Operational Plan

Also referred to as a multiyear action plan (generally of two or three years), and sometimes referred to as an implementation plan, MOOC Module 5 states that an operational plan “supports operationalizing the Education Sector Plan over the medium-term… [and that the] development of a robust multiyear action plan increases the probability of successful implementation because the plan specifies not only the entity responsible for implementation of each activity but also each activity’s timing, cost, sources of financing and related outputs”. The operational plan is also referred to as an implementation plan or action plan. As noted in MOOC Module 5 (p. 18), in countries with effective annual operational plans, there is a tendency to not have multi-year action plans. For the purposes of this toolkit, we will refer to “operational plan”, “action plan” or “multi-year action plan” interchangeably, though noting that some countries also have annual operational plans.