28. the commission’s recent staff working document ‘more and better education in developing countries’ acknowledges that demographic growth is a factor to be taken into account. special report no 12/2010 – EU development assistance for basic education in sub-saharan Africa and south Asia 79 29. the commission agrees with the court that using a combination of financing modalities enables a strengthened response to the needs of ‘hard to reach’ children. box 2 – namibia: the education sector programme does not sufficiently focus on the poorest the commission’s support to namibia under the 9th European Development fund required monitoring of ‘prior actions’ which focused on equity objectives. the issue of the ‘school Development fund’ and ‘Education Development fund’ have been raised in all annual reviews. the introduction of new systems (school profiling and early grade reading assessment) have been agreed upon through dialogue and their implementation is now supported within the framework of the 10th EDf sector policy support programme (spsp). bangladesh: the support to non-formal primary education project gives quality primary education to hard-to-reach children the commission welcomes the positive observations of the court regarding the EU-funded non-formal education project in Bangladesh. rEplY of thE commission 30. the fast track initiative (fti) is a global initiative that aims to improve: the quality of national education sector policies, efficiency of expenditure, capacity development, donor coordination, harmonisation and alignment as well as mobilising financing in support of endorsed sector plans. the fti financing mechanisms (trust funds) are an important but relatively small part of the overall financing available at either country or especially global level. the conclusions of the fti evaluation report result mainly from looking at aggregate figures at global level, and not from analysing and drawing conclusions on specific fti countries or subgroups of fti countries. concerning the issue of ‘inherent tension of the fti’s focus on primary education and the broader Education for All (EfA) goals’, the situation has changed. the fti Board decided in its meeting of 5 and 6 may 2010, that (i) in policy dialogue, technical assistance and capacity development, the fti will address the whole sector and (ii) that the fti catalytic fund (a multi-donor trust fund of the fti) support will cover all EfA goals. 
79 29. kommissionen håller med revisionsrätten om att en mix av finansieringsformer gör det möjligt att bättre tillgodose behoven hos de barn som är ”svåra att nå”. ruta 2 – namibia: Programmet för utbildningssektorn är inte tillräckligt inriktat på de fattigaste Ett villkor för kommissionens stöd till namibia under nionde EUf var övervakning av ”förhandsåtgärder”, som inriktades på jäm-likhetsmål. frågan om ”skolutvecklingsfon-derna” och ”Utvecklingsfonden för utbildning” har tagits upp i de årliga översynerna. införandet av nya system (skolprofilering och bedömningar av läsinlärning) har överenskommits genom dialog, och genomförandet stöds nu inom ramen för det sektorpolitiska stödprogrammet (sector Policy support Programme, sPsP) under tionde EUf. bangladesh: med stödet till projektet för informell primärutbildning ges primärutbildning av hög kvalitet till barn som är svåra att nå kommissionen välkomnar revisionsrättens positiva anmärkningar om det EU-finansierade projektet för informell primärutbildning i bangladesh. kommissionEns svAr 30.