School-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the past
decade. Our SBM work program emerged out of a need to define the concept more clearly,
review the evidence, support impact assessments in various countries, and provide some
initial feedback to teams preparing education projects. During first phase of the SBM work
program, the team undertook a detailed stocktaking of the existing literature on SBM. At
the same time we identified several examples of SBM reforms that we are now supporting
through ongoing impact assessments. An online toolkit providing some general principles
that can broadly be applied to the implementation of SBM reforms has been developed and
can be accessed on http://www.worldbank.org/education/economicsed.