Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) on the 15-Year Free Education Program: Kingdom of Thailand

As part of the study on how to improve the efficiency and fairness of Thailand's educational expenditure, a survey targeting at the 15 Year Free Education Scheme (free-education subsidy from early childhood levels to the completion of basic education) was carried out by the Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University and UNICEF Thailand. By applying the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS), a survey tool used in many countries, to examine the extent of benefits that reached targeted beneficiaries, the survey was helpful in identifying the programme's financial and management limitations, increasing the transparency in the allocation of resources to schools, together with engaging parents and the civic sector in the supervision of programme spending.