The Dakar 2000 goal of Education For All (EFA) is at the center of UNESCO's education activities worldwide. The wide-ranging efforts to achieve EFA in many countries involve education reform, development strategies and plans. Decentralization, a major component in modernizing the public sector, is also applicable to the education sector. The handbook offers an introduction and step-by-step guidelines on planning tools that aim to assist education administrators in planning and decision making for education policy, on both national and local levels. The handbook contains a detailed coverage on the Analysis and Projection Model (ANPRO Model) based on a planning concept and tool which has been applied jointly by the Ministry of Education in Viet Nam and UNESCO in 2003-2004. ANPRO Model is a data-based tool that analyzes the educator sector (and sub-sectors) and projects the student population and required budgets and resources. Education administrators are strongly encouraged to leverage planning tools such as the ANPRO Model prior to policy planning and implementation, in addition to the monitoring and review cycle. The handbook also includes the ANPRO Model, population and graphical analytical tools, and a monitoring plan in Excel. [Published by the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.]