The Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Social Sectors Division (RSAN) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) education committee and network commissioned SEAMEO INNOTECH to investigate the distribution of effective schools across Asian region and see whether public and private, large and small, rural and urban, coed and single gender schools are servicing their communities efficiently. Using the International Association for Education Achievement (IEA) public release data banks of school achievement among 13 year-olds in Asia as bases for the study, the Center shall prepare database files for analysis and presentation of findings in 12 country reports. The countries are the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, Turkey, and New Zealand.