To get a picture of the impact of the current economic and financial crisis on educational building
programmes so far, the OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) has been conducting
a survey of member countries and regions. The survey focuses on three main issues: the impact of
the crisis on publicly funded projects, the impact on projects funded by private finance initiatives or
through a public-private partnership, and the extent to which the crisis has affected the construction
industry’s ability to build schools.
