EDUCATION III

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The Education Sector Rehabilitation Project has the following two main objectives: (a) to help the Government implement its sector education strategy to restore the conditions needed for long-term balanced development of a more viable and adequately financed education sector; and (b) to stop the deterioration and improve the quality of primary education, by taking immediate steps to increase the availability of main education inputs. The project has three components: (a) support to the Government's Sectoral Strategy; (b) promotion of quality, efficiency and coverage of education - especially primary education; and (c) institutional reinforcement. The project has two main objectives: (a) to stop the deteriorati quality in primary education, and to boost it by taking immediate step increase the availability of key educational inputs; and (b) to help t government to restore the conditions for a balanced long-term developm more viable and adequately financed education sector. The project con three components. (1) Support to the government's sectoral strategy t (a) technical assistance to the Committee for Sectoral Strategy (CSS); strengthening of the MEPSP' planning and programming capabilities. (2 Promotion of quality, efficiency and equity in primary eduation, throu the provision of basic textbooks and teacher guides; (b) in-service tr associated with textbooks; (c) rehabilitation of the local education environment in Haut-Zaire; and (d) construction of about five primary on the crowded periphery of Kinshasa. (3) Institutional reinforcement (a) rationalizing working conditions of the central administrative sta (office consolidation, training, computerization and technical assista the teacher pay unit, the office of statistics and the primary educati unit); and (b) improving work conditions at local levels (training and equipment of administrators and supervisors).