Rwanda - Rehabilitation of primary schools and of the the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology

The main challenges confronting the country and which this project seeks to address are the lack of skills exacerbated by the 1994 genocide and the very limited intake capacity of primary schools. In a context of national reconstruction, the authorities adopted a strategy aimed at reconstituting the stock of human resources destroyed by the war. Thus, with the support of development partners, the Government carried out an overall sector study and a pre-investment study in technical education. The Project is a major contribution to the implementation of the Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP 2006-2010) that prioritizes Basic Education over 9 years in which a major constraint is the insufficiency of classrooms. The Bank finances ESSP via a sectoral budget support to be disbursed in four tranches between 2007 and 2010. The Bank approved a Project in 2008 aimed at consolidating the gains of the Education III Project in terms of training in scientific and technological skills at the higher level. With regard to infrastructure (construction and equipping of primary schools and DPDs) and the procurement of school textbooks, the Project took into account the activities of other partners (World Bank, Belgian Cooperation) and operations undertaken within the framework of sectoral budget support in carrying out complementary actions in order to avoid duplications.