Book Description
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces immense challenges in delivering education services to all children of school age in the country, let alone ensuring that those adults who were deprived of an education have the opportunity to remedy that loss. Dictatorship, economic decline, more than a decade{u2019}s civil war and endemic corruption have unsurprisingly left an education system that is catastrophically failing the nation{u2019}s children, with consequences for the national economy as well as for the individuals concerned. To overcome this educational deficit, a massive increase in the education budget will be necessary to pay for the expansion of teacher training, the development and distribution of teaching materials including books, the construction of new schools and the improvement of the conditions of work for teachers, especially those in remote areas of the country. But the findings of the report on which this paper is based (Effective Delivery of Public Education Services) suggest that the government must even more importantly act to ensure that additional funds will be correctly spent.