As part of the “Students Acting for Accountability and Quality Education Project, CERC held a second consultative workshop with 12 senior officials of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education to discuss the challenges of transparency and accountability in the education sector.

Embedding Integrity clubs in secondary schools as well the integrity education manual in the national curriculum were at the heart of discussion with these senior officials, who supported and praised this innovative approach to instilling integrity values in school-age children.

Diverse other topics were discussed, including the deployment in the coming months of our mobile application “EduCheck” allowing students to collect data on transparency, on students and parents participation in school management and on education services delivery challenges in their own schools.

Closing the session, participants praised the integrity building project implemented by CERC in South Kivu since 2017 and its extension in Kinshasa schools where corruption has taken up residence. They also recommended broadening discussions with other government bodies such as the Ministry of Budget and the Ministry of Finance, stressing that they are much more concerned with the financing of the education sector.