Public Expenditure Review of the Education Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo : An Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity Analysis
A sound education sector is fundamental for the economic, social, and political transformation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC has achieved significant progress in its education sector over the last decade, demonstrating strong r...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25189800/public-expenditure-review-education-sector-democratic-republic-congo-efficiency-effectiveness-equity-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22932 |
| Summary: | A sound education sector is fundamental
for the economic, social, and political transformation of
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC has achieved
significant progress in its education sector over the last
decade, demonstrating strong resilience following a
particularly violent period in its history. The DRC’s
development trajectory will depend on its ability to reap
the benefits of it resource-rich territory, which will
require large investments in human capital to transition to
an economy based on improved productivity, innovation, and
technology. The DRC’s population has a very large youth
cohort and reaping the benefits of the demographic dividend
requires ensuring that sufficient funding is allocated to
address priority issues at all levels of education. The
three tenets of education investments can be summarized as
follows: invest early, invest smartly, and invest for all.
This report is organized into following sections: section
one gives introduction, section two discusses the country
context in terms of demographic dividends and available
fiscal space for increasing social sector demand. Section
three provides an overview of the education sector context
including a chronological order of education sector
policies, goals, priorities, and structure. Section four
analyzes key indicators of education sector performance.
Section five analyzes education sector financing including
budget framework and process, the key actors, sources of
funding, trends of public expenditure, budget allocation and
execution, equity, affordability, and unit cost analyses.
Section six examines education sector management issues
focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of resources
utilization. Section seven presents summary of main findings
and policy recommendations. The annex section is divided
into four segments including a methodological note,
supporting tables, figures, and boxes for the sections. |
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