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Purpose and Scope

Education Policy Formulation, Ministerial Plans and Budget Preparation, Monitoring and Evaluation Educational Research and Statistics and School Maintenance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Education Policy Formulation, Analysis and Review;
• Preparation of Ministerial Plans/programmes and Annual Budgets;
• Monitoring and Evaluation of implementation of development plans/programmes and projects;
• Educational Research and Research clearance;
• Education management Information Systems (EMIS) and basic Education Statistics;
• External Finance Mobilization;
• Physical Planning, Designs and School/College Maintenance;
• Preparation and Reviews of Cabinet papers

Policy and Planning Leadership since independence

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These responsibilities are performed under the following sections:

• Policy, Research and EMIS which includes Education Statistics:
• Formulating Ministerial/Sectoral Policies in accordance with Macro-policy frameworks;
• Monitoring implementation of the Ministerial/sectoral policy;
• Review of existing policies so as to correspond to macro-policies;
• Conducting and coordinating educational research;
• Disseminating Research findings to stakeholders;
• Collecting and analyzing basic education statistics;
• Managing the Ministry’s Education management Systems (EMIS);
• Preparing and Review of cabinet papers.

Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring and Evaluation

• Preparing Ministerial plans and Annual Budgets;
• Formulating programmes and projects;
• Preparing the Ministry’s Annual Budget Speeches;
• Monitoring and Evaluation of implementation of programmes and projects;
• Coordinating the allocation and distribution of teaching-learning materials and processing of manuscripts for evaluation by the Educational Materials Coordination Committee (EMAC);

Physical Planning and School Maintenance

• Preparing architectural designs and drawings for schools and college buildings;
• Inspecting and carrying out preventive maintenance of school/college buildings;
• Carrying out supervision of construction and rehabilitation works.
• Designing furniture for schools/colleges;
• Topographical surveys on existing schools/colleges and new sites;
• Preparing tender documents, advertisements, analysis and tender reports for the Ministerial tender Board.

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