Equitable Access to Education and Learning Project

The USAID DRC Office of Education and DFID DRC will support a primary education activity to improve equitable access to education and learning outcomes for children in the DRC. This activity will primarily target the provinces of: Katanga, Kasai Occidental, and Equator. Activities under this Contract shall target all schools within a geographic education district or religious network, Efforts to support access for out of school youth related to accelerated learning programs shall target South Kivu and North Kivu as well. The activities under this Contract shall support improved learning outcomes in the government public primary schools and schools supported by religious networks which are recognized by the GDRC.

The Results and Intermediate Results (IR) of this Contract support the USAID/DRC Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Objective of "Long-term transition to more effective and empowering development in the DRC supported" and the objective of DFID's Country Operational Plan for the DRC to work with the "Government to enable it to provide and finance basic services in the long-term."