DRH (Index: 81)

ESTABLISHMENT

It was established by Decree-Law No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 laying down the organic framework for standard structures with horizontal competences common to all central administrations of ministries, institutions and public services.

ROLE AND MISSIONS

The role and missions of the DRH consist in integrated human resources management for the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST), in accordance with the human resources strategy laid down by the Ministry of the Civil Service.

More specifically, they are to:

• Manage the human resources of the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education in accordance with the integrated human resources management strategy laid down by the Ministry of the Civil Service;
• Ensure skills development for the human resources of the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education;
• Contribute to forward planning of jobs, headcount and skills for the human resources of the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education;
• Contribute to developing policies and strategies for human resources management;
• Ensure application of the Statute and legislative and regulatory texts relating to State human resources management;
• Put in place optimal working conditions for staff and monitor them;
• Support all other services of the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education on matters relating to human resources management;
• Ensure, together with the competent services of the Ministry of the Civil Service, implementation of the organic framework and structures and of the job repository;
• Promote social dialogue and interpersonal communication within the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education;
• Organise and promote social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities for human resources.

DAF (Index: 82)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Administrative and Financial Directorate (DAF) stems from Decree No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 laying down the organic framework for standard structures with horizontal competences common to all central administrations of ministries, institutions and public services.

This decree creates four (4) standard directorates, including the Administrative and Financial Directorate.

MISSIONS

The DAF has the following missions:

• To manage financial and material resources and logistics of the ministry, institution or public service;
• To prepare budget forecasts together with all other services of the ministry, institution or public service;
• To ensure commitment of expenditure, liquidation and payment orders within budget execution for the ministry, institution or public service;
• To manage movable and immovable property of the ministry, institution or public service;
• To maintain inventories of movable and immovable property of the ministry, institution or public service;
• To ensure compliance with and monitoring of implementation of administrative procedures relating to financial and budgetary management and logistics;
• To provide advisory support to all other services of the ministry, institution or public service on finance, budget and logistics;
• To participate in public procurement;
• To work with competent ministries (Finance, Budget, Plan, Public Works and Infrastructure) on financial, budgetary and logistics management;
• To maintain administrative accounts;
• To produce periodic budget execution reports and the general activity report.

ORGANISATION CHART

The Administrative and Financial Directorate comprises:

1 Director, 3 Division Heads, 8 Bureau Heads, 8 First-Class Administrative Attachés, 5 Second-Class Administrative Attachés, 6 First-Class Administrative Agents, 5 Second-Class Administrative Agents, 1 Bailiff, total 37.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Administrative and Financial Directorate is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and Office des Routes, next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Gombe commune in central Kinshasa.

Email: daf@minepst.gouv.cd

DEP (Index: 83)

DIRECTORATE OF STUDIES AND PLANNING (DEP)

LOCATION

The Directorate of Studies and Planning (DEP) is located at the intersection of Ambassadors and Clinics avenues, at the entrance to Shark Club, Kinshasa/Gombe.

ESTABLISHMENT

The DEP was created by the Prime Minister’s decree No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 laying down the organic framework for standard structures with horizontal competences common to all central administrations of ministries, institutions and public services. (INDEX 83)

MISSIONS OF THE DIRECTORATE

The missions of the DEP are to align new practices within the public administration based on:

• Conducting studies (sub-sector diagnostics);
• Consolidating and publishing statistical data;
• Monitoring implementation of reforms;
• Strategic and operational planning (contributing to the National Strategic Development Plan and sector strategies);
• Partner relations and seeking additional funding for the ministry;
• Budgeting and programming;
• Monitoring and evaluation.

OPERATION / ORGANISATION CHART

The DEP has a Director (Head of Service) and three divisions:

1. Division of studies, documentation and information: two bureaus: studies, analysis and foresight; information and documentation;
2. Division of strategy and international cooperation: two bureaus: strategy; international cooperation;
3. Division of programmes and monitoring: two bureaus: programmes; monitoring and evaluation.

A secretariat, six bureau attachés and one bailiff may also be attached to these divisions.

MAIN OUTPUTS

• Biennial Budgeted Action Plan (PABB 24/25 from SSEF16-25);
• Annual Performance Project (PAP);
• Compilation of Annual Performance Review tools;
• Ministry synthesis report;
• Follow-up plan for APR recommendations;
• Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (CDMT 23–25);
• Public Investment Programme (PIP 24–27);
• 2025 investment budget;
• Consolidated PAO documents for central services and PROVEDS;
• Capacity building for provincial staff in planning and PAO preparation.

DIRECTORS AT THE HEAD OF THE DEP

• Zuka Mondo Georges: 2017 to 2021
• Lumengo Amwita Michel: from 2021 to date

CONTACT

Email: dep@minepst.gouv.cd

DANTIC (Index: 84)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of Archives and New Information and Communication Technologies stems from Decree No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 laying down the organic framework for standard structures with horizontal competences common to all central administrations of ministries, institutions and public services.

MISSIONS

Its main mission is to modernise administration management through new information and communication technologies, in line with e-government, e-administration and e-governance requirements and objectives, reduce administrative burden and maximise time savings in processing administrative files, and thus dematerialise the education system of the Ministry through sectoral digitalisation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Directorate of Archives and New Information and Communication Technologies (DANTIC) has the following responsibilities:

• Collection, centralisation and management of files eligible for archiving from various ministry services;
• Establishment and management of the library, photo library, film library and ministry data bank;
• Collection, centralisation, processing, dissemination and retention of information from various ministry services;
• Production of directories and compilations of management acts;
• Reprography of various reports, documents and other files at the request of the Secretary General of the Ministry;
• Studies, design and development of software;
• Digitalisation of ministry services;
• Creation, deployment and development of the ministry website;
• Management of the ministry IT network;
• Management of the administration’s communication activities on IT networks;
• IT upskilling of ministry human resources;
• Maintenance and operation of software and IT equipment of the Ministry.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Archives and New Information and Communication Technologies (DANTIC) is located at No. 3 Ambassadors Avenue, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

Email: dantic@minepst.gouv.cd

Directorate of School Administration (DAS)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of School Administration (DAS) operates within the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship. It was created in 1975.

Two years later, in 1977, it was renamed Directorate of Administration of General and Normal Education (DAEGN) with index 82.

In 2017 it resumed its former title, “Directorate of School Administration”, with index 85.

The Directorates of Private Education Administration, Special Education, and Sports and Leisure were formerly divisions within the current school administration directorate.

MISSIONS

The DAS is responsible for:

• Producing the school calendar annually;
• Drawing up annual instructions on school fees;
• Drafting ministerial orders on updating the school map (creation, split, merger, structural change);
• Developing standards and guidelines on administrative and pedagogical organisation of schools;
• Organising the annual performance review at national level;
• Following up on recommendations from the annual review conference;
• Drafting and disseminating the national school administration manual (compilation of harmonised tools and administrative procedures, report formats, etc.);
• Allocating subsidies and equipment for boarding schools;
• Updating directories of public pre-primary, primary, general secondary and normal schools according to legal instruments;
• Collecting and consolidating (by sub-division, province and nationally) administrative information (strengths, weaknesses, challenges) related to education system reforms: basic education, free basic education, teaching in national languages…
• Processing various administrative correspondence.

STRUCTURE

The Directorate of School Administration comprises 4 divisions and 15 bureaus as follows:

General services division

It has four bureaus:

• Bureau for school organisation and regulation;
• Bureau for socio-cultural issues and liaison with other international organisations;
• Bureau for organisation and regulation of promotion;
• Bureau for human resources.

Primary and pre-primary education division

It has four bureaus:

• Bureau for primary schools Pool I;
• Bureau for primary schools Pool II;
• Bureau for primary schools Pool III;
• Bureau for public pre-primary schools Pool IV.

General and normal secondary education division

It has three bureaus:

• Bureau for secondary schools Pool I;
• Bureau for secondary schools Pool II;
• Bureau for secondary schools Pool III.

Subsidies and non-didactic materials division

It has four bureaus including:

• Bureau for budget preparation;
• Bureau for regulation and management of subsidies;
• Bureau for documentation and archives;
• Bureau for inventories and assets.

ORGANISATION CHART

The Directorate of School Administration (DAS) is headed by a Director (Head of Service). The directorate secretariat includes protocol, mail and an IT pool.

There are four division heads (CD):

Division head for general issues: manages four bureaus:

• Bureau for school organisation and regulation;
• Bureau for socio-cultural issues and liaison with other international organisations;
• Bureau for organisation and regulation of promotion;
• Bureau for human resources.

Division head for primary and pre-primary schools: manages:

• Bureau for primary schools pool I;
• Bureau for primary schools pool II;
• Bureau for primary schools pool III;
• Bureau for pre-primary schools pool IV.

Division head for general and normal secondary schools: manages:

• Bureau for secondary schools pool I;
• Bureau for secondary schools pool II;
• Bureau for secondary schools pool III.

Division head for subsidies and didactic equipment: manages:

• Bureau for budget preparation;
• Bureau for regulation and management of subsidies;
• Bureau for documentation and archives;
• Bureau for asset inventories;
• Bureau for control of legal instruments.

HEADS OF SERVICE AT THE DAS:

• Ms AZARI MPOKO Suzanne;
• Mr IKETE EBALE BELOTSHI Nicolas;
• Mr IDAKO;
• Mr BAY NUMBI Wilfrid;
• Mr LIKOKO EZOKO MATA LIKENGE Bernard;
• Mr SANGASO AYABUAWE Michel;
• Ms PIKININI WAKUSOMBA Monique;
• Mr BOBE NGANDI YAOOTO Henri;
• Ms INZUN ONSAKATOM Mathilde;
• Mr LULENGA MUTUNGILAY Martin;
• Mr VIMINDE NGBANGO KOTA KOLI;
• Mr LIKOKO BOMOLO NDUKUMA Guy-Didier.

Note that the Directorate of School Administration operates on an operational action plan (PAO) evaluated at the end of each year. For 2022–2023, 60% of set objectives were achieved.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of School Administration (DAS) is located at the intersection of Parliament and Office des Routes avenues, on the premises of the general secretariat of the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

Email: das@minepst.gouv.cd
Tel.: +243847724444

DRIE (Index: 87)

DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATIONAL REFORMS AND INNOVATIONS (DRIE)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of Educational Reforms and Innovations (DRIE) emerged from the former National Reform Commission (CNR) for primary and secondary education (departmental order DEPS/CCE/001/083 of 26/08/1983).

The order was updated and the directorate began operating as a normative service with administrative and technical character for the ministry of primary, secondary and technical education under ministerial order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/0012/2007 of 26/01/2007.

It is therefore part of the organic framework of the EPST ministry today and reports directly to the General Secretariat, which coordinates administrative and technical action for the ministry.

MISSIONS

The directorate of educational reforms and innovations has as its main mission to design, develop and implement the policy of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education; it is the advisory body on normalisation and standardisation of educational reforms and innovations and day-to-day management of national expertise in this field.

Under its constitutive order, Article 23, the directorate of educational reforms and innovations, as a normative service of the EPSP ministry in the field of reforms and innovations, is recognised as present on all internal structures or bodies to take, channel and finalise initiatives aimed at improving the performance of the Congolese education system.

Article 24 provides that the directorate exercises oversight over all reform and innovation projects, in a spirit of sincere cooperation and close collaboration with other normative, technical and specialised services of the ministry.

In this way, the directorate of educational reforms and innovations is a cross-cutting service.

STRUCTURE AND OPERATION

The structure of the directorate of educational reforms and innovations comprises:

• The director (head of service) office responsible for supervising and coordinating the directorate’s activities;
• The secretariat;
• Four administrative and technical divisions and nine bureaus:
  • Reforms division for administration and education financing;
  • Reforms division for the pedagogical field;
  • Reforms division for access to education;
  • Social mobilisation division.

HEADS OF SERVICE TO DATE

• Current Head of Service: Sylvain OTAKA TAMBWE

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The directorate of educational reforms and innovations (DRIE) is located at No. 8 Syndicat Avenue, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

Email: drie@minepst.gouv.cd

DIPROMAD (Index: 88)

DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL PROGRAMMES AND TEACHING MATERIALS (DIPROMAD)

LOCATION

The Directorate of School Programmes and Teaching Materials (DIPROMAD) is located at No. 3 Ambassadors Avenue, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of School Programmes and Teaching Materials was established under Order No. 0049/90 of 5 March 1990 and circular note No. 00259/90 of 05/03/1990 on reorganisation. (INDEX 88)

MISSIONS OF THE DIRECTORATE

• Design and develop policy and strategy projects relating to programmes, school textbooks and teaching materials;
• Ensure piloting and dissemination of school programmes;
• Implement the national school textbook policy;
• Produce and disseminate teaching materials.

OPERATION / ORGANISATION CHART

DIPROMAD is headed by a Director (Head of Service). The directorate comprises six divisions:

Pre-primary and primary education division: three bureaus: school programmes, school textbooks, and piloting and evaluation;

Secondary education division: three bureaus: school programmes, textbooks, and piloting and evaluation;

Publishing, production and dissemination of teaching materials division: three bureaus: publishing, design and training; production and maintenance; dissemination and promotion;

Documentation and school media division: four bureaus: journals; radio and TV; documentation; equipment and maintenance;

Centre for Research and Dissemination of Pedagogical Information (CEREDIP) division: fifteen cells: information and publishing; technical and printing; dissemination, production and sales; English; arts and women’s trades; biology and natural sciences; chemistry; French and national languages; geography; history and social sciences; physics and technology; mathematics; pedagogy and training; agriculture; commercial sciences;

Health and Environment Education at School Programme division: four bureaus: training, teaching tools, awareness-raising and logistics.

In addition to these six divisions there is an assistant manager and a secretary.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

• Upgrading literacy sub-branches to full branches;
• Promoting teaching and learning in national languages;
• Design, production and distribution of pupil textbooks and teacher guides in national languages;
• Design of Science Learning Domain (DAS) programmes;
• Implementation of 7th- and 8th-year basic education programmes;
• Implementation of the healthy school programme;
• Digitisation of teacher continuing education modules.

DIRECTORS AT THE HEAD OF DIPROMAD

• Mr Jonas MWILAMBWE WA NKULU, 1960 to 1965;
• Mr NZAMU KWEREKA, 1965 to 1970;
• Mr Baudouin NGOMBE, 1970 to 1974;
• Mr André KAMBWA, 1974 to 1977;
• Mr MPIUTU NE MBODI, 1977 to 1980;
• Mr KALENDA MUTELWA, 1980 to 1981;
• Mr MUSUNGU MVULA, 1981 to 1982;
• Mr Lambert LWAMBA LWA NEMBA, 1982 to 1988;
• Ms Martine GULUNGANA GAPOZO, 1988 to 1996;
• Mr Joseph MATINDI BADILA, 1996 to 2003;
• Mr Comas MENGO ON’KAMADJOMBA, 2003 to 2004;
• Ms Mathilde INZUN ON’SAK’ATOM, 2004 to 2006;
• Mr Timothée NLANDU MABULA KINKELA, 2006 to 2009;
• Ms Anne Marie NZUMBA NTEMBA LUVEFU, 2009 to 2016;
• Mr Timothée NLANDU MABULA KINKELA, 2016 to 2021;
• Mr Guillaume KOROGO ALOKOA, from 2021 to date.

CONTACT

Email: dipromad@minepst.gouv.cd

DCI (Index: 89)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of International Cooperation was created by Presidential Ordinance No. 82/13-027 of 19 March 1982 establishing the organic frameworks of the departments of the executive council and the general planning commission.

In 1991, this directorate was restructured through Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/001/01960/91 of 31 December 1991 on restructuring the directorate of international cooperation of the EPSP ministry at the time.

MISSIONS

Among other missions, the DCI:

• Maintains the register and monitors cooperation agreements and conventions linking the DRC with other States in pre-primary, primary, secondary and technical education;
• Initiates and drafts projects for agreements and conventions on international cooperation in the EPST sub-sector;
• Maintains ongoing contacts with bilateral and multilateral cooperation missions and international cooperation agencies and prepares all related files;
• Promotes international pedagogical exchanges for development of the education system in the sub-sector;
• Participates in meetings of large joint technical commissions with other States;
• Monitors Congolese consular schools abroad;
• Seeks, mobilises and coordinates external support for the sub-sector;
• Facilitates obtaining passports and visas in particular for ministers with EPST in their portfolios and cabinet members, as well as for all other ministry staff and managers;
• Ensures EPST participation in international organisation programmes and follow-up of dues owed in particular to: UNESCO, UNICEF, ADEA, CONFEMEN, USAID, UKAID; and for certain projects, e.g. PERSE.

OPERATION

The DCI is headed by a director (head of service) with a directorate secretariat. There are three divisions:

• Agreements and conventions division: bilateral cooperation, multilateral cooperation and international pedagogical exchanges;
• External support division: mobilisation and monitoring of external support;
• Organisation programmes division: ministerial meetings and dues owed to organisations.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The directorate of international cooperation (DCI) of the EPST ministry is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and Office des Routes, next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cabinet, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

Email: dci@minepst.gouv.cd

DINACOPE (Index: 92)

ESTABLISHMENT

The teacher payroll and control service “SECOPE”, now the National Directorate of Control, Payroll Preparation and Staffing of Teachers and Administrative Staff of School Establishments (DINACOPE), arose from the government’s commitment under the structural adjustment policy advocated by the Bretton Woods institutions from the 1980s onwards, in the area of staffing and payroll control.

From 1982 onwards, efforts in this area across the various directorates of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education had not fully achieved their objective.

In response, the Minister (then Commissioner of State) for primary, secondary and vocational education convened the Nganda centre in 1984 to define secondary school structures and the related staffing (schools, offices, pupils, teachers and administrative staff).

Work at the Catholic Nganda centre, supported by Belgian technical cooperation, led to a specialised system for rationalising staffing in primary, secondary and vocational education, which in 1985 became the current teacher payroll and control service “SECOPE”, and was converted in 2023 into the Directorate of Control and Teacher Payroll, DINACOPE.

FROM SECOPE TO DINACOPE

On Thursday 2 February 2023 the Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, Tony Mwaba, signed an order transforming the teacher payroll and control service into the National Directorate of Control, Payroll Preparation and Staffing of Teachers and Administrative Staff of School Establishments (DINACOPE), with the aim of revitalising this key structure in teacher staffing management.

MISSIONS

To ensure effective management of mechanisation and budgeting of staff in public nursery, primary, secondary and vocational establishments by:

• Checking file compliance (secondary establishment) before mechanisation;
• Controlling staffing before each payroll and linking with staff mobility through permanent physical checks of agents in their secondary establishments;
• Regularising transfers, moves and replacements;
• Mechanising new schools and new teachers.

To manage a reliable and secure database on payroll and careers of teachers and administrative staff in public nursery, primary, secondary and vocational establishments in order to:

• Ensure and share payroll for staff of public nursery, primary, secondary and vocational establishments;
• Produce payroll statistics;
• Provide data needed for human resources management in the Ministry;
• Monitor payroll for teachers and administrative staff of public nursery, primary, secondary and vocational establishments.

This mission is shared with the Ministry of Budget and the Ministry of Finance (Treasury and authorising officer).

All these missions can be summed up in one: manage teachers’ careers, control staffing and prepare for the government a payroll that reflects the reality of school establishments.

OPERATION, ORGANISATION CHART, DEPARTMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

DINACOPE is a technical directorate of the central administration of primary, secondary and vocational education. It operates under the supervision of the Secretary General for Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education. Its staff are organised under the reform framework, which includes:

• One national directorate;
• Forty-eight (48) provincial directors;
• Branches (670) or local entities—one or more branches per territory.

At national level

The national directorate of control, payroll preparation and staffing of teachers and administrative staff of school establishments is headed by a Director (head of service), called the national director–head of service, assisted by four directors:

• A director for administration and finance;
• A director for information systems;
• A director for internal control;
• A director for mechanisation and payroll.

At provincial level

The national directorate of control, payroll preparation and staffing of teachers and administrative staff of school establishments is headed by a provincial DINACOPE director (DIPROCOPE).

At local level

The national directorate of control, payroll preparation and staffing of teachers and administrative staff of school establishments is headed by a branch head assisted by a deputy branch head.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate is located in Gombe commune, Kinshasa, at the intersection of Batetela and Clinique Avenues, in the same building as the EPST Minister’s office.

Tel.: +243 843305555
Email: dinacope@minepst.gouv.cd

DINAC (Index: 93)

ESTABLISHMENT

DINAC was created by ministerial order No. 00646/92 of 29 April 1992 amending order Min EPST /CAB MIN /001/0970/91 of 26 July 1991. Before 2022 it was called the Directorate of School Infrastructure (DIS) of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education.

From 29 March 2022, under order 036/022, the Directorate of School Infrastructure (DIS) became the National Directorate of Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Management of School Infrastructure, DINAC. Among the reasons for this change was that DIS was limited to the provincial level while many tasks had to be carried out at national level. DINAC therefore also handles national-level works.

MISSIONS

DINAC’s objectives are:

• To initiate and promote, with the competent services of the Ministry of Public Works, Urban Planning and Housing, studies of architectural plans for civil engineering, specific techniques and school units suited to national educational spaces and the use of local materials;
• To manage existing school infrastructure;
• To maintain administrative buildings and other property belonging to EPST;
• To prepare, programme, defend and monitor budgets for construction, rehabilitation and equipping of school infrastructure.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The National Directorate of Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Management of School Infrastructure (DINAC) is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and the Roads Office Avenue, Gombe commune, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tel.: +243 843065555
Email: dinac@minepst.gouv.cd

DASP (Index: 94)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of School Sports and Extracurricular Activities (DASP) was created under Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/001/0793/91 of 19 June 1991 as the Directorate of Games, Leisure and School Sports (DJLSS). It was amended by Order No. MINEPSP/CAB/MIN/001/02233/92 of 25 July 1992 creating the Directorate of School Sports and Extracurricular Activities.

Legal instruments on the Directorate’s creation also include Ordinance No. 15/015 of 21 March on extracurricular activities (cultural, sports, leisure and games) in educational establishments and the framework law No. 14/004 of 11 February 2014 on National Education, which states in Article 187: National Education organises extracurricular and para-academic activities, including sports, theatre, cinema and excursions, to promote the full development of the learner or pupil.

MISSIONS

The Directorate of School Sports and Extracurricular Activities (DASP) has the ultimate mission of promoting cultural and sports activities in schools in their “educational, cultural, economic, political and social functions, which are essential channels for civic and moral socialisation, strengthening national cohesion and socio-economic development” for the full development of the learner—here the pupil at the centre of education—in accordance with the framework law on National Education.

This mission gives the Directorate the following responsibilities:

• Organise, develop, control and promote sports, cultural, recreational and manual activities in schools in the DRC;
• Set standards for extracurricular activities;
• Manage school sports facilities nationwide;
• Promote physical education and sport as a pedagogical action;
• Plan development of all school sports disciplines;
• Ensure regular participation of pupils in conferences and training at national and international level;
• Work to identify young talent and strengthen the national sports elite;
• Promote respect and sports ethics and take measures to protect school athletes’ nutrition and physical and moral health;
• Provide ongoing training for school technical and administrative supervisors;
• Organise school games;
• Cooperate with the Ministry of Sports through national federations;
• Disseminate UNESCO’s amended international charter on physical education and sport;
• Introduce health booklets in schools;
• Organise national and African inter-school championships;
• Train physical education teachers in all provinces;
• Retrain qualified teachers;
• Train heads of sports and culture cells at sub-division and provincial education level;
• Review school physical education and sport curricula;
• Carry out evaluation and supervision missions in provinces;
• Strengthen managerial capacity of DASP staff and managers;
• Revitalise physical education and sport as expressed by CONFEJES and CONFEMEN, ensuring adequate time allocation in the general timetable.

OPERATION

The Directorate of School Sports and Extracurricular Activities (DASP) rests on a structured organisational framework.

It comprises a Director (head of service), a secretary and four divisions: school sports; administration and finance; games and leisure; and sports regulation and legislation.

The Directorate has staff and managers in all 26 provinces and in the Ministry’s 60 education divisions (divisions and sub-divisions).

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of School Sports and Extracurricular Activities (DASP) is located on the parent ministry’s premises, at the intersection of Batetela and Clinique Avenues, Gombe commune—specifically within the Shark Club XI sports complex.

Email: dasp@minepst.gouv.cd

DIFORE-BG (Index: 95)

ESTABLISHMENT (LEGAL INSTRUMENT, YEAR, CONTEXT)

DIFORE-BG was created on 7 April 2016 by Ministerial Order No. CABMIN/FP/PIM/SGA/SGPOM/GMK/015/2016 of the Minister of State, Minister of the Civil Service.

Under reform of the Congolese public administration, and in line with the Education and Training Sector Strategy 2016–2025, the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education established the Directorate for Teacher Training and School Management Offices (DIFORE-BG).

This Directorate is central to reform of initial and continuing teacher training.

MISSIONS (PURPOSE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES)

The objective is to professionalise the teaching profession by providing the Congolese education system with professional teachers and managers.

This will be achieved through:

• Reform of initial teacher training for the first six years of basic education on two axes: reorganisation of pedagogical humanities and creation of Institutes for Training in Teaching Professions (IFME);
• Strengthening system governance through continuing training of management office staff.

Its main missions are:

• Define the national framework for initial and continuing teacher training (objectives, modalities, governance, processes) in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector;
• Formulate corresponding policies and strategies in initial and continuing training for teachers and managers;
• Produce standards for developing initial and continuing training for teachers and managers of EPST;
• Produce standards for steering initial and continuing training structures;
• Produce standards for cooperation and coordination with public entities (outside EPST), private entities and international projects active in the training field;
• Formulate, prioritise and disseminate standards across the training system (cross-cutting mission);
• Planning and monitoring/evaluation (cross-cutting mission).

OPERATION (ORGANISATION CHART, DEPARTMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES)

RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIFORE-BG

DIFORE-BG is a normative directorate of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship. Its responsibilities include:

Section 1: teachers

• Define the national framework for initial and continuing teacher training (objectives, modalities, governance, processes) in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector;
• Design policy and strategy projects for initial and continuing teacher training in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector;
• Develop standards on initial and continuing teacher training in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector. These standards apply in particular to:
• Develop standards on initial and continuing training for school heads and management office managers in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector. These standards apply to:
  • Developing professional competency frameworks;
  • Developing and harmonising initial and continuing curricula from a professionalisation and results-based management perspective;
  • Tools for assessing professional competencies;
  • Developing training plans;
  • Creation, operation and governance of public and private organisations delivering initial and continuing training.
• Assess implementation of policies, strategies and standards in initial and continuing training for school heads and management office managers in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector.

Section 3: consultation and coordination

On the basis of the consultation framework, coordinate and harmonise work across public and private organisations responsible for initial and continuing training of teachers, school heads and management office managers in the nursery, primary, secondary and technical sub-sector.

Section 4: international cooperation

• Prepare partnership and international exchange projects with universities and other structures involved in initial and continuing training of teachers and education managers;
• Interface between EPST sub-sector support projects in initial and continuing training and national structures at central and decentralised levels.

DIRECTOR (HEAD OF SERVICE)

Since its creation in 2016, DIFORE-BG has had only one Director (head of service), Mr Alexis YOKA LA PULINANGU.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate for Teacher Training and School Management Offices (DIFORE-BG) is located at No. 4 Ambassadors Avenue, Kinshasa-Gombe.

Email: diforebg@minepst.gouv.cd / alexisyoka@minepst.gouv.cd

DIGE (Index: 96)

DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATION (DIGE)

LOCATION

The Directorate of Information for the Management of Education (DIGE) is housed at No. 7 Science Avenue, Haut Commandement district, Kinshasa/Gombe.

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of Information for the Management of Education is defined in ministerial order No. EDN/DG/3156/75 of 30 October 1975, revised in 1990 (No. MIN EPSP/CABMN/001/01488/90 of 31/12/1990), in 1992 (No. 02326/42 of 14/08/1992), and more recently in 2017 under the Reform and Modernisation of Public Administration strategy (CPMAP), implementing Decree No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 following Order No. CABMIN/FP/J-CK/SGA/CMRAP/JSB/GMK/013/2015 of 30 July 2015 on the organisational framework of standard horizontal structures common to all central ministries, institutions and public services. (INDEX 96)

MISSION OF THE DIRECTORATE

• Build or collect, process and publish official statistics for pre-primary, primary and secondary education;
• Manage the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education information system;
• Prepare and produce the school statistics indicators report;
• Prepare the school map and analyse spatial distribution of school provision to forecast human, financial, budgetary and school resources;
• Coordinate and monitor implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
• Set up and coordinate Provincial Technical Cells for Education Statistics (CTPSE) and monitor decentralisation of the SIGE programme.

OPERATION AND ORGANISATION CHART

The Directorate has 106 staff and managers, spread across 6 divisions and 18 offices:

• SCHOOL STATISTICS Division: four offices—design of collection tools; nursery and primary statistics; secondary statistics; preparation of statistical indicator reports;
• SCHOOL MAP Division: four offices—cartography; demographic analysis and school forecasting; socio-economic studies; analysis of school infrastructure;
• DATABASE Division: two offices—school statistics database; use of statistical data;
• IT NETWORK MANAGEMENT Division: three offices—IT equipment maintenance; IT network; data processing;
• SIGE DECENTRALISATION Division: three offices—provincial technical cells; capacity building for provincial staff; monitoring provincial cell activities;
• EVALUATION SURVEY Division: two offices—surveys and standardised assessment.

There is also the Directorate secretariat, with a secretary, an assistant to the Director at division head grade and two attachés.

FORMER DIRECTORS OF DIGE

• 1983 to 1988: Mr CHARLES ILUNGA MFUKI KABAMBI;
• 1988 to 1995: Mr LAMBERT LWAMBA LWA NEMBA;
• 1995 to 2002: Mr SAMY NKOYO-A-NZOLA (acting);
• 2002 to 2021: Mr FRANÇOIS KUBINDIKILA KAPAY;
• 2021 to 2022: Mr Roger VIMINDE KOTAKOLI (acting);
• 2022 to date: Mr Cédric WAKANDWA WANTUKASAMBA.

CONTACT

Email: dige@minepst.gouv.cd

DAEP (Index: 98)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Directorate of Administration of Private Education was created by Ministerial Order No. MINEPST/CABMIN/200/2004 of 25 August 2004, supplemented by Ministerial Order No. MINEPST/CABMIN/0720/2005 of 8 March 2005.

MISSIONS

The main mission of DAEP remains monitoring and supervision of national private education establishments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

More specifically, DAEP is tasked with:

• Acting as a bridge between the government and all associations of promoters and managers of accredited private establishments;
• Receiving and processing all files and reports concerning accredited private establishments;
• Coordinating and managing projects and programmes contributing to the harmonious development of private education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

FORMER DIRECTORS (HEAD OF SERVICE)

• MLOMENGO Cosma (2004–2006);
• INZUN ON’SAK-ATOM Mathilde (19/8/2006–22/9/2009);
• BOBE NGANDI YAOOTO (22/9/2009–2011);
• MABEKI EKANGA Jean-Robert (2011–2015);
• KENSEKA MONSEMVULA Joseph (2015–2020);
• LIKOKO BOMOLO Guy-Didier (02/4/2020–21/12/2021);
• MUNDAYI NSIAWETE Pierre (from 21/12/2021 to date).

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Administration of Private Education (DAEP) is located at No. 8 Ambassadors Avenue, Gombe commune.

Tel.: +243 812364091
Email: daep@minepst.gouv.cd

DIP (Index: 99)

PILOT PRINTING HOUSE DIRECTORATE (DIP)

LOCATION

The Pilot Printing House Directorate (DIP) is located at No. 8 Syndicat Avenue, Gombe commune, Kinshasa.

ESTABLISHMENT

DIP was created by the Prime Minister’s decree No. 15/043 of 28 December 2015 setting the organisational framework of standard horizontal structures common to all central ministries, institutions and public services. (INDEX 99)

MISSIONS OF THE DIRECTORATE

The missions of DIP are:

• To print pedagogical and administrative documents for the EPST Ministry;
• To train young printers and retrain unqualified printers.

OPERATION / ORGANISATION CHART

DIP has a Director (head of service) and three divisions:

• 1. Human Resources and Finance Division;
• 2. Procurement and Orders Division;
• 3. Technical and Production Division.

There are also 12 offices and a pilot school.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

• Printing of several class journals for teachers and pupils;
• Printing of several report cards.

FORMER DIRECTORS OF DIP

• GONDOLA LILONGA Robert (1971–1977);
• NSIMBA WA NSIMBA NKUNA KANADA Pierre (1977–1985);
• NLANDU MABULA KINKELA Timothée PIKINI (1985–1986);
• MBO NTULA BILE MBOYO Pierre (1986–1988);
• KWETE MINGA BOPE Albert (1988–1998);
• DIAKUMPUNA NZOLAMESO Samuel (1998–2003);
• ITULAMYA MULAKILWA Evariste (2003–2004);
• YABADA KOLA Christian (2004–2006);
• LULENGA MUTUNGILAYI Martin (2006–2009);
• YABADA KOLA Christian (2009–2015);
• KASONGO NDAMBI (2015–2019);
• MABEKI EKANGA NITU Jean-Robert (from 2019 to date).

CONTACT

Email: dip@minepst.gouv.cd

DEPT (Index: 100)

DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION FOR ALL (DEPT)

Establishment

The Directorate of Administration of Education for All (DAEPT) was created by ministerial order No. MINEPS/CABMIN/0198/2004 of 6 September 2004.

Missions

• Develop protection and education for the youngest children;
• Lead programmes to acquire knowledge and skills needed in daily life for young people and adults;
• Supervise and coordinate actions under the Education for All programme (“Education 2030”), SDG 4 and its seven targets;
• Monitor Education for All activities with the relevant structures.

Operation

The Directorate of Administration of Education for All is organised as follows:

• 1 Directorate;
• 1 secretariat;
• 3 Divisions:
  • Division 1: programming and monitoring, with one office;
  • Division 2: evaluation and foresight, with one office;
  • Division 3: management of resources and bilateral and multilateral contributions.

Former directors (head of service)

• LANDU MABULA KINKELA Timothée;
• LOLENGO Cosmas;
• LAEMA OTEPA Cosmas;
• KENSEKA MONSEMULA;
• UKUNDJI TSHUTA Gilmart;
• BEYOKO MBONGANDI Antoine;
• KAMWANGA MOLOWAYE Joseph.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Education for All is located at No. 8 Syndicat Avenue, Gombe commune.

Email: dept@minepst.gouv.cd

DPRS (Index: 102)

ESTABLISHMENT AND HISTORY

The Directorate of Pensions and Survivors’ Benefits was created by order No. 01935/91 of 19 December 1991 of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education.

Its creation responded to a widely felt need. Its legal basis is Ordinance No. 232 of 15 August 1991 on the staff regulations of public establishments for nursery, primary, secondary and vocational education. That ordinance aimed to restore dignity to teachers not only during their career but also after they leave active service, in recognition of service rendered to the Congolese nation through education of young people.

In 1985, following a school inspection mission, a service for control, payroll and teacher numbers (SECOPE) was created. The Ministry of EPST at the time thus gained greater autonomy in managing teachers given their large numbers. In the same spirit, and in line with that ordinance, the Ministry was also to take care of retired teachers, widows and orphans through the Directorate of Pensions and Survivors’ Benefits.

Retired teachers had been largely left to fend for themselves. Many did not know their rights—for example to medical and pharmaceutical care, funeral costs, etc.

Some believed they had been retired without a legal act, solely on the will of a manager without authority. Some retired teachers had not received their end-of-career allowances.

To improve and revalue the teaching profession in light of Ordinance No. 232 of 15 August 1991 on the staff regulations of public establishments for nursery, primary, secondary and vocational education, Chapter III, Article 17, the Directorate of Pensions and Survivors’ Benefits, within its legal powers, received instructions from the Ministry of EPST to prepare the gradual retirement of teachers nationwide from July 2021.

MISSION

The Directorate of Pensions and Survivors’ Benefits is essentially responsible for the sound management of teachers eligible for retirement, their widows and orphans, and for settling the benefits due to them by law.

Teachers remain a resource for the nation; they deserve full consideration and respect.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Pensions and Survivors’ Benefits (DPRS) is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and the Roads Office Avenue, inside the EPST Secretariat General, next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Email: dprs@minepst.gouv.cd

DOI (Index: 104)

ESTABLISHMENT AND HISTORY

The Directorate of Organisation and IT grew out of the former IT and Payroll Office under the Directorate of Finance of National Education.

The 1983 civil service organisation chart attached it to the Payroll Directorate of the Ministry of Finance and Budget. Following an appeal by the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education, this was corrected and the service was restored as a Division under the Directorate of General Services of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education.

For many years this Division operated in difficult material conditions, given the objectives of the IT component and Education III project—rationalising and cleaning up management on the one hand, and meeting IT requirements as a management tool (reliability, availability and optimal performance of hardware, software and human resources) for sound management of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education on the other.

For IT to become an operational and effective tool serving all Ministry directorates (General Services, Teacher Payroll and Control, School Planning, Inspectorate General, Normal and Technical Education, School Programmes and Teaching Materials, etc.), it must have appropriate equipment to meet needs in administrative management (budget, cost control, human resources, etc.) as well as examinations, cumulative reports, etc.

IT objectives cannot be met without organisation and methods to coordinate administrative and IT aspects. IT without a suitable organisational framework cannot function; it serves all directorates and divisions of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education and cannot be hierarchically tied to a single administrative directorate. Organisation, methods and IT are closely linked; a single shared directorate is needed.

Hence the creation of the Directorate of Organisation and IT (DOI) by Departmental Order No. DPS/CE/001/0140/89 of 9 May 1989.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Directorate of Organisation and IT was created by Departmental Order No. DPS/CE/001/0140/89 of 20/05/1989. Its responsibilities include:

• Providing IT support to other directorates;
• Operating computerised systems;
• Designing information systems;
• Developing computerised systems;
• Ensuring development of computerised systems (preliminary implementation studies);
• Defining information flows;
• Managing system development projects;
• Studying available software and drafting general programmes;
• Developing working methods and administrative procedures;
• Controlling quality and auditing systems;
• Providing training and technical advice on equipment and base software choices;
• Finalising and processing information for central services and provincial education divisions of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education;
• Maintaining computerised systems;
• Ensuring capture of valid and invalid data;
• Operating computerised systems;
• Building the Ministry’s computerised data bank:
  • Ensuring deployment of the Ministry’s single data bank;
  • Managing networks, databases and the Ministry’s single data bank.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

DOI is located at No. 3 Ambassadors Avenue, Kinshasa-Gombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Email: doi@minepst.gouv.cd

DPE (Index: 105)

ESTABLISHMENT

The directorate for partnership in education was initially called the Educational Partnership Observatory (OPE). It was created by Ministerial Order No. MINESPT/CABMIN/021/2004 of 26 August 2004. Ministerial Order No. MINESPT/CABMIN/1082/2018 of 10 April 2018 then amended its name and missions; the structure became the Directorate of Partnership in Education (DPE).

MISSIONS

This directorate is responsible for ensuring compliance with conventions, management mandates and various partnership agreements concluded between the Ministry and its national partners. Among other things, it is tasked with:

• Building and developing broad, effective and better coordinated partnerships at national, provincial, sub-provincial and local levels with various actors and partners: school–community links, civil society organisations, the private sector, trade unions, individuals, etc.;
• Ensuring liaison and reporting between the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship and its national partners;
• Registering national partners working in the primary, secondary and vocational education sector;
• Processing files of applications for accreditation from partner associations seeking to work in the primary, secondary and technical education sector;
• Processing reports on activities carried out by partner associations and provincial partnership education cells;
• Disseminating laws and regulations on educational partnership in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
• Submitting reports to senior management on the state of educational partnership in the DRC.

OPERATION

The Directorate of Partnership in Education has 46 staff, including 17 women.

Staffing levels match those provided for in the organisation chart; the Directorate does not suffer from overstaffing.

FORMER DIRECTORS (HEADS OF SERVICE)

• 2004 to 2015: VIMINDE NGBANGO KOTA KOTA;
• 2015 to 2021: BAKU MEZA Blaise;
• 2021 to date: VIMINDE NGBANGO KOTA KOTA.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Partnership in Education (DPE) is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and the Roads Office Avenue, next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kinshasa-Gombe—within the Secretariat General of the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship.

Email: dpe@minepst.gouv.cd

DIFRAN (Index: 106)

ESTABLISHMENT

The Francophonie Directorate (DIFRAN) was created on 21/09/2009 by Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/00382/2009 of 22/09/2009.

MISSIONS

The Francophonie Directorate is responsible for ensuring that the Congolese school system benefits from opportunities and added value from cooperation between the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship (MINEDU-NC) and the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), contributing to the implementation of objectives and results defined and measured under strategies for developing the primary, secondary and technical education sub-sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure that the Congolese school system benefits from opportunities and added value from exchange and solidarity within La Francophonie;
• Participate in achieving objectives and results defined and measured under development strategies for the primary, secondary and technical education sub-sector in the DRC;
• Act as an interface between the Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and national and international bodies working on behalf of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF);
• Contribute to preparing the OIF’s Report on the French language in the world.

FORMER DIRECTORS (HEAD OF SERVICE)

The directors who have led this directorate are:

• MAKINA MALONGI ROBERT: from 2001 to 2004;
• IHANDO AGA MBEMBE SIMON PIERRE: from 2004 to 2009;
• MBILINYAMA BIN MUCHIMBA JEAN PAUL: from 2009 to 2020;
• MALABA MUTSHIMBA JEAN MARIE: from November 2021 to January 2022;
• Ernest NTOMBI BAINANYAMA: from 2022 to date.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Francophonie Directorate (DIFRAN) is located at the intersection of Parliament Avenue (formerly Virunga) and the Roads Office. DIFRAN’s offices are within the Ministry of EDU-NC Secretariat General, Kinshasa/Gombe.

Email: difran@minepst.gouv.cd

Directorate of Communication Management (VSAT and Web)

LOCATION

The Directorate of Communication Management (VSAT and Web) is one of the central directorates and services of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST); its acronym is “DGC/VSAT & WEB”.

It is located in Kinshasa city, at No. 2 Ambassadors Avenue, Gombe commune, in the same compound as the Gombe secondary school.

ESTABLISHMENT

To integrate ICT and communication technologies, the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education created on 7 July 2011 an institutional structure called the Communication Management Unit (CGC).

Created as the VSAT and Website Communication Management Unit (CGC/VSAT&WEB/EPSP), in 2011 under Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/0480/2011 of 19 May 2011 creating a unit responsible for communication management via VSAT network and the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education website, CGC was established under civil service rules, under which a unit should have no more than 41 staff. Membership therefore grew from 12 to 30 at that time.

The unit became a Service under Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/0468 of 15 May 2017 amending, supplementing and elevating the ICT- and website-focused Communication Management Unit of the EPSP Ministry into a Communication Management Service of the EPSP Ministry. Staff numbers rose from 30 to 81, adding 51 posts.

In 2020 a further change occurred: the Service was restructured into a Directorate. It became the “Directorate of Communication Management” (DGC), VSAT and Website/EPST. This change was made under ministerial order No. MINEPST/CABMIN/.../2021 of 23/.../2021, amending and supplementing Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/0292/2017 of 17 April 2017 elevating the ICT-focused VSAT and website communication management unit of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education.

Under the second transformation referred to above, the Directorate organises its work around four pillars:

• Communication and Press Department;
• Technology and Training Department;
• Administration Department;
• Digital, Technology Devices and Distance Education Department.

ORGANISATION

Under Ministerial Order No. MINEPST/CABMIN/101/2022 of 04/09/2022 amending and supplementing Ministerial Order No. MINEPSP/CABMIN/060/2021 of 12 October 2021, DGC has 6 departments, 17 divisions and 25 offices staffed by managers and agents.

Each of these roles is fulfilled within the entities above. The service therefore comprises:

• 1 Director (head of service);
• 6 department heads;
• 25 office heads in post;
• 7 office heads;
• And 388 staff.

DGC is organised as follows:

• Communication and Press Department: Communication Division.
• Technology and Training Department: Technical, Maintenance and Webmaster Division; Partnership, Studies and Training Division.
• Administration Department: Administration Division; Social and Property Division; Finance Division; Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division.
• Digital, Technology Devices and Distance Education Department: Press and Monitoring Division.

Regarding offices, the Directorate comprises 22 offices:

• Personnel Office;
• Property Office;
• Social Affairs and Public Relations Office;
• Pedagogy and Training Needs Collection Office;
• Training Planning Office;
• Studies and Planning Office;
• Monitoring and Evaluation Office;
• Mail and Archives Office;
• Legal Office;
• Service Secretariat;
• Reception;
• Accounting Office;
• Maintenance and Vehicle Fleet Service;
• Treasury and Payroll Office;
• Editorial Office;
• Reporting Office;
• Call Centre Office;
• Monitoring Office;
• Technical Office;
• Web and Database Office;
• Maintenance Office;
• Graphics Office.

FORMER DIRECTORS OF DGC

• June 2011 to July 2013: Mr Nicolas MUHIGIRWA BILENGALENGA;
• July 2013 to July 2015: Ms Germaine IBANGU TSONAMEMBO;
• July 2015 to October 2021: Mr Yannick Nono WAHEMA OMBA;
• October 2021 to June 2022: Mr André MUSHONGO MASHARA;
• June 2022 to date: Jean Jeff WAZ WANYI MWANZA.

CONTACT

Tel.: (+243) 840018006

Email: dgc@minepst.gouv.cd

MISSIONS

Since its creation, the EPST Directorate of Communication Management has mainly coordinated all communication activities, especially those focused on information and communication technology. The mission assigned to DGC reflects the current government’s vision of modernisation. These missions include:

• Communication coverage of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education’s daily activities;
• Oversight of implementation of the digital code and government graphic charter within the EPST Ministry;
• Daily management of the Ministry’s official website, the FOAD platform and the EPST-APPS mobile application;
• Daily management of the EPST Ministry’s social networks;
• Technical supervision of CRESD and their VSAT network;
• Design and printing of the EPST magazine, posters, panels and portraits;
• Production of the weekly Clin d’œil magazine on EPST Ministry activities;
• Technical supervision of exchanges between central and decentralised Ministry structures through professional e-mail addresses and related tools;
• Supporting distance training for teachers through digital means;
• Daily management of the Ministry call centre through the Allo-Ecole green line 178;
• Publishing State examination results;
• Publishing signed orders with the digitisation and legal act traceability unit.

DNOSP (Index: 108)

NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE (DNOSP)

LOCATION

The National Directorate of School and Vocational Guidance (DNOSP) is located at No. 3 Ambassadors Avenue, Cliniques district, Kinshasa/Gombe.

ESTABLISHMENT

The National Directorate of School and Vocational Guidance traces its origin to 1956, when Minister of Colonies Auguste Buisseret created the pilot centre for vocational guidance and selection before it was formalised by Ministerial Order MINEPST/CABMIN/0390/1992 of 4 April 1992 on the organisation and operation of the central division for school and vocational guidance within DIPROMAD. It is now governed by Ministerial Order No. MINEPST/CABMIN-ETAT/0112/2020 of 6 February 2020 through the Directorate of the National Centre for School and Vocational Guidance. (INDEX 108)

MISSIONS OF THE DIRECTORATE

• Organise selective examinations;
• Support teachers psychologically for better care and psycho-pedagogical support for pupils;
• Help regulate pupils in terms of “knowing how to be”, behaviour, social skills, etc.;
• Help pupils turn theoretical knowledge into skills, competencies and conduct.

OPERATION / ORGANISATION CHART

DNOSP is headed by a Director (head of service) supported by a secretariat.

DNOSP is organised into 9 divisions:

• Human capital management division: three offices—personnel and career management; administrative disputes; social action;
• School and vocational guidance standards division: three offices—planning and resources; standards and regulations for guidance and support; assessment standards;
• Guidance and counselling division: three offices—implementation of school guidance and reorientation strategies; liaison with reception, guidance and counselling services in higher education; data processing and exploitation;
• Selection and school guidance division: three offices—relations with institutions and bodies; selection and vocational guidance; readaptation and reintegration of vulnerable groups;
• Design and studies division: three offices—studies, research and publications; test library and psycho-psychological laboratory; reforms and scientific innovation in guidance;
• Guidance monitoring and control division: two offices—control and assessment of guidance activities; monitoring and remediation;
• Psycho-pedagogical and social support for vulnerable groups in support of special education and inclusive education division: two offices—liaison with vulnerable groups’ structures; child protection;
• Guidance information management division: two offices—school and vocational guidance information; archives and documentation;
• Training and retraining in guidance division: two offices—planning and production of training tools; training and retraining.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

DNOSP has already produced working tools including:

• The national programme of activities at primary and secondary school;
• Didactic boards on trades by type of general, normal and technical education offered in the country;
• The book “Practice of school and vocational guidance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”;
• The school guidance file, technical sheet for psycho-pedagogical support and psychosocial support for pupils;
• Control and assessment sheets for school and vocational guidance activities;
• Collection of specific and cross-cutting school and vocational guidance activities in relation to SSEF objectives;
• Capacity building for guidance and career counsellors on various modules.

FORMER DIRECTORS OF DNOSP

• MULANDA KIMPEMBE Odon: from 2017 to date.

CONTACT

Email: dnosp@minepst.gouv.cd

RTEDUC (Index: 109)

ESTABLISHMENT AND LOCATION

The Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education’s thematic television channel is called Radiotélévision Thématique de l’éducation (“RTEDUC”).

The Directorate of Thematic Education Radio and Television was established by ministerial order No. MINIEPST/CABMIN/087/2021 of 04/12/2021, changing the Directorate of Thematic Education Television into the Directorate of Thematic Education Radio and Television (RTEDUC), located at No. 2 Ambassadors Avenue, Kinshasa/Gombe.

MISSIONS

RTEDUC’s missions are:

• Support the Government in delivering its programme in education, socio-cultural affairs and training;
• Disseminate official Ministry directives and instructions;
• Cover educational, pedagogical and socio-cultural activities nationwide;
• Disseminate texts and reforms under the sector education policy;
• Promote responsible citizenship and a culture of peace through programmes and awareness campaigns in learning environments;
• Produce and broadcast pedagogical and educational programmes;
• Provide a space for educational partners to share experience;
• Produce films, documentaries and sketches promoting gender equality, respect for public property and other moral values.

OPERATION

A. Technical component

This component rests on the day-to-day responsibilities of each department. These responsibilities align with the missions of the Directorate of Thematic Education Radio and Television; in addition to daily tasks, there are specific short-, medium- and long-term initiatives.

Director (head of service) office

• Receive, register, draft, collate, send and file mail and files;
• Manage the service’s human resources records;
• Process and produce texts and documents;
• Manage the channel’s documentation;
• Manage the Director’s appointment diary;
• Process and dispatch incoming correspondence;
• Carry out any other administrative tasks assigned by management;
• Prepare activity reports for the office.

Administration department

• Manage personnel files and maintain a positive working environment;
• Manage financial resources;
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual budget forecasts;
• Ensure compliance and follow-up of administrative procedures for financial and budget management and asset management;
• Ensure quality of work;
• Produce periodic budget execution reports and the general activity report;
• Carry out inventories of assets and expenditure;
• Manage staffing and develop human resources strategies;
• Ensure application of legislation and statutory rules on personnel management;
• Prepare notes and service announcements;
• Prepare files on social contribution and assistance;
• Provide human, technical and financial resources for filming;
• Ensure layout and design of TV studios and offices;
• Prepare department activity reports.

Information department

• Seek, process and disseminate educational, social, health and environmental information;
• Cover activities of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education;
• Ensure strict adherence to the education-themed editorial line;
• Handle dissemination of information on the bandwidth;
• Maintain ongoing contact with all directorates and services of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education;
• Present the TV news and host programmes;
• Select news presenters;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

Technical department

• Centralise, manage and archive images, sound and video from Ministry ceremonies;
• Prepare files on purchasing equipment and office supplies;
• Manage furniture and service equipment;
• Manage, configure and maintain service equipment;
• Install equipment;
• Ensure technical production of live or deferred broadcasts;
• Maintain communication with equipment and technical service suppliers;
• Ensure equipment and system security;
• Ensure satellite and radio links between transmission and broadcast stations;
• Monitor lines, power supply and backup power for television;
• Technically assess programme quality before broadcast;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

Production department

• Manage productions;
• Design on-air branding;
• Ensure smooth running of internal and external productions;
• Produce educational programmes;
• Prepare production sheets;
• Manage, produce, direct and decorate TV programme sets;
• Choose materials and arrange furniture for filming;
• Do make-up for presenters and guests;
• Create an artistic atmosphere by designing and adapting decoration to each programme theme;
• Design scenarios, plan and direct magazines, programmes and TV news;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

Partnership and marketing department

• Prepare files on continuing training for staff;
• Carry out studies to promote and develop the television channel;
• Manage relations with continuing training bodies nationally and internationally;
• Identify, persuade and bring in financial and technical partners;
• Prepare marketing communication plans and strategies;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

Digital department

• Manage the channel’s IT web presence;
• Install operating systems and software;
• Manage IT consumables;
• Centralise, manage and archive images, sound and video from Ministry ceremonies;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

Radio programmes and production department

• Programme radio content;
• Prepare the programme schedule and radio airtime log;
• Analyse specifications for radio programmes;
• Ensure strict adherence to the programme schedule and radio editorial line;
• Represent the radio before courts and professional regulators;
• Design educational programmes;
• Analyse, detect and report poor quality and/or signal loss;
• Prepare and submit monthly broadcast schedules to controllers;
• Monitor and evaluate content broadcast on radio;
• Prepare department reports and report to management.

B. Administrative component

RTEDUC staff are civil servants and managers of the national public administration.

The procedure manual validated by the EPST Secretariat General sets out how the RTEDUC directorate operates.

SUCCESSION OF RTEDUC DIRECTORS (HEADS OF SERVICE)

• 2018 to 2019: Coordinator: MFISIA LUZU Dieudonné (Deputy Coordinator: SHUNGU DJONGELO Guy);
• 2019 to 2021: KABUTUTU Carine;
• 2021 to date: SHUNGU DJONGELO Guy.

ADDRESS AND CONTACT

The Directorate of Thematic Education Radio and Television (“RTEDUC”) is located at No. 2 Ambassadors Avenue, Kinshasa/Gombe.

Email: rteduc@minepst.gouv.cd