Education Ministry’s Situation Rooms Equipped
The Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST) has received a boost with the handing over of computers, and office equipments worth more than two hundred thousand dollars USD $ 200,000 to enable the setting up of situation rooms in Freetown and all district education offices to monitor schooling across the country. (Items donated to the MEST)
The presentation was carried out at the MEST Offices at, New England Ville in Freetown on 9th October 2015.
The equipment made possible through DFID technical and financial support and supplied by UNICEF to help overcome a crucial bottleneck in school monitoring caused by the absence of reliable data collection, information management and reporting system.
In his welcoming statement, the Minister of Education Science and Technology, Minkailu Bah thanked DFID and UNICEF for the good thing they have done for MEST and he expressed realization that they way they were doing things before the coming of these equipments was not given them the required result and he assured that with such implement information will be flowing accordingly.
Minkailu Bah and Geof Wiffin display Items
He maintained that they are going to work with stakeholder including Paramount Chiefs to help them achieve their desire and he recalled how they (Paramount Chief) played great role during the Ebola and emphasized on how they were not considered in partaking to education matters in the past, a process he said contributed in to the backwardness of our educational system.
“We need your intervention to help us educate our children,” Mr. Bah called on donor partners and he assured to make sure the equipment are distributed and used judiciously.
The UNICEF Representative, Geof Wiffin said the equipment will help provide a network of constantly updating data that will help the Ministry run a modern schooling system where information flows rapidly from the most remote schools straight in to the Ministry’s Headquarters in Freetown , while also being available and stored at the district education office.
He concluded that, in the immediate context of the Ebola emergency, the situation rooms will help monitor the availability of vital hygiene supplies that help keep children in school safe and he added that the situation rooms will build on the work already done to pioneer data collection through the Rapid Pro SMS monitoring system which has been used from April 2015, when 1.8 million children returned against a background of continuing EVD cases.
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