Policy, Partnerships and East African Community Affairs

Functions of the Directorate

The functions of the Directorate include:-

• Development of policies and strategies and coordinate their implementation to achieve quality education training and research.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and other partners in Education
• Ensuring adherence to international conventions and commitments.
• Monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes in the State Department of Education.
• Initiation reforms in Education for improved service delivery in the sector.
• Coordination of sectoral matters related to the East African Community Affairs.
• Liaising with other countries through Ministry of Foreign Affairs on preparation of memoranda of understanding on cooperation.
• Coordination of inter-ministerial issues related to the education sector.
• Development, implementation and review of the communication strategy for the Ministry.
• Coordinating the evaluation of instructional materials
• Coordination of Governance, Accountability and Risk Management action plan
• Coordination of Public Private Partnerships.
• Coordination of education projects in the country.

Functional Organization

The Directorate of Policy, Partnership and East African Community Affairs has four main Departments:-

National Education Program (NEP)

• Coordination of  National Investment Programmes
• Provide Secretariat to the National Education Programmes
• Liaising with Development Partners, stakeholders and private education providers.
• Monitoring and Evaluation of National Education Sector Plan (NESP) Investment areas
• Coordinating surveys, studies and other consultancies
• Coordinating  Education For All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) activities
• Coordination of Environmental Education
• Coordinate mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues such as HIV and AIDS, Gender in Education, Peace Education, disability mainstreaming, environmental education and Early Grade Reading

Policy and Programs

• Coordination of Policy development and evaluation
•  Mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS activities in educational institutions
•  Coordination of Peace Education
• Mainstreaming of Gender in Education activities
• Coordination of Communication Strategy and management of Ministry’s Resource Centre
• Evaluation of Curriculum Support Materials

Evaluation of curriculum instructional materials

• Coordination of publishers
• Field monitoring of curriculum materials
• Training of Evaluators
• Conducting independent review of curriculum materials
• Coordination of East African Community Activities

Coordination of the Productive and Social Sectors activities

• Participation in the sectors High Level Task Force on East African Common Market
• Participation in the Judicial and Legal Sectors
• Harmonization of the curriculum and Education Systems
• Participation in the preparation for East African Community Summits
• Participation in the preparation of Finance and Administration Sectoral Council.