Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Academic Research in Science, Technology and Engineering
Year: 2025
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Digital Platform for Sharing Data on The Education System for Strengthening Public Accountability and Inclusive Socio-Economic Development in Burundi
Esperance Ndayishimiye,Vercus Ntirandekura, Hilaire Nkunzimana
ABSTRACT:
For more than a decade, the Burundian government has made significant efforts to modernize its education system in order to meet the country’s diverse demands for competent human resources. Although it has national sectoral strategies aimed at improving the sector’s services, their implementation is limited by a shortage, if not insufficient, financial resources. Indeed, some technical and financial partners who were previously rooted in the sector have gone, sectoral dialogue has weakened, domestic funding of the sector has decreased, and the macroeconomic framework has been entirely disrupted, as indicated by the INSBU annual reports for 2018-2022.
This is having a significant impact on projects aimed at increasing data on the Burundian education system. The lack of a current data collection and centralization mechanism has delayed the sectoral diagnosis’s update in all of these areas. Deprived of “raw materials” and hence of proof, the planning process has reached an organizational and logistical standstill [14]. For all of these reasons, it is difficult to revise plans for the entire education and training sector.
Within this framework, the purpose of this study is to generate evidence on the Burundian national education system, organize and disseminate that knowledge to all stakeholders and/or actors in order to sharpen their public responsibilities.
keywords: Education system, accurate data, scaling up, inclusiveness, gender equality, and public accountability