500 Million Meticais Available For Conclusion Of School Construction – Mozambique Education

The Mozambican Ministry of Education says it has 500 million meticais (7.8 million dollars at the current exchange rate) available to conclude the construction of unfinished schools.

According to the Minister of Education, Carmelita Namashulua, speaking at the opening of a meeting of her Ministry’s Coordinating Council, the amount will prioritize buildings that are already more than 50 per cent complete.

She said School infrastructures and their equipment remain a priority for the education sector added that the government’s five-year programme envisaged the construction of 3,355 classrooms for primary education, of which 2,791 have been completed, accommodating 278,600 pupils.

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She reiterate the exhortation to all provincial managers to be more engaged and swift in building school infrastructure, as was evident in 2021 and 2022.

She said by the end of the first half of the current year, a further 86 classrooms has been built, two secondary schools has been rehabilitated in the northern province of Nampula and three others had been extended in the southern province of Maputo and the central province of Zambézia.

The minister also claimed that the delay in the provision of teaching materials, school management, and compliance with programmes are still challenges for the sector.

she empathized the need for greater involvement of the private sector to ensure compliance with the activities planned within the teaching and learning process.