Education Reform – 2002

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No further developments occurred this year. If one uses gross pre-primary school enrollment as an indicator of reconstruction of schools destroyed during conflict, it appeared that the enrollment rate had increased from 2% to 5% in 2002, and gradually increased to 12%, increasing in increments of 1% annually.1

Education Reform – 2000

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Information on whether or not schools were rebuilt was not readily available. The Programme National de Désarmement, Démobilisation et Réinsertion (PNDDR), which was established to oversee DDR programs, was also responsible for the rehabilitation of community infrastructure; i.e. schools, health facilities, etc.2 Nevertheless, the PNDDR and DDR programs had not been adequately funded, and it was difficult to assess the extent to which war-damaged school facilities had been restored. It was also not clear which programs had affected children in terms of relaxing the official schooling-age requirement.

Internally Displaced Persons – 2009

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The government estimate of displaced people did not change as of 2009.3 According to the final report of the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP), there were an estimated 7,800 IDPs from 2006 to 2009 in the Republic of Congo.4