Following the introduction in 2009 of the Nine Year Basic Education Program (9YBE), which offers nine years of education to all Rwandan children free of charge, the Government of Rwanda has recently made available a capitation grant to the country’s schools for their operations. To ensure the transparent and accountable management of the capitation grant, independent monitoring is essential. Transparency Rwanda will therefore use PETS as a diagnostic tool to ascertain concrete facts on the location and quantity of bureaucratic capture, leakage of funds and problems in the deployment of in-kind resources such as textbooks. More specifically, TR is seeking to determine how reliable the reports provided by the school managers are, if there is any embezzlement , how transparent the flow of resources is within the institutional hierarchy, and what mechanisms are in place to prevent the misuse of the grant.
