JOHN ELTON LUSINGU

• Responsible for providing overall leadership for the board;
• To ensure the board works as a team in discharging its roles and responsibilities.
• To ensure good governance practices and procedures are in place and existence of constructive relationship between Board of Directors and management;
• To lead Board Evaluation process and institute a culture of transparency and team work among Board Members;
• To govern and control the management of the Institute;
• To administer both movable and immovable assets of the institute
• To administer the funds and other assets of the institute
• To establish committees as Board may deem fit;
• To formulate policies of the institute;
• To do all such acts and things which in the opinion of the Board, are necessary or expedient for the proper discharge of its function.

Achievements:

Overseen transformational programme of the Institute into a resourceful institution. Four Senior Lecturers promoted to Professor Positions, and massive review and overhaul of academic programme to build in a strong research component to address contemporary issues.

Technical adviser for overall policy and education sector technical aspects.

• Lead adviser for education sector government engagements (MOEST/TAMISEMI).
• Lead technical expert for education sector systems and institutional policy reforms.
• Programme Responsible Officer(PRO), for oversight of BHC £215m bilateral education programmes (Shule Bora and EPfR -Education Programmme for Results)
• British High Commission lead technical adviser for Global Partnership in Education (GPE-Programme)
• Chairperson for Education Donor Partners Group (EDPG).
• BHC certified workplace Mediator, and
• BHC Staff Welfare Representative.

Achievements: (i)Established 3 key Protocols under EPfR under the support of Shule -Bora (a) Teacher Allocation Protocols to support equitable Teacher allocation based on need,(b)Teaching-Learning Materials for Primary schools(P-TLMAP) and for Secondary schools(S-TLMAP) (ii) Enabled the EPfR independent Verification to facilitate smooth dialogue between GOT and Development Partners (iv) As EDPG chair enabled tabling of major reform to sector dialogue.

(iii)Instituted a range of system reforms through support of the GPE systems capacity grant

Component Technical Lead for Organizational Planning & Local Education Management - £90m Education Quality Improvement Programme in Tanzania (EQUIP-Tanzania)

1. Overall responsibility for management of all component activities.

2. Oversight lead for the Programme Fund Officers, responsible for the monitoring of decentralized funds expenditure, control and reporting.

3. Responsible planning , design and delivery of capacity building interventions on decentralized education planning and Management and Public Financial Management. (in partnership with Institute of Rural development Planning) in the 48 Local councils in Tanzania's 7 administrative regions.

Achievements: (i)significant results from a 4 Year Programme, in the local governments under my component, schools re-established school committees that were accountable to the parents. (ii)Introduction of more representative school level Parent -Teacher-Partnerships (PTPs)in place of PTAs (iii) professionalised Ward Education Office position to make them more responsive to school needs (iii) introduced In-Service Teacher upgrade(evolved into current TCPD), (iv) introduced School Readiness Programme(SRPs) to mitigate barrier to access due to long distances (v) introduction of DEM practices. All these are sustained in current shule-bora programme