Construction department (DoC) of Ministry of Education of Afghanistan (MoE) was the overall responsible unit in the government to supervise the school construction in the country before the war. The Department’s responsibility also included needs assessment of schools for school building, planning, provision of proper design, estimations, implementation of actual construction work, monitoring and evaluation of school construction in the whole country.

DoC/MoE was also responsible for provision of other building related accessories like; latrine, drinking water, boundary walls and schoolyard.

 Afghanistan’s continuing war and governmental services affected the DoC/MoE with lack of technical staff and the ones remained or hired at later stage were either without technical education or lacking experiences in the field of construction.

DAARTT together with DoC/MoE management designed workshops to provide the basic technical knowledge to DoC staff who did not have sufficient technical training and refreshing sessions for those who had technical trainings before, but have been disconnected from construction related activities for decades because of war.

The new role of DoC in MoE is to be a more technical and monitoring service provider to contractors of school construction, thus workshops were designed to give more work related skills to the participants.

In total 17928 person/hour trainings including issues as; construction material, cost estimation, report writing and technical monitoring has been delivered to DoC staff by DAARTT.