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Electronic learning Management System Launched

May 14, 2011   ·   0 Comments

By Ruth Kang’ong’oi

Electronic Learning Management System (ELMS), a tool which facilitates streamline training programmes without geographical or training barriers has been launched. Students of Legal Practice and Development (ILPD) in Nyanza province will now have the option of pursuing their studies without necessarily travelling to the Southern Province.

ILPD was established by law in 2006 and it resumed teaching BAR courses in 2008. So far 200 people have graduated from the institute.

The ELMS is expected to change the institute’s management of academic and administrative needs by converting most of the processes relating to training programmes that were being done manually. For example; a range of processes will go on-line, including, courses applications, processing admissions, preparation and scheduling of courses, cataloguing library resources and examinations.

During the launch, ILPD also received an assortment of IT equipment like servers, computers, scanners and printers from Rwanda Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Program and the Justice Strengthening Project (JSP

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Esperance Nyirasafari, thanked the US Government for the continued support, noting that the new equipment will play a crucial role in advancing the judicial sector. “The US Government supports many sectors in Rwanda but we are particularly delighted by the support directed towards the justice sector through the Justice Strengthening Sector,” Nyirasafari said adding that the system and the equipment will be of great use in our ambitions to further strengthen the judicial sector.

USAID country Director, Dennis Weller; and Miguel Castillero, representative of JSP, the implementing agency of Rwanda MCC Program, handed over the equipment to the Ministry of Justice.

According to Castillero, JSP and ILPD have jointly implemented several projects that have succeeded and will continue to do so. The USAID country representative committed the agency’s support to the centre.

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