January 2005 ADEA Briefs
Malawi hosts education finance training session
January 24 to 28, 2005 some 30 managers from the ministries
of education, finance, information and community organizations gathered
in Lilongwe, Malawi for a national training seminar organized by the
Working Group on Finance and Education (WGFE). The session focused on
planning, budget management and financing. The meeting was opened by
Hon. Yusuf Mwawa, Minister of Education in Malawi, who thanked both
CODESRIA and ADEA for their support in organizing the seminar, the first
of its kind in Malawi. Mohamed Cherif Diarra, Coordinator of the WGFE
emphasized the need for high-ranking officials to play a more dynamic
role in managing educational resources in a transparent and efficient
manner.
> Meeting Agenda: Click
here
> WGFE Web site: Click
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Working
Group on Non-Formal
Education meets in London to discuss implementation of 2005 work plan
Members of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Working
Group on the Teaching Profession (WGTP) and the Working Group on Non-Formal
Education (WGNFE) met on January 27-28 in Marlborough House, London,
to discuss implementation of the 2005 Work Plan.
In hosting this meeting, the Secretary General of the
Commonwealth Secretariat, Rt Hon. Don McKinnon reaffirmed the commitment
of the Commonwealth Secretariat to ADEA and in particular to the
two working groups.
The meeting brought together representatives from the
lead agency (SDC), the coordinating agency (ComSec) as well as from
UNESCO (UIE), GTZ, the Working Group on Communication for Education
for Development (WGCOMED), the Working Group on the Teaching Profession
(WGTP) and the ADEA Secretariat. The Assistant Minister of Education
of Kenya also attended the meeting.
Also discussed was t he working group 's involvement
in the preparation of the forthcoming ADEA Biennale. WGNFE and the ADEA
Secretariat will hold a follow-up meeting in Paris in the coming weeks
to discuss how best the theme of literacy could be addressed within
the next ADEA Biennale.
> WGNFE Web site: Click
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Burkina Faso Country Working Group
on Non-Formal Education contributes to research on how to measure the
right to education
Mamadou Ndoye, Executive Secretary of ADEA, met with
the Working Group on Non-Formal Education in Burkina Faso, which is
currently studying how to assess the right to education. This national
study, carried out jointly with the Institut interdisciplinaire d'ethique
et des droit de l'homme (IIEDH) and the UNESCO history and economic
policy Chair of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, has resulted
in a handbook and methodology for measuring the effectiveness of the
right to education according to certain criteria: acceptability, adaptability,
adequacy of funding, and accessibility. It was agreed to look into the
possibility of organizing a workshop to share the Burkina Faso experience
with other African countries.
> IIEDH/UNESCO/University of Fribourg web site: Click
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Bilingual schools is subject of meeting
between ADEA and Burkina Faso Minister of Education
Burkina Faso's Minister of Basic Education and Literacy,
Hon. Mathieu Ouedraogo ,his advisor Francois Suli and the coordinator
of bilingual schools, Paul Taryam Ilboudo met with Mamadou Ndoye during
the Executive Secretary's mission to Ouagadougou. They proposed March-April
2005 for the evaluation exercise that will assess results obtained by
bilingual schools.
After the mission, terms of reference for the evaluation
were drafted and an international consultant was selected to lead the
local team.
> ADEA paper on bilingual education in Burkina
Faso: Click
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ADEA strengthens collaboration with
ERNWACA
Mrs Kathryn Toure, the coordinator of the Educational
Research Network for Western and Central Africa (ERNWACA) met with ADEA's
Executive Secretary in Ouagadougou (end of January) . The following
decisions were taken:
- ADEA will be represented on the ERNWACA board
of directors either by a member of the Secretariat or by a working
group coordinator;
- The Secretariat will examine possible support
for African participation in the ERNWACA meeting on HIV/AIDS, which
will focus on training for qualitative analysis of data;
- ERNWACA will put together studies on
ICTs and school effectiveness in preparation of the next Biennial
Meeting ;
- ERNWACA will hold a meeting end of May
alongside ADEA 's next Steering Committee meeting to present its strategic
plan for 2005-2010 to potential donors and partners;
- ADEA and ERNWACA will examine plans for
organizing a biennial conference during the "off" years
that would focus on research and allow Africanists and African scholars
to prepare papers and input on the theme of the upcoming ADEA Biennale
. The first meeting would be in 2006;
- ADEA has asked ERNWACA to draw up plans
for developing a journal that would offer African researchers a place
to publish their best work concerning education in Africa . Proposals
will be submitted to the ADEA Steering Committee.
- ERNWACA has been invited to submit a plan for
initiating a prize for research on education that would encourage
excellence and reward the best research on education in Africa.
> ERNWACA web site: Click
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ADEA
Participation in External Meetings |
French Economic and Social Council hosts
meeting on the African Union, NEPAD and the challenges ahead to fight
poverty
The meeting was held at the headquarters
of the Council for Economic and Social Affairs in Paris on January 17,
2005, under the aegis of the French Foreign Ministry (represented by
the Minister, Michel Barnier), UNESCO (represented by the Director General,
Mr Koichiro Matsuura),and the International Organization of Francophonie
(represented by the Secretary General, Abdou Diouf ). It was organized
by the Centre international francophone d' échanges et de ré
flexion (CIFER) and SOPEL International , a francophone economic intelligence
organization specialized in countries of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
regions. Discussions focused on the African Union and NEPAD in the face
of poverty, and both education and health were seen to play major roles
in meeting the challenge. These issues were addressed in a speech by
UNESCO Deputy Director General Tidjani-Serpos. The afternoon session
was devoted to developing strategies for food security and environmental
protection. The Executive Secretary of ADEA spoke on the role of education
in combating poverty.
> NEPAD web site: Click
here
> African Union web site: Click
here
> UNESCO web site: Click here
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ADEA represented at Geneva
agencies' meeting on skills development
On January 17 and 18 ,2005 the Working
Group for International Cooperation in Skills Development hosted a meeting
to discuss the relationship between basic education, skills development
and reduction of poverty. The main objective was to facilitate
exchange of experiences among agencies working in the field of skills
development. The following organizations, among others, were represented
at the meeting: ILO, IIEP, GTZ (Germany) , SDC (Switzerland), FAO and
the AGA Khan Foundation. ADEA presented its new ad hoc WG on Post- Primary
Education and explored how the International WG on Skills Development
could link up with ADEA to guide the intervention of the ad hoc WG in
sub-Saharan Africa. The participants were very positive about ADEA’s
renewed interest in skills development in conjunction with secondary
education and also welcomed ADEA's perspective that will include links
between basic education and skills development .A meeting of the ad
hoc Working Group to discuss its priorities, composition and work plan
will take place on April 29 during a conference organized by the Center
of African Studies of the University of Edinburgh on "Re-integrating
education, skills and work in Africa: Towards informal or knowledge
economies? Towards autonomy or dependency in development?".
> ADEA and post-primary education: Click
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Consultation on recruitment
and migration follows signing of Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol
September 1, 2004, following the example
of the 2003 protocol on migration of nurses, the Ministers of Education
from 24 Commonwealth countries voted to accept a Commonwealth Teacher
Recruitment Protocol. The Protocol aims to balance the rights
of teachers to migrate internationally against the need to protect the
integrity of national education systems, and to prevent the exploitation
of scarce human resources of poor countries. It also seeks to safeguard
the rights of recruited teachers, and the conditions relating to their
service in the recruiting country.
The consultation on the recruitment and
migration of the highly skilled (nurses and teachers) was held on January
25 ,2005 at Marlborough House in London to monitor the follow-up and
implementation strategies. Speakers from the International Labor Organization
(ILO), The World Health Organization (WHO) and Education International
(EI )presented an overview of the current situation, with special emphasis
on the need to find a balance between individual rights and a more collective
interest in protecting vulnerable education systems. The Protocol needs
to be monitored closely to ensure that a balance is achieved.
With support from ADEA, the Protocol has
now been translated into French for wider dissemination and the ADEA
Working Group on the Teaching Profession (WGTP) has integrated
into its 2005 Work Plan several follow-up activities with regard to
workforce planning, recruitment policies and teacher qualifications.
There is interest in comparing the differences in teacher shortages
and (international) migration of teachers in different types of educational
systems, both anglophone and francophone.
> Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol: Click
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Ouagadougou seminar focuses
on how to achieve greater interaction between decision-makers and researchers
Recognizing that there are few opportunities
for those who do the research and those who make decisions in education
to exchange ideas and interact with one another, the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) organized a workshop January 27 and 28
to see how matters might be improved. The President of IDRC attended
the meeting which was opened by the Ministry of Education of Burkina
Faso . The meeting f ocused on four themes:
- Favorable and unfavorable factors in establishing
a dialogue ;
- Research-decision-maker dynamics: approaches, experiences,
successes;
- Ways and means of strengthening synergies ;and ,
- Follow-up and future directions .
The sessions discussed measures for improving
communication and dialogue, publishing results and popularizing them,
and providing training that would help integrate research into the decision-making
and policy implementation process.
ADEA's Executive Secretary addressed the meeting on the topic "Research
and policy decisions in education: together or opposites? "
> DRC web site: Click
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ADEA Newsletter on secondary education
The ADEA Newsletter focuses on the poor
cousin of education systems in Africa. Secondary education in sub-Saharan
Africa is assessed and main challenges ahead are highlighted. The Newsletter
also announces the setting up of an ADEA Ad Hoc Working Group on Post-Primary
Education.
>
ADEA Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 3
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Working Group on Finance
and Education launches Kalan Kunda, a biannual newsletter
With an ambitious printrun of 1000 copies
for distribution to ministries of education in all countries south of
the Sahara, donor organizations, NGOs and educational research institutions,
the Working Group on Finance and Education ( WGFE )launched the maiden
issue of its newsletter in January 2005. The name Kalan Kunda means
"knowledge space" in Bambara, and the newsletter, to be published
twice a year in both French and English, will also be available electronically
on the CODESRIA website. It includes sections on activities and events,
professional advice, reader comments, book reviews and a calendar of
events.
While aiming to increase the visibility
of WGFE in Africa, the newsletter also embodies the new, more dynamic
spirit of the working group and offers the opportunity to broaden discussion
and the exchange of ideas. All those interested in contributing to the
newsletter are invited to do so.
> Kalan Kunda
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New information leaflet
on the Working Group on the Teaching Profession
The newly restructured Working Group on
the Teaching Profession has recently revised its work plan to reflect
the new concerns of the merged working group. The vision, structure
and priorities of the working group are spelled out in the new information
leaflet in Portuguese, English and French.”
> WGTP web site: Click
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February 19-20, 2005
WGHE to meet during AAU General Conference on
“Cross Border Provision the Future of Higher Education in Africa”
The Working Group on Higher Education (WGHE)
will organize an extraordinary meeting for its Steering Committee in
Cape Town, South Africa, February 19-20, 2005. The meeting will be held
in conjunction with AAU’s 11th General Conference on “Cross
Border Provision and the Future of Higher Education in Africa”.
WGHE will use the forum to disseminate the
results of a number of studies it commissioned on key areas affecting
higher education in Africa.
In addition to the Steering Committee Extraordinary
Meeting, WGHE will organize two parallel sessions on February 25: the
first (organized with partners) will focus on HIV/AIDS; the second (organized
with UNESCO) will focus on “Institutional Differentiation and
Articulation Within Tertiary Education Systems in Africa”.
> For more information contact Alice
Lamptey, Coordinator, WGHE
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February
21-25, 2005
WGCOMED to organize training workshop for journalists
and communication officers in Bamako
Some fifty journalists and communication
officers from the Ministry of Education are expected to attend a training
workshop on communication and development in Bamako, February 21-25,
2005. The workshop’s main objective is to strengthen the
Ministry’s institutional capacities in communication. It also
aims at enhancing Malian journalists’ understanding of education
issues and encouraging the media to cover education more systematically.
WGCOMED is also exploring the possibility
of creating a network of education “communicators” in Mali
at the end of the workshop.
> For more information contact Prof.
Alfred Opubor, Coordinator, WGCOMED
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February
20-26, 2005
Peer review of Mauritius education system begins
preparatory phase
The Working Group on Education Sector Analysis
(WGESA) will be in Mauritius from February 20-26 to begin preparations
for its peer review exercise. The activity is a follow up to recommendations
made by the 2003 ADEA Biennial Meeting , the ADEA Steering Committee
and the Caucus of Ministers for pilot peer reviews to be carried out
in three countries, namely Mauritius, Gabon and Nigeria. The pilot reviews
will be extended later to include reviews of Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Côte d’Ivoire, Republic of Congo, the Gambia, Kenya,. Liberia,
Mali, Niger, South Africa and Zanzibar.
Organized in cooperation with the host country,
the mission to Mauritius aims to finalize a memorandum of understanding
between partners involved in the review, to complete the selection process
of international team members and to determine the review contents.
> For m ore information contact Ibrahima
Bah-Lalya, Coordinator, WGESA
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March
7-18, 2005
Working Group on Mathematics and Science Education
(WGMSE) to be launched in Nairobi
The newly created ADEA Working Group on
Mathematics and Science Education (WGMSE) will be launched officially
March 30-31, 2005 in Nairobi. The launching ceremony will be held at
the Holiday Inn Hotel, in the presence of Hon. Prof. George Saitoti,
Minister for Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kenya,
the Japanese Ambassador to Kenya, and the ADEA Executive Secretary.
Ministers of Education from Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal
are also expected to attend. After the launch, there will be a keynote
speech by the 2004 Nobel peace winner Prof. Wangari Mathai. This will
be followed by the working group’s first Steering Committee meeting.
> For further information please contact Bernard
Njuguna, Coordinator, WGMSE
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April
4-8, 2005
Senegal workshop on methodology will kick off
WGFE case studies on education finance
Team members responsible for case study
research on the financing of SWAps and its impact on teaching and learning
(Mali and Uganda) ,the financing of non-formal education (Burkina Faso)
and education financial management in the context of decentralization
and budgetary constraint (Guinea) ,will meet in Bamako, April 4-8 ,
to develop their methodology skills. The 25 members will come from Burkina
Faso, Guinea, Mali and Uganda. The training sessions will cover literature
review, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, and qualitative
and quantitative techniques for research.
> For more information, contact Mohamed
Chérif Diarra, Coordinator, WGFE
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