ADEA participates in EFA and PACTED meetings on teachers

November 25-29, 2013, ADEA’s Acting Executive Secretary Hamidou Boukary participated in the Sixth International Policy Dialogue Forum of the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA) and on November 29 in the meeting of the partners of the African Union Commission (AUC) on the Pan-African Conference on Teacher Development (PACTED). Both meetings were held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. 

During the PACTED deliberations, ADEA was asked to specifically support Nigeria, one of the 4 pilot countries (with Kenya, Senegal and Togo), in the implementation of the Roadmap for PACTED.

The International Task Force on Teachers for EFA has, since its inception in December 2008, carried out actions aimed at strengthening national teacher education policies and the sharing of knowledge and expertise to reduce the acute shortage of qualified and well-resourced teachers needed to achieve quality Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2015. ADEA has been both a strategic partner and also a member of the Steering Committee of the Task Force.

The two organizations are currently assisting the Government of Niger to implement an audit of the country’s contract teachers. These represent 80% of the teaching force. ADEA and the Task Force have further plans to assist other countries such as Congo Brazzaville, Burkina Faso and Togo.

Both the International Task Force on Teachers for EFA and ADEA are partners in the implementation of the African Union’s teacher-related goals through the AU’s Pan-African Conference on Teacher Development (PACTED).