In This Issue... back a page | next page In this issue, we begin a series of articles on the strategies used within the DAE to strengthen capacities in subSaharan Africa. The first two articles focus on country working groups and DAE's IntraAfrican Exchange Program. Other approaches will be presented in coming issues. In spite of all the development efforts made over the last three decades, most countries in subSaharan Africa lack the strategic capacities—analytical and management capacities as well as adequate and sustainable structures and institutional procedures—needed for the formulation, the development and the implementation of effective policies. In sub-Saharan Africa, national capacities that may be scarce and hard to mobilize, because of the weakness of institutions, have translated into inadequate policies which have harmed the development of the region. Much remains to be done in order for Ministers of Education to be able, at all times, to have access to the skills, tools, and information required when they must make policy decisions. One concern of the DAE is to contribute to the development of capacities so that the decisions made by Ministers of Education in sub-Saharan Africa will be the best possible, based on in-country processes. To that end, different strategies are used within the DAE, including the constitution of country working groups and the Association's IntraAfrican Exchange Program. The publication of a double issue, in which we present the first two articles of a series on capacity-building as well as the activities of two working groups—The Teaching Profession and Non Formal Education—will enable the DAE Secretariat to produce the following documents in time for the next meeting of the Caucus of Ministers which will be held in Geneva in October: a DAE general information brochure, information leaflets for each of the nine working groups, and a catalogue of publications. Access to these documents via the the World Wide Web on Internet is also planned. The next issue of the DAE newsletter will be distributed in October.

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