The 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa
(Maputo, Mozambique, May 5-9, 2008)

Program: Draft AgendaAgen

"Beyond Primary Education: Challenges and Approaches to Expanding Learning Opportunities in Africa "

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ADEA 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa Beyond Primary Education:

Challenges and Approaches to Expanding Learning Opportunities in Africa

Part IV:Side Meetings

Exhibition

An exhibition will be set up in the hall of the Conference Center. It will be organized in several sections: "

- an information area on the activities and publications of ADEA and its eleven working groups (education sector analysis, communication for education and development, early childhood development, non-formal education, distance education and open learning, higher education, finance and education, books and learning materials, the teaching profession, education statistics, mathematics and science education); "

- a stand on the activities of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Mozambique;

- several stands on initiatives mounted by ADEA's partner organizations;

- a media area where a series of films on education in African will be projected;

- an exhibition designed by France's Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie on science and technology and what they imply for Africa's development.The exhibition, entitled "When Africa Awakes", is in four main parts: the challenge of food security, the right to health for all, the natural riches of Africa, a vision of the continent's future.

The exhibition will be inaugurated by the heads of state immediately after the official opening session of the Biennale.

Sunday 4 May, 2008

8:00 - 18:00 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Higher Education - Steering Committee Meeting

9:00 - 12:00 Conference Centre "

FAWE - Steering Committee Meeting

9:00 - 12:00 Conference Centre

ADEA Working Groups on Education Statistics, Education Sector Analysis and Finance and Education - Steering Committee Meeting

This will be the first Steering Committee Meeting of the new Working Group that emerged from the merger between the ADEA Working Groups on Education Statistics, Education Sector Analysis and Finance and Education.

14:00 - 17:00 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Early Childhood Development

The objective of the session is to present the argument that it is critical to include at least one year of pre-primary as part of basic education towards achieving the goal of quality primary education. The recommendations from the session will feed into the discussions at the parallel session on Going Beyond Primary Education: Moving Towards 9-10 Years of Education for All.

14:00 - 17:00 Conference Centre

FTI Evaluation Oversight Committee - FTI External Evaluation: ADEA Input on the Terms of Reference

The EFA-Fast Track Initiative has supported progress on EFA in Africa for almost 6 years. The FTI Steering Committee has commissioned a comprehensive external evaluation of its effectiveness. This side meeting will discuss the evaluation questions and design features that may determine FTI's effectiveness, value added and future directions.

18:00 - 20:00 Conference Centre

Briefing meeting for session chairs, panelists, respondents and rapporteurs

The quality of the leadership and substance of the sessions depends to a great extent on the performance of chairs, panelists, respondents and rapporteurs. For this reason, the ADEA attaches great importance to how these key people prepare for their sessions. The briefing meeting will discuss the preparation of the various sessions for the session chairs, panelists, respondents and rapporteurs involved.

Monday 5 May, 2008 8:00 - 9:00 Venue to be announced

ADEA Working Group on Education Sector Analysis - Information Meeting

This will be a general information meeting for members of the Steering Committee of the ADEA Working Group on Education Sector Analysis.

8:30 - 12:30 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Education Statistics - Educational Planning Capacity Building

9:00 - 11:00 Avenida

GTZ - EFA-FTI Capacity Development Guidelines: Introduction

Guidelines have been developed by the FTI CD Task Team to support the design of a strategic, participatory approach to capacity development in the education sector. These CD guidelines are intended to help stakeholders at the country level assess education sector plans and implementation capacity, identify capacity gaps and existing resources and set priorities for a capacity development strategy. The outcome of the analysis generated by these guidelines should be a strengthened and shared agenda for CD. Use of the guidelines should enhance the feasibility of the sector plan and will provide a sound basis for the donors' appraisal as part of the FTI endorsement process.

9:00 - 13:00 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Non-Formal Education - Steering Committee Meeting

9:00 - 14:30 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Higher Education - Steering Committee Meeting (continued)

11:30 - 12:30 Avenida

UNESCO International Institute of Educational Planning - Capacity development: how can we avoid failure?

UNESCO's mandate includes a strong component of "capacity development": much of its work aims at strengthening the capacities of its Member States through various means, such as training, technical advice, policy seminars and international conferences. Whereas many capacity-development programmes have regularly strengthened the skills of individuals, they have seldom succeeded in transforming the organizations to which these individuals belong, including the ministries of education. In preparation of a policy paper on capacity-development in educational planning and management, this side meeting will discuss with the Ministers of Education various issues in order to examine the reasons for this relative failure and to propose innovative and relevant capacity-development policies and strategies.

Tuesday 6 May, 2008 7:30 - 8:45 Venue to be announced

African Development Bank and UNESCO - Kigali Call for Action: an expanded vision for basic education

Since Jomtien (1990) and after Dakar's Forum on EFA (2000) most of the stakeholders have invested mainly in primary education, and carried out reforms in lower and upper secondary levels without looking at education as a system in a holistic manner. Introducing a basic education of a minimum of 9 years, that is holistic, inclusive, coherent and seamless, and giving priority to the preparation of clear policies and national plans towards its implementation is considered urgent for the achievement of EFA goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The expanded basic education will provide the knowledge base and competencies to the learners to improve their lives and facilitate their entry into the world of work, prepare them through skills training to contribute to social and economic development of their country and/or continue to further studies.

18:00 - 19:00 Venue to be announced "

ADEA Working Groups on Education Statistics - NESIS Eye

In this side-meeting the ADEA Working Groups on Education Statistics will present the National Education Statistical Information Systems (NESIS) Eye. NESIS Eye is a new software package that allows users to view, modify and graph country data for African countries. A concerted effort will be made to present datasets on post-primary education.

Wednesday 7 May, 2008 7:30 - 8:45 Venue to be announced " Meeting of the Assistant Director General for Education of UNESCO Theme of the meeting: Framework for partnership building for Basic Education in Africa.

18:00 - 19:00 Conference Centre "

ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials

The ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials will organize a book launch of the publication on Reading Promotion. It will also launch the publication of the French versions of three existing publications.

19:30 - 20:30 Hotel VIP

ADEA Working Group on Distance Education and Open Learning - restricted technical meeting

19:30 - 20:30 Venue to be announced

ADEA Working Group on Communication, Education and Development - Round Table

During the round table discussion organized by the ADEA Working Group on Communication, Education and Development (COMED), African journalists and African Ministers of Education will address issues related to the importance of communication for education and development.

Tuesday May 2 - Monday May 12, 2008

The ADEA Secretariat and the Working Group on Communication for Education and Development (WGCOMED) - Study visit of the African Education Journalism Award.

The study visit is offered to the winners of the 4th and 5th African Education Journalism Award competitions. Its aim is to contribute to journalists' professional development and to sensitize editors-in-chief to the importance of educational issues. The study visit will take place in Maputo and Johannesburg. In Maputo, most of the sessions will be held at the Joaquim Chissano Conference Center. The first session will begin on Tuesday May 2 at 9:00 a.m., at the Joaquim Chissano Conference Center.