UNESCO IN THE WORLD — INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

1995 Consortia and sub-regional networks organized 1996 The start of IIEP’s Sixth Medium-Term Plan (1996-2001) 1997 Establishment of a branch of IIEP for Latin America and the Caribbean, Buenos Aires

STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS, CONSORTIA AND NETWORKS The decentralization of activities, the strengthening of partnerships and inter-institutional co-operation, such as the creation of consortia and new regional and sub-regional networks, became a focus of action in IIEP’s approved Sixth Medium-term Plan (1996-2001). As well as continuing to develop the worldwide network of national associations of former trainees and its publications distribution network created in 1993 in close co-operation with the relevant services in UNESCO, IIEP reinforced its professional co-operation with international organizations, bilateral agencies and foundations interested in its spheres of activity and enhanced its support to international co-operative groups, such as the aforementioned Working Group on Education (IWGE), the Southern Educational Research Initiative (SERI) (16) and the Association for the Development of African Education (ADEA) whose Secretariat is located at IIEP Headquarters. ADEA provides a partnership framework for African Ministers of Education and the main training and development agencies. The Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ), (17) which groups Ministers of Education and Culture from several countries in Southern Africa, was launched in 1995, following training programmes which had been jointly organized with IIEP in this sub-region. SACMEQ is a network of ministers which functions like an NGO and which advises key decision-makers on general policy. Its research programme is drawn up by consensus. Following the holding of a regional workshop on the decentralized management of primary education (Kathmandu, Nepal, 1994), the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions in Educational Planning (ANTRIEP) (18) was created in 1995. Its purpose is to share experience among Asian institutions working in the region and to create synergy among them.

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Chairmen of the Governing Board Sir Sydney CAINE (United Kingdom) 1963-1970 Torsten HUSÉN (Sweden) 1970-1980 Malcolm S. ADISESHIAH (India) 1980-1990 Victor L. URQUIDI (Mexico) 1990-1994 Lennart WOHLGEMUTH (Sweden) since 1995	Directors of IIEP Philip H. COOMBS (USA) 1963-1968 Raymond POIGNANT (France) 1969-1974 Hans N. WEILER (USA) 1974-1977 Michel DEBEAUVAIS (France) 1977-1982 Sylvain LOURIÉ (France) 1982-1988 Jacques HALLAK (France) since 1988	Malcolm S. Adiseshiah (India) Deputy Director-General of UNESCO from 1963 to 1970, Chairman of the IIEP Governing Board from 1980 to 1990 First, the International Institute for Educational Planning will be UNESCO’s intellectual home of the future; second, the Institute will be a means of assistance to the educational systems of Member States in performing the impossible tasks now facing them. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Institute, 1988 Federico Mayor (Spain) Director-General of UNESCO since 1987 Although the Institute forms an integral part of UNESCO, it has its own statutes and enjoys great intellectual freedom. Its Governing Board is composed of representatives of the principal bodies concerned in the United Nations System and the World Bank and of high-level international figures, and it determines the nature of the Institute’s training, research and publication activities. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Institute, 1988 Michel Debeauvais (France) Director of IIEP from 1977 to 1982 What has planning to offer in the face of the unresolved world crises: problems of unemployment for graduates, exclusion from school and the labour market, female inequalities, regional disparities[...] etc? Without claiming to be in a position to solve the problems alone, using more complex techniques, planning can nevertheless, albeit modestly, contribute to social dialogue by providing information to all those concerned. ‘Les évolutions de la planification de l’éducation dans le Tiers-Monde depuis 1960’. In: La construction des politiques d’éducation et de formation, PUF, 1995
Torsten Husén (Sweden) Chairman of the Governing Board of IIEP from 1970 to 1980 The training programme of the Institute was aimed at young civil servants over a period of an academic year and was, on the whole, very successful. During my time as Chairman, IIEP trained some 400 individuals, among whom quite a number later became Ministers of Education in their home countries. Message for the Fiftieth Anniversary of UNESCO, 1996
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FOOTNOTES:

(16) This initiative, which encompasses Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, came into being in 1993 in co-operation with the Institute of International Education at the University of Stockholm.

(17) SACMEQ, Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality, receives financial subventions from Italy and the Netherlands.

(18) ANTRIEP at present groups together planning institutions in eight Asian countries.

TO KNOW MORE (see also CD-ROM, Vol. I)

• IIEP Newsletter. UNESCO-IIEP, 1983. (English, French, Spanish)
• Educational Planning in Practice. XXVth Anniversary Workshop, UNESCO-IIEP, 1989. (Booklet 5). (English, French)
• The Prospects for Educational Planning. Françoise Caillods, UNESCO-IIEP, 1989. (English, French)
• IIEP Basic Texts. UNESCO-IIEP, 1989. (English, French)
• Investing in the Future: Setting Educational Priorities in the Developing World. Jaques Hallak, Paris, UNESCO-IIEP/Oxford/Pergamon Press, 1990. (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
• Education Policy-planning Process: An Applied Framework. Wadi D. Haddad, UNESCO-IIEP, 1995. (English, French)
• Searching for Relevance: The Development of Work Orientation in Basic Education. Wim Hoppers, UNESCO-IIEP, 1996. (Fundamentals of Educational Planning, 52). (English)