Cross-national Training Workshop on Evaluating NFE and Literacy Programmes for Youth and Adults (20 - 23 February 2006, Hamburg, Germany) 1) Background This Workshop is organised by the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) in the context of a project on ‘reinforcing national capacities to evaluate NFE and literacy programmes for youth and adults.’  This project is funded by the 2005 UNESCO extra-budgetary programme on capacity building for EFA programme. The main goals of the project are improving the quality of learning and enhancing programme impacts of NFE, literacy and adult education programme and to build capacities of the providers in four areas: learner evaluation, curriculum evaluation, progress monitoring, and impact evaluation. The first and current cycle, from January 2005 to March 2006, is focusing on deepening the understanding of in-built evaluation concepts and preparing operational plans at national level. Subsequent cycles of training will focus on one of the four areas of evaluation: 1) Leaner evaluation with an emphasis on learning achievements and self-evaluation, 2) Curriculum evaluation focusing on materials, methods and content, 3) Monitoring and progress report, and 4) Impact evaluation. The national project partners of this project are: ○ Department of Nonformal Education, Ministry of Education, Botswana ○ Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Gender, Culture and Social Services, Kenya ○ National Centre for Literacy and Adult Education, Malawi ○ Directorate of Adult Basic Education, Ministry of Education, Namibia ○ Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Makerere University, Uganda Prior to the workshop, project partners are preparing national situation analysis papers reviewing policies and analysing current practices in evaluating NFE/literacy programme.  These papers are prepared by country teams composed of NFE/literacy specialists from government and NGO providers, district and regional level officers, EMIS/statistics officers, multilateral or bilateral development partners and a UNESCO education officer.   2) Objectives of the Meeting Based on the analysis of the national situation analysis papers in the Workshop, project partners will prepare national strategies for developing in-built evaluation system in their NFE/literacy programme. General information of the workshop National situation analysis papers ○ Botswana ○ Kenya ○ Malawi ○ Namibia ○ Uganda All the papers in MS-Word/WINZIP Post Workshop Note by Peter Easton Contact:  Rika Yorozu (r.yorozu@unesco.org)