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Information
note on the sub-Saharan Africa conference
on Education for All |
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Introduction |
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 The
EFA 2000 Assessment is a major, global endeavour that aims to
enable the participating countries (i) to construct a comprehensive
picture of their progress towards their own Education for All
goals since the World Conference on Education for All (Jomtien,
1990), (ii) to identify priorities and promising strategies
for overcoming obstacles and accelerating progress, and (iii)
to revise their national plans of action accordingly. The Assessment
process, benefiting policy-makers, planners and implementers,
provides an excellent opportunity to, once again, refocus the
attention on basic education and reinvigorate efforts to meet
basic learning needs. |
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The
Assessment exercise involves a number of activities at different
level. At the national level, focus is placed on enhancement
of national debate on new policies and strategies for the next
century. To stimulate such a national dialogue, country reports
are being prepared, reflecting on past experiences, identifying
directions for the coming century. Based on the individual country
reports, a regional synthesis report will be prepared at the
regional level to identify regional trends and issues. These
will be presented and discussed at the regional conferences
in order to set new goals and formulate strategies for collaboration
in priority areas and to prepare a regional message to be delivered
at the global summit. |
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Aims
and objectives |
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The
overall aim of the All SS Africa Conference is to formulate
Africa's way forward in the 21st century with regard to the
provision of learing opportunities for all, through a reflection
on the progress made around Africa in the area of EFA since
Jomtien 1990. The Conference should be seen as a beginning of
a new phase in the EFA movement, rather then the end of the
Jomtien decennium Focus will be on building new visions and
partnerships in the African context. |
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The
specific objectives of the Conference are to: |
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assess the impact made in the areas of planning, policy
and implementation with regard to national EFA goals set
in the Jomtien decenium (specifying the context and
identifying major trends); |
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reflect on specific problems and challenges Africa is
facing in the area of meeting (basic) learning needs of
its people (strengths and weaknesses); |
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formulate
recommendations/strategies for action to move EFA into
the 21st century (prospects). |
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Programming |
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The
major theme of the Conference has been defined as: 'Education
for African Renaissance in the Globalised Economy, Communication
and Culture'. The programme of the conference will be
structured on the following regional priority issues:
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the role of education in national and regional developmental
goals with specific reference to social, cultural and
economic development and its impact on education |
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curriculum content relevance and quality |
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the
role of the state and the transformation of the education
system, its structure and function |
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building
institutional capacity in education planning, management,
research and information support systems |
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partnership
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Participation |
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The
expanded vision of Jomtien stresses the importance of broad
mobilisation and participation. In the preparations of the
country reports the importance of consultation with all stakeholders
have been emphasised. This stakeholder-based participation
will be reflected in the participant's list of the All Africa
Conference, as well as in its programming. Country teams comprise
representatives of Government, civil society and NGOs.
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