Donors and projects

Examples of collaborative achievements in 2002–2004

Afghanistan – funds provided through UNESCO (Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden), and funding from Germany
Missions to prepare an Action Plan for Higher Education; five training workshops.

Algeria – funds provided by UNESCO:
Support to the reform of the education system.

Cameroon – African Development Bank funding:
Training courses on school mapping, educational costs and financing, communication systems, project preparation and management.

Dominican Republic – funds from the Secretary of State for Education
Technical support for the implementation of a school-mapping process, and for assessment of educational costs.

Mali – national funds
Overhauling the information system for secondary schools.

Mauritania – World Bank loan funding:
Continued support for school-mapping (a methodological handbook, practical exercises, training courses, and a final report produced). Completed activities also included support to the statistical information system, and a study of educational costs and financing.

Morocco – World Bank loan funding:
Continued activities to assess adult literacy programmes in Morocco, including a seminar (50 participants).

Nepal – funds provided by Danida:
Capacity building for data collection (workshops on school mapping and indicator systems; steps to integrate a geographical Information system within the educational information system).

Niger – European Union funding:
Technical assistance for scaling up school mapping to the entire country.

Education and HIV/AIDS in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region – Japanese fund trust
National reports on the response to the pandemic in 14 countries