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HIV/AIDS and education
Studying the impact, building capacities, co-ordinating strategies and sharing information

>	Action research

	Preventing and mitigating impact of HIV/AIDS on education: an urgent priority in a growing number of countries The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a major threat to achieving Education for All (EFA) goals. Priority measures focus on:
	Sector leadership and developing policies
	Data collection
	Mobilizing resources to sustain quality of education
	Staff protection and enrolment
	An action research programme was launched in 2003, with 5 objectives:
	Identify problems; prioritize needs
	Formulate policy responses (personnel management, ethics, training, orphans and vulnerable children's needs . . .)
	Develop a school-based database
	Design effective mitigation and prevention based on qualitative assessment
	Enable stakeholders to act effectively (support to projects designed by administrators, teachers, communities ...)
	Tools, research and interventions from which planners can quickly learn The action research programme is now operational in Malawi, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania Five diagnostic studies are implemented jointly with ministries of education and partners. They span the Impact of HIV/AIDS on:
	Educational leadership and policy
	Educational governance
	Selected schools and communities
	Enrolment, attendance and instruction in district schools
	Tertiary educational institutions A final handbook will allow for replicating the research elsewhere.

	Organizing Education Sector Responses to HIV and AIDS: Regional Workshop on Analyzing the Responses of Teacher Training Institutions to HIV and AIDS
	Senior educational planners, policy makers, college principals and other stakeholders met at the invitation of IIEP and BREDA at a regional workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, 11–13 July 2007 to share the findings of four studies exploring the responses of teacher training institutions to HIV and AIDS in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia.
	The workshop concluded that TTIs need to respond more rapidly to HIV and AIDS by creating a framework for action such as institutional policies, structures, programmes, action plans and budget lines for HIV and AIDS activities. In follow-up a regional network for promoting policy dialogue and sharing of information and ideas on ways of enhancing the capacity of TTIs to respond to HIV and AIDS will be established and animated by BREDA. See the main recommendations emanating from the workshop >>
	A synthesis report bringing together all the four country studies will be published on this website shortly.


	Kenya: strengthening teacher education in HIV and AIDS Between May and July 2006, IIEP conducted a study examining the responses of teacher training colleges to HIV and AIDS in Kenya. Download


	Implementing a school-based data collection system The Impact of HIV/AIDS on enrolment, attendance and instruction in district schools Schools in a district will record student attendance, teacher presence, orphan presence, sick leave, transfers and teacher deaths. The system is known as DEMMIS (District Educational Monitoring and Management Information System).

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