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N° 11
January 2007
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ERNWACA invites collaborative
proposals for the 2007 and 3rd
edition of the Small Grants
Program for Education Research
on the theme “Role of the
University in Shaping African
Society: Values in Higher
Education” from
interdisciplinary university teams
in the network’s member
countries. Deadline is March 15,
2007. Call for proposals
available at www.rocare.org.
ERNWACA and the ECOBANK
Foundation would like to wish a
fruitful year of learning to all.
“Wisdom is like a Baobab tree.
Nobody no can embrace it
alone.” African proverb
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National Activities
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ERNWACA in Mauritania;
Education Research Day
in Côte d’Ivoire
Regional Activities
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2006 Small Grant recipients;
ERNWACA Biennale meetings
Studies and Research
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Integration of ICT in teaching
and learning
ERNWACA Member Profile
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Dr. Laouali Malam Moussa,
ERNWACA-Niger
General Information
Academy of African Languages
(ACALAN) meeting
This issue sponsored by the Ecobank Foundation
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National Activities
● ERNWACA-Mauritania: Welcome to the network!
Mauritania became ERNWACA’s 14th
member country. Researchers elected
Prof. Mouhamed Lemine Kettab, former
diplomat and rector of the University of
Nouakchott, www.univ.nkc.mr, as National
Coordinator. ERNWACA-Mauritania held
its first general assembly on February 24,
2005 after a visit from the national coordinator of ERNWACA-Senegal, received
official government recognition on July
17, 2005, and was recognized by the
ERNWACA Board of Directors on June
23, 2006. Coordinating members met
on May 17, 2006 at Ecole Normale
Supérieure (ENS), under the chairmanship of ENS Director Dr. Mohamed Ould
Amar, and on December 9, 2006 to
name members of the national coordinating committee and create the
national scientific committee, naming as
its president Dr. Abdellahi Ould
Mouhamed Val. The national coordinator along with member Mr. Bilal Ould
Hamza attended the ERNWACA 2006
Biennale meetings in Ouagadougou in
October. ERNWACA-Mauritania is currently organizing meetings with
researchers, national institutions and
government ministries to ensure visibility and support for the national network. Contact: ERNWACA-Mauritania,
c/o ENS, BP 316, Nouakchott, Mauritania,
(222) 632 59 80, mauritania@rocare.org.
● ERNWACA-Senegal now present at
Gaston Berger University in Saint Louis
An ERNWACA hub was created at Gaston Berger University (UGB) in Saint Louis, a
town 265 kilometres northwest of the capital city of Dakar, where ERNWACASenegal has its national coordination office. The group, which currently includes
10 university researchers, intends to organize in February 2007 an ERNWACA seminar on youth abandonment of scientific specialties. Mamadou Abdoul Diop, professor of applied science and technology, is responsible for the UGB antennae of
ERNWACA-Senegal. To know more about UGB, visit www.ugb.sn.
● ERNWACA-Côte d’Ivoire organizes 1st national
day of education research, May 30, 2006, Abidjan
ERNWACA-Côte d’Ivoire organized the first national day of education research on May 30, 2006 at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Abidjan. More than 100 persons from the world of education in Côte d’Ivoire
took part. The Minister of education opened the day, congratulating ERNWACA for its research and for this
initiative. Prof. Tape Gozé, founding member of ERNWACA and ENS Director, thanked Francois Joseph Azoh,
ERNWACA National Coordinator, for his dynamic leadership. M. Koudou Opadou, ERNWACA member,
chaired a round table discussion on “What research for what action in the education sector in Côte d’Ivoire.”
Over 30 papers were presented in eight thematic workshops. ENS, the National pedagogical institute for professional and technical training (IPNEPT) and ERNWACA regional coordination financed the event and seven
national newspapers covered it. The second national day of education research is planned for March 2007.
Consult the national research day report (in French) and the 2005 ERNWACA-Côte d’Ivoire annual
report (also in French) from the Publications section of the ERNWACA Web site.
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● 2nd Ernwaca Café in Guinea,
November 11, 2006, Conakry
ERNWACA-Guinea organized its 2nd Ernwaca Café at the
Guinean Institute for Education Sciences (ISSEG) on
Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 9am. Researchers who participated in a 2006 study on literacy and gender in Guinea
presented the research results and recommendations (see
section 3 below). Then young researchers who received a
2006 ERNWACA Small Grant presented progress on their
study on Djamaa Centers or “second chance schools” in relations to HIV/AIDS prevention. Participants were able to continue discussions over lunch. Read more in the newspaper
article available from the electronic version of ERNWACA
News on the ERNWACA Web site.
● ERNWACA-Gambia trains
clerks of works for GAMWORKS,
June 12-17, 2006, Banjul
In the context of national policy and programmes for capacity building and training programs in the construction industry in Gambia,
GAMWORKS contracted ERNWACA-Gambia to provide a 5-day
training in June 2006 for 31 Clerks of Works. The training focused
on quality assurance and included lectures, question and answer
sessions, practical sessions at Gambia Technical Training Institute
(GTTI) and visits to construction sites.
● National meetings to share
ERNWACA 2006 Biennale
discussions
Several national ERNWACA networks organized meetings to involve members in
discussions of the proceedings of the ERNWACA 2006 Biennale meetings, held in
October in Ouagadougou. In Burkina Faso and Niger, such meetings were held on
October 27, in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire on October 31, and in Togo on
November 11.
● ERNWACA-Sierra Leone preparing to relaunch,
December 28-29, 2006
Under the leadership of Tamba Moseray of the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC),
researchers are gathering in Freetown, the birthplace of ERNWACA in 1989, to prepare
for the relaunch of ERNWACA in Sierra Leone. Joshua Baku of ERNWACA-Ghana
attended the meeting and Mireille Massouka of ERNWACA’s regional office will attend
the January 2007 national workshop to launch the Small Grants program. We look forward to welcoming back our brothers and sisters from Sierra Leone as they once again
contribute to and benefit from participation in the network.
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Regional Activities
Redesign of ERNWACA Web
site, training workshop, March 5-7,
2007, Bamako
ERNWACA 2006 Biennale
Thanks to support from the Open Society Initiative of West Africa
(OSIWA), the ERNWACA Web site is currently being redesigned for
decentralized content management, and, thanks to UEMOA support,
will include an online library. A young Malian company, Zirasun SA, was
retained for the redesign work after a call for proposals. Up to five
member countries may participate in the hands-on training at the AUF
Digital Campus of the University of Bamako March 5-7, 2007 at which
national content will be posted and researcher biodatas updated.
Countries may propose participants by January 31, 2007 or get more
information from Mamadou Lamine Diarra at info@rocare.org.
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RNWACA 2006 Small Grant
meetings: Sharing of research
results and Strategic planning competition results
From October 16-19, 2006 in Ouagadougou, under the auspices of the
Ministry for Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research
(MESSRS), member researchers and ERNWACA partners from 13 member
countries and beyond, education policymakers and practitioners, and students participated in four intensive days designed to share, reflect on and
enhance ERNWACA research processes. Researchers presented results
from a dozen national and transnational studies conducted from 2002 to
2006 on formal and non formal education. Discussions revolved around
the pertinence of ERNWACA research on use of ICT in teaching and learning and on prevention of HIV/AIDS, peace education and life skills development, and innovative and participatory processes to communicate and
stimulate dialogue around research findings.
Strategic planning sessions included sharing of lessons learned on network
management at national level, discussion of “G12 Group of 12,” a national
innovation to attract and support promising researchers, and the need for
ERNWACA to penetrate the world of scientific publication. CODESRIA sent
a representative from Dakar to participate in the session on publication.
IDRC sent a special statement congratulating ERNWACA on recent initiatives at national and regional level to develop partnerships and mobilize
resources. Plan International sent a representative from Ouagadougou
to participate in the session on research partnerships. To contribute to
the same session, the University of Auckland in New Zealand sent three
researchers from the National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori
Development and Advancement. The chairperson of the Educational
Research Network for East and Southern Africa (ERNESA), ERNWACA’s sister network, sent a special statement from Namibia.
Over 80 young researchers – 30% women – comprise the 24 interdisciplinary research teams that received ERNWACA Small Grants for education
research in 2006. The regional scientific committee reviewed a total of 54
proposals from 12 member countries after the April 2006 call for proposals announced in universities and national newspapers. Each team has a
project mentor at national level and is in contact with a national institution interested in the research results. Researchers participate in electronic
discussions to share progress, obstacles, and lessons learned across national
boundaries. A member of each team participated in the research methods
training in Ouagadougou on October 16, 2006 and shared with each other
and with resource persons specialized in research on HIV/AIDS in the education sector, on gender perspectives in higher education, on skills development in relation to the labour market, and on use of ICT in teaching
and learning in Africa. Special thanks to the UNESCO Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) for sending a resource person from Dakar.
The third edition of the ERNWACA Small Grants program for education
research is being launched this January 2007 thanks to continuing support
from UEMOA and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. See ERNWACA
Web site for list of 2006 Small Grant recipients, whose validated research
reports are due in March 2007.
Special thanks to the energetic local organizational committee, the
Burkina authorities, UEMOA sponsorship, Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Swiss Cooperation, IDRC, UNDP-Burkina and the AUF Digital
Campus of the University of Ouagadougou. ERNWACA-Senegal is currently reviewing and editing
papers from the meetings for
an ERNWACA publication in
2007. The ERNWACA 2006
Biennale meetings report is
available from the Publications
page of the ERNWACA web
site.
ERNWCA 2006 Board of Directors
meeting, June 22-23, 2006, Serrekunda, Gambia
Fatou Lamine Faye, Secretary of State for Education of the Republic of Gambia, opened
ERNWACA’s annual Board of Directors meeting on June 22 in Serrekunda, Gambia. Board members approved the 2005 technical and financial report, encouraged launch of the ERNWACA
journal on education research, and renewed the mandate for the regional coordinator for 20062009 and that of Joshua Baku of ERNWACA-Ghana as Board President. The Board recommended
enhanced support for ERNWACA at national level and recruitment of personnel at ERNWACA’s
regional office in Bamako. For more information, see ERNWACA 2005 Annual Report.
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Action Research on
pedagogical integration of
ICT in West and Central Africa
A research methods workshop for the above project was held June 8-10,
2006 at the AUF Digital Campus of the University of Bamako in Mali.
Participants included researchers from Mali, Cameroon, Ghana, and
Senegal and representatives from Malian primary and secondary schools
interested in participating. The ERNWACA-Mali national coordinator and
a representative from the ministry of education participated in the opening ceremony. Thierry Karsenti of the University of Montreal, Abdel Kader
Galy of AUF, Francis Nyamnjoh of the publications department of
CODESRIA, and Alioune Camara of the Acacia program of IDRC served as
resource persons, along with Kathryn Touré, ERNWACA Regional
Coordinator. Workshop participants reviewed tools and procedures for the
selection of participating schools. Since the workshop, schools in the four
participating countries submitted pedagogical projects that integrate
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the quality
of teaching and learning and 16 projects were retained. All school actors
involved in the projects are encouraged to engage in writing as part of the
reflexive action research approach. Researchers will visit the schools monthly
to assist the school-based pedagogical teams to advance on the projects by
reflecting on obstacles, solutions, and lessons learned and draw out promising approaches for a guidebook. The project directors visited the participating schools in Mali on November 20, 2006 and in Senegal on December
14, 2006. They will visit schools in Cameroon in January and in Ghana in
February 2007. A forum is planned for October 2007 in Dakar where some
of the best projects will be presented, along with the guidebook on promising practices. This research is being conducted in collaboration with the
University of Montreal, with a grant from the Acacia program of IDRC. For
a list of participating schools and pedagogical projects retained, see
www.afriquetic.org.
Studies and Research
ERNWACA-Cameroon has
a new publication on ICT!
ERNWACA-Cameroon is on the forefront of national reflections on how Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) can improve teaching and learning. In collaboration with
Ecole Normale Supérieure of the University of Yaoundé I,
ERNWACA published 10 papers (3 in English) by 18 researchers
in “Intégration des TIC dans le processus enseignementapprentissage au Cameroun,” part of the ROCARE-Cameroun
Collection of éditions terroirs. Cost of publication is 8 Euros.
Special thanks to University of Montreal and IDRC Acacia program for technical and financial support. See review of the
publication at
http://thot.cursus.edu/imprimer.asp?no=24937.
Research on anti-retroviral
treatment (ART) in Ghana,
by Joshua Baku, ERNWACA researcher,
December 2005, 44p.
Globally, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV since it
was detected in the early 1980s. By December 2005, more than 25 million
had died of AIDS and related illnesses. Though sub-Saharan Africa accounts
for only 11% of the world’s population, it accounts for about 70% of people
living with AIDS. The national HIV prevalence rate in Ghana in 2004 was 3.6%
and fell to 3.1% by May 2005. This statistic however represents only known
cases. It is estimated that awareness of HIV/AIDS among adults in Ghana is
about 97% among females and 99% among males (GDHS, 1998). Yet, there
is a high level of widespread ignorance about mitigating the impact of AIDS
for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) – including among those living with
the virus. The study aimed to generate empirical information and recommendations about the “as is and as should be” care situation of PLWHA to inform
Ghana’s “Access to ART Campaign” of the Integrated Social Development
Center (ISODEC). Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in the
case studies of the only four antiretroviral centers and of five hospitals. Interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with PLWHA and questionnaires administered to health personnel. Findings include:
● More official attention given to the prevention component of the
HIV/AIDS campaign than the care and treatment component. This
was manifested in fund allocation and official pronouncements.
● An estimated 400 000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana. Of
these 70 000 require care while 30 000 of them need anti-retroviral
drugs. However, though 5167 had sought clinician care, only between
2205 and 2600 of them were on ART.
● Monthly cost of ARV per patient was US$30 (¢270,000) though patients
were made to pay ¢50,000. Total patient expenditure on ART could rise to
¢500,000 depending on how far the patient had to travel to get to the
nearest ART center and how long he/she had to wait at the center.
● All PLWHA involved in the study testified that the drugs had greatly
improved their health.
● Most of the PLWHA identified stigmatization as one of their
greatest challenges. They contended it was the greatest hindrance to
voluntary testing.
● Stigmatization, inadequate health infrastructure and inadequate
supply of health personnel with HIVAIDS orientation came out as the
greatest barriers to the rapid expansion of access to ART.
● Universal access to ART in Ghana within the next 5 years would cost
US$3210 million. Some funding sources towards this objective had
been identified.
● District/Municipal Assemblies did not get themselves sufficiently
involved in PLWHA care efforts.
The authors strongly recommended that the national strategy evolve to
make voluntary counseling and testing more appealing and less frightening to the Ghanaian public. This would include messages to eliminate or
at least minimize stigmatization of PLWHA, shift from emphasis on hopelessness of infection to prospects of prolonging productive life even if
found to be HIV positive, and more focus on PLWHA who have improved
health as a result of ART than those at the verge of death. Government
should of course also continue to expand access to ART, including to district hospitals in the north of the country, and even explore possibilities
for local manufacture of antiretroviral drugs. See research report on ART in
Ghana in the Publications section of the ERNWACA Web site.
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Literacy and Gender in
Guinea
(Problématique de l’alphabétisation dans une
perspective de l’équité en genre et de la réduction de
la pauvreté en Guinée), Fofana Djibril, Aminata Barry
et al., June 2006, 52p.
According to the Guinean Ministry for pre-University Education
(MEPU-EC), 26% of youth between 20 and 24 years of age do not
know how to read and write. It is estimated that 62% of adults are
illiterate – 59% for men and 79% for women. The study aimed to gain
insights into the functioning of literacy centers, particularly in relation
to the specific needs of women. The methodology included a literature review, collect and analysis of documents, and interviews with
69 persons in two densely populated regions of the four in the country – Conakry and Labé. Persons interviewed included literacy center
heads, girls and women taking or having recently completed literacy
courses, non-literate men and women, women intellectuals, and
heads of government literacy services and NGOs working in the area
of literacy. Researchers found that the literacy centers use materials
developed by national literacy services (56%), by the center heads
(12%) or by technical partners (25%). Concepts related to gender and
poverty seem better understood by center heads than by national literacy service personnel due to contact by center heads with foreign
NGOs. Obstacles to women’s literacy include household and farm
responsibilities (27%), lack of resources (18%), insufficient time (12%),
and lack of training (12%). For those who received training, all testified to the acquisition of knowledge and skills: reading, writing,
mathematics, use of instruments to measure, developing client lists,
keeping track of purchases and sales, writing correspondence in
national language. Intellectual women confirmed that literacy allows
them to assume communal development responsibilities, be proud of
their femininity, manage their economic activities, contribute to family harmony and child education, and take responsibility for health
and pregnancy issues. Authors recommended:
● integration of civic content into teaching materials;
● “coming together to share and reflect spaces” for national literacy
service personnel and literacy center heads for enhanced program
implementation;
● wells, solar panels, and mills, in rural and semi-urban areas to
improve learner access and center functioning, as well as provision of
learning materials and construction of centers closer to learners;
● multiplication of initiatives for literacy and education for girls and
women to ensure their efficient participation in the life of the nation;
● campaigns to sensitize regarding the importance of literacy;
● creation within the ministry of a department responsible for
continuing adult education.
The study was conducted for the ADEA Working Group on Non Formal
Education (WGNFE) via the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
(UIL), Hamburg, Germany. The study on literacy and gender in Guinea
(in French) is available on the Publications section of the ERNWACA
Web site. Similar studies on Literacy and Gender in Mali and in Niger,
also financed by UIL in 2005 and 2006, are available as well.
ERNWACA Member Profile
Dr. Laouali Malam Moussa, ERNWACA-Niger national coordinator
Dr. Laouali Malam Moussa
received an MA in linguistics
from the University of Niamey
(Niger), an MA in non formal
education from the University of
Massachusetts (USA), and a PhD
in education sciences from
Florida State University where he
completed his thesis, published
in Niamey in 1999, on PostLiteracy in Niger. He taught at the national Center for training of literacy professionals (CFCA) in the early 1980s and
then at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Niamey in the late
1990s. Malam, or “master” in Hausa, was Director of Literacy
and Adult Education from 1986 to 1992 and 2000 to 2003
and technical advisor to the minister of basic education and
literacy from 2003 to 2005. Since 2005, Dr. Laouali Malam
Moussa is part of a national committee responsible for developing a national policy document on non formal education.
He has conducted a multitude of studies across Africa. As
ERNWACA national coordinator, Mr. Malam Moussa with
other members has been successful in securing official government support for ERNWACA, obtaining office space for
ERNWACA at Ecole Normale Supérieure, organizing an
ERNWACA Café in 2005, launching the ERNWACA 2006 Small
Grants at the national level, co-coordinating a four-country
study on Madrassas and other community-based Koranic
educational centers, and in mobilizing researchers to take
part in national and transnational studies and ERNWACA
activities. Born in 1954 in Zangon Oumara in the center of
Niger, Laouali is married and has four children. He is fluent
in Hausa, French, and English.
Members take on new responsibilities
Congratulations and courage!
❚ Dr. Philippe Dzek Amévigbé, ERNWACA-Togo National Coordinator,
has been named head of mission of the primature of the Republic,
Lome, Togo;
❚ Prof. Mouhamed Lemine Kettab, ERNWACA-Mauritania national
coordinator, was elected President of the Mauritanian section of the
Arab human rights organisation.
❚ M. Pape Gueye, ERNWACA Board member representing the
Senegalese Minister of Education, has been named Director of the
National institute for study and action for the development of
education (INDADE), Dakar, Senegal;
❚ Prof. Nagognimé Urbain Dembele, born near Koutiala in Mali and
currently National Coordinator of ERNWACA-Mali, was decorated on
Friday, December 29, 2006 at the presidential palace in Koulouba, the
hill of power in Bamako, by the President of the Republic as Officer of
the National Order of Mali.
Consult more regularty the ERNWACA Member Profiles database.
See www.rocare.org.
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General Information
“Our languages are key to national and regional development.”
Creating learning
West and Central
colloquium on the role
of Cross-border
languages
environments for
disseminating research
findings
Africa regional
network of UNGEI
May 16-18, 2006, Bamako, Mali
July 17-19, 2006, Bamako, Mali
Mr. Kossi Souley Gbeto of ERNWACATogo represented ERNWACA at this colloquium organized by the African
Academy of Languages (ACALAN), a specialized institution of the African Union
since 2006 – year of African Languages.
According to his report, participants
reflected on and developed action plans
around the following questions. How
can African languages become veritable
development tools? How can they
become languages for the construction
of knowledge? How can we best support multilingualism? Which languages
are important for regional development? What is the role of less spoken
languages? Mr. Gbeto’s trip report is
available from the electronic version of
ERNWACA News on the ERNWACA Web
site. More information at www.acalan.org.
M. Olivier Sagna of Senegal travelled to
ERNWACA regional office in Bamako,
Mali in July 2006 at the request of IDRC
to document communication and lobbying strategies used in the context of the
ERNWACA 2004-2005 transnational
research on integration of ICT in teaching and learning in West and Central
Africa.
Regional ACALAN
UEMOA Center of
Excellence
administrative
procedures
June 5-6, 2006, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso
Mr. Lassana Ballo, ERNWACA financial
and administrative assistant, and Mr.
Amado Ouédraogo, ERNWACA-Burkina
Faso treasurer, participated in a training
workshop in Ouagadougou for finance
officers of the 12 UEMOA Centers of
Excellence in West Africa. It covered
contractual obligations, purchasing procedures, reporting requirements, selection of scholarship laureates, internal
control and audit guidelines.
Panafrican research
agenda for
pedagogical
integration of ICT
September 11-13, 2006, Dakar,
Senegal
Representatives from universities and
research institutes in a dozen countries
across the continent and from the
University of Montreal in Canada attended
this IDRC-sponsored workshop to discuss
shared research priorities in trying to
understand relations between ICT pedagogical integration and improved teaching
and learning in Africa. Paul Dougna of the
African Development Bank (ADB)
attended as an ERNWACA Board member
as did Kathryn Touré, ERNWACA regional
coordinator. For additional information,
acamara@idrc.org.sn.
Workshop on Acacia
dissemination
strategies
October 30 - November 1, 2006,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mamadou Lamine Diarra, ERNWACA
regional information officer, participated in this workshop to share strategies on disseminating research findings
from projects funded by the Acacia program of IDRC. For additional information on Acacia,visit
www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5895-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.
October 18-19, 2006,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Ms. Anne-Marie Ettien Ablan of
ERNWACA-Côte d’Ivoire represented
ERNWACA at a capacity-building workshop organized by UNESCO/BREDA and
UNICEF’s regional office in Dakar in the
context of the United Nations Girls
Education Initiative (UNGEI) for the
West and Central Africa regional network. The network is expected to push
the agenda to accelerate girls’ education. For additional information visit
www.ungei.org or contact regional UNGEI
focal point at ungeiwcaro@unicef.org.
Meeting to prepare
transnational study on
HIV/AIDS
October 18, 2006, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso
ERNWACA-Benin and ERNWACA-Ghana
researchers met with study coordinator
Francois-Joseph Azoh of ERNWACA and
Yacouba Yaro of CERFODES, institutional member of ERNWACA-Burkina
Faso, to prepare a transnational study
on the impact of HIV/AIDS on teachers
and teaching in West Africa. Additional
countries participating include Niger
and Guinea. A methods workshop is
planned to take place in Cotonou, Benin
in early 2007. This ERNWACA study is
funded by USAID. For additional information: azohfj@yahoo.fr.
Supervision meeting
for study on Koranic
education
November 1-2, 2006, Dakar,
Senegal
Makaireh Njie and Yves Benett of
ERNWACA-Gambia; Laouali Malam
Moussa of ERNWACA-Niger; Ousmane
Gueye and other ERNWACA-Senegal
members met to review progress and
tools for the above 4-country study being
conducted for the Unesco Institute for
Lifelong Learning (UIL). Mali is the fourth
participating country. For additional
information:
gambia@ernwaca.org or niger@rocare.org.
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Violence against
Working Group on
World Teachers Day
children in West and
Central Africa, UN
conference
Education Sector
Analysis (WGESA)
message
November 20, 2006, Dakar, Senegal
Prof. Ousmane Gueye, ERNWACASenegal national coordinator, represented ERNWACA at this conference.
Senegal’s First Lady also attended as did
a children’s representative, several government ministry representatives, and
NGOs including Plan International.
Recommendations from a UN report on
violence again children were presented.
For additional information, download
study at:
www.violencestudy.org/IMG/pdf/English.pdf.
GNAT research
September 19-20, 2006, Paris,
France
ERNWACA
Regional
Coordinator
Kathryn Touré represented ERNWACA at
the WGESA steering committee meeting.
Members approved the 2007 work plan,
subsequently approved by the ADEA
executive committee. Activities will
include continued education sector peer
review work in Mauritius, Gabon and
Nigeria; formative research to improve
education policy implementation; case
studies on sector wide approach (SWAP)
and fast track initiative (FTI); and a training seminar in southern Africa. Members
also recommended progress on intentions to localize group coordination in
Africa. For additional information:
i.bah-lalya@iiep.unesco.org.
methods training
workshop
December 5-9, 2006, Accra, Ghana
Joshua Baku, ERNWACA-Ghana General
Secretary, was the main resource person
for the Ghana National Association of
Teachers (GNAT) training workshop on
research methodology, December 5-9,
2006. Mr. Baku was responsible for modules on the research process, writing
research proposals, and writing research
reports. He drew extensively on
ERNWACA materials and experience to
prepare the training modules. For additional information:
CIES annual
conference
February 25 - March 1, 2007
The Comparative International Education
Society (CIES) is organizing its 51st conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Paper
abstracts on "Engaging our Differences"
were accepted through December 15. See:
October 5
Here is a message from the UNESCO
education portal for this day, celebrated
October 5:
We are eternally grateful for your dedication to the teaching profession, so
essential for all of society. You continue
to teach despite all the challenges you
face. We recognize the merit of your initiatives to open doors of knowledge
and tolerance to each girl and boy. We
are conscious of what your profession
demands, as well as your responsibilities
and rights. We recognize the difficulty
of your mission and know that training
and favorable working conditions are
necessary for quality teaching. We congratulate you for the attention you give
to children with special needs, knowing
each child is unique and special. We
appreciate your capacity, gained over
the years, to make yourselves available
to your students, listen to them, and
help them learn to learn and know that
they are responsible for their learning.
Signed by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director
General of UNESCO; Juan Somavia,
Director General of the International
Labor Office (ILO); Mark Malloch Brown,
UNDP program administrator; Carol
Bellamy, UNICEF General Director.
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