CAMEROON
National
Workshop for Education Partners
The
UNESCO Yaounde Office (Cameroon), along with the EFA Sponsors, the
Ministry of Education and the Cameroonian National Commission for
UNESCO, organised a National Workshop for Education Partners on
20th April 2001.
Political
authorities, representatives of ministries, ambassadors; representatives
of political parties represented in the National Assembly, the Heads
of Agencies of the United Nations system, representatives of bilateral
and multilateral co-operation agencies, NGO representatives, Education
Secretaries (private education sector), the media, representatives
of teachers' unions, the representative of the parent-teacher association
and the representative of the private sector took part in the workshop.
The
workshop was held in the presence of the Minister of Education.
Two presentations were made respectively on "The State of Education
in Cameroon" and "the Dakar Framework of Action and guidelines for
the preparation of the National EFA Action Plan". These presentations
were followed by wide-ranging discussions on the future of EFA in
Cameroon.
At
the end of the workshop, the participants adopted the list of members
of the Multi-sectoral EFA Co-ordinating and Follow-up Committee
and the EFA Drafting Committee as proposed by the Minister of Education.
Further,
the Yaounde Office prepared a SPPD (Support Services for policy
and programme development) project document entitled " Support for
follow-up to the Dakar Forum on EFA: Preparation of National (Cameroon)
and Sub-regional (Central Africa) Action Plans ". This project document
with a budget of $95,000 was endorsed by the Local Committee for
Project Scrutiny (CLEP) set up by UNDP Yaounde. It will be jointly
signed by the UNESCO and UNDP Representatives in the presence of
the Minister of Education.
A
meeting of the members of the National Multi-sectoral EFA Co-ordinating
and Follow-up Committee and those of the drafting team for the EFA
National Action Plan is scheduled for 29th May 2001 at the UNESCO
Yaounde Office.
Contact
: Paul MPAYI MANA,
Education
expert, UNESCO Yaoundé
E-mail : p.mpayimana@unesco.org
|
