Meeting
of EFA Partners for the Africa Region
Antananarivo, Panorama Hotel Madagascar,
5 May 2001
I.The context
The
EFA follow up is a collective responsibility that all educational partners,
at national, regional and international levels, have agreed to assume.
In keeping with the role mandated to UNESCO "in coordinating EFA partners
and maintaining their collaborative momentum" and in order to support
the Education For All movement in sub-Saharan Africa, the UNESCO Regional
Office for Education in Africa (BREDA) is committed to organizing and
reinforcing synergy with EFA regional partners through consensus and
collaborative action.
In this connection, it has initiated a draft regional action plan as
an EFA follow up . This is a mechanism that will serve to mobilise
and co-ordinate support from all our educational partners to all Member
States of the African Region to achieve the specific objectives in their
EFA national action plans .
II.Objectives
of the meeting
The
objectives of the meeting are the following :
