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Forum of African
Parliamentarians for Education
(FAPED)
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The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA) has undertaken
to support a joint initiative of the Senegalese and Mauritian Parliamentarians
to create the African Forum of Parliamentarians on Education (FAPED).
The question is to get the African Parliamentarians involved in the promotion
of education policies in the framework of broadening partnership with
the civil society, the socio-cultural and political actors.
Therefore, BREDA intends to follow concretely to a resolution of MINEDAF
VII (Durban 1998) which was appealing to the mobilisation of Parliamentarians.
It happens very opportunely that all the contemporary African Parliamentarians,
because of their democratic nature and plural composition, are more and
more open to issues of society : Population, Environment, Drug, Corruption,
New Information and Communication Technology, Poverty etc.
The Forum which is going to be created aims at the following objectives
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To sensitise more the Parliamentarians on the
issues of education;
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To enable the Parliamentarians to ensure the follow-up
of the International Conferences (Jomtien, Salamanca, Dakar,
MINEDAF) by a periodic assessment during budgetary sessions;
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To strengthen the capacity of the Parliamentarians
by providing them element of advocacy. In relation with UNDP
which has a recruitment programme for Assistant Parliamentarians,
the Forum will help in the setting up of the body;
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To strengthen the resources allocated to Education
by voting of more substantial funds;
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To facilitate the vote of laws on education;
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To give to the Parliamentarians belonging to different
geo-cultural zones a setting of exchange and co-operation;
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To support the Conferences of Ministers of Education
in Africa (MINEDAF);
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To make the Parliamentarians play if necessary
a mediation role in the outcome of school and university crisis.
To set up the project, the following Plan of Action
is scheduled:
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First Meeting of the Contact
Group in Dakar, from 21 to 23 January, 2002. The group comprises
the following countries : Cameroon, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Kenya,
Namibia, Nigeria, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal;
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Constitutive General Assembly in Port Louis, in December 2002,
outside the Conference of the Ministers of Education in Africa (MINEDAF
VIII).
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