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CONSULTATION WORKSHOP
OF EFA COORDINATORS
OF THE FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES IN AFRICA
Dakar 28 June - 2 July, 2004
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UNESCO Office in Dakar (BREDA), in collaboration with the Intergovernmental
Agency of the Francophonie (AIF) and the Conference of the Ministers
of Education of French-Speaking Countries(CONFEMEN), is organising in
Dakar (Senegal) from June 28 to July 2, 2004, a consultation workshop
of national EFA teams of the French-speaking countries in Africa.
BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
 In
the framework of the convention between intergovernmental Intergovernmental
Agency of the Francophonie (AIF) and the Regional Office of UNESCO for
Education in Africa (BREDA) concerning the collaboration with the French-speaking
Member States of Sub-Saharan region in the preparation and the validation
of their EFA national action plan, the Director of BREDA, the Director
of Education, Technical and Vocational Training of AIF and the Secretary-General
of the Conference of the Ministers of Education of the French-Speaking
Countries (CONFEMEN) have met to evaluate the progress made within the
framework of this agreement.
To date, all the French-speaking countries have more or less advanced
at their disposal versions of their EFA plans that still require technical
support for their improvement and for their effective consistency with
the various strategic and macroeconomic framework of planning (DSRP;
UNDAF; PPTE; Fast-track; OMD, RESEN...).
The analyse of the plans available to the BREDA and the interventions
carried out with some EFA national teams showed that many actors of
the EFA follow-up need capacity building taking into account the importance
of the exercise and of the responsibility which falls to them.
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is order to overcome these insufficiencies that AIF, BREDA and CONFEMEN
took theinitiative to gather the members of the EFA national teams in
order to give a progress report on the state of progress, to record
the constraints with the finalisation of the EFA plans and to identify
the supports necessary to the continuation of work.
In the sidelines of this consultation, BREDA will join together the
participants of the beneficiary countries of the Italian project for
the finalization of EFA plans (Benin, Togo, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Chad,
Burkina) for consultation and development.
OBJECTIVES
 General
objective: To strengthen the capacities of the head of structures
in charge of the elaboration, the implementation and the follow-up of
the EFA national plans.
Specific objectives:
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To make the point on the state of progress of the preparation procedure
and finalisation of EFA national action plans;
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To strengthen the technical capacity of the EFA national teams in
charge of EFA in the field of sectoral analysis and formulation of
educational policies;
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To identify the fields of future actions in order to speed up
the finalisation process of the EFA plans and to support the research
on financing for their efficient implementation.
STRATEGY
 The
work of the meeting will take place in the premises of the Regional
Office of UNESCO for Education from 28 June to 2 July, 2004. The delegation
of each country will be made up of one EFA coordinator and one specialist
in formulation of educational policies who have taken an active part
in the elaboration of EFA plan .
Specialists in analysis and formulation of educational policies will
be present for presentations on the most relevant topics and to guarantee
better exchanges with the participants.
During the meeting, each delegation will have to present a synthesis
of maximum three pages on state of progress of the preparation/finalisation
of the EFA plan of their country, and which reflect the constraints
recorded as well as future actions proposals for the continuation of
the process.
The meeting between various participants will allow to exchange experiments
and to be informed on specificities of the other countries. Suitable
analysis and planning will be put at their disposal in order to give
them the opportunity to get involved more efficiently in the finalisation
of EFA documents.
RESULTS
 Result
1: An established state of progress of the finalisation process
of the EFA/NPA and the identified constraints.
Result 2: The technical teams in charge of EFA will be
better equipped better, better informed for the analyse of the EFA action
plans and for a better follow-up/evaluation of their implementation.
Result 3: Actions to be undertaken and of the methods
of support to the countries will be clearly identified.
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
All French-speaking countries benefiting from the AIF-BREDA agreement
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Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea,
Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, Chad, Togo, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d'Ivoire
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