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| Dakar
+5 EFA Framework
Review of the implementation of the Dakar
(Dakar, 13th to 15th on June 2005, Hotel Ngor Diarama, Dakar) |
Background
 In
1990, at Jomtien, Thailand, the international community set itself a monumental
challenge: to provide basic education for all the people of the world
and reduce illiteracy. Ten years after, it was clear that the challenge
before the international community remained enormous.
The international goal of EFA was given a new vitality at the World Education
Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in April 2000. The Dakar Framework for Action,
adopted by the Forum, laid out a set of goals and strategies for achieving
EFA. Specifically, it defined six goals for the international community
to achieve by 2015. It also reaffirmed the right to education as a fundamental
human right.
Five years after the Dakar Forum, it seems imperative to look back at
educational development and change in Africa. Data is being collected
and analysed. National, regional and sub-regional status reports are being
put together. National EFA plans have started to be implemented. The year
2005 provides a unique opportunity to assess the extent to which progress
is being made on the Dakar commitments; to review successful policies
and practices; to review, in particular, the overall performance in achieving
universal completion of primary schooling; to identify existing problems
and constraints while proposing interventions that have been proven to
work, with a view to moving forward the educational development of the
continent.
Regional EFA Forum Dakar +5
The presentations and discussions around the themes will be guided by
a principle of action, i.e., more than discussing the state of the art,
it will be fundamental to discuss concrete means of action that may take
educational development forward. Among the chosen themes are as follows:
- Achieving universal completion of primary schooling, focusing on policies
and practices to monitor and improve the quality of primary education
and interventions that work
- Achieving gender parity in basic education: polices and practices and
interventions that work.
- Education sector interventions to help teachers and learners cope with
the risks and realities of HIV-AIDS.
- Linking Fast Track, Resource Mobilization, Sustainability and National
Action Plans.
- Training implications of ensuring a sufficient supply of good quality
teachers.
All discussions are aimed at achieving concrete suggestions and recommendations
that will be presented in a final session of the Forum: ‘Setting
Targets for 2006 – 2010; Major points, recommendations and actions
/ consensus building on key recommendations / Way forward’.
Specific Objectives
The Forum aims in particular to:
- Review and analyse the state of the art of educational development in
Africa, focusing on the overall performance of basic education.
- Highlight and discuss policies, practices and interventions that work,
analyse factors behind them, and discuss means of extrapolation of such
policies and practices to other contexts than those in which they primarily
developed.
- Identify the nature of problems and constraints hindering the EFA process
and propose ways and means of moving the process forward.
- On the basis of concrete proposals on how to move the EFA process forward
commit the participants to the urgent need for action.
Expected Results
The Regional Forum is expected to achieve the following results:
- Progress about the elaboration of EFA plans/ sector-wide plans is assessed,
constraints are identified, and the means of overcoming obstacles faced
by countries yet to finalize their plans are suggested.
- Concrete suggestions and recommendations are proposed on how to move
the EFA process forward, in particular on how to better implement the
EFA plans at the country level.
- Major gaps that must be bridged to meet the EFA goals are identified
and strategies to cover them are put forward.
- Policy briefs and guidelines on specific policy issues are prepared.
- Successful practices are presented and their extrapolation to different
contexts is discussed.
- Strategies and options for effective implementation of the plans are
discussed and shared.
- Major trends in policy, process, capacity and financing for EFA are
analysed and reported.
- Partnerships are strengthened at the regional level.
- Commitment of participants to the urgent need for action in moving the
EFA process forward.
- A Final Report of the forum meeting is produced and disseminated.
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