May 2008

• Regional Coordinator for the GEF/UNDP/UNESCO Project on Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Areas of West Africa (ACCC) (08.05.08)

March 2008

• UNESCO celebrates International Women’s Day (08.03.08)

• Women Make the News 2008 (05.03.08)

Février 2008

• Sub-Regional Consultative Meeting on Education for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (ESD in SSA),
  UNESCO-BREDA, 18 – 22 February 2008 (19/02/08)

• UNESCO and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are organizing a seminar from 26 to 28 February 2008 in Lagos (Nigeria) on the subject of "Nation-states and the challenges of regional integration in West Africa: the Nigerian case" (15/02/08)

• Regional Meeting of the African LIFE Countries. Maputo, 29 - 31 January 2008. (04/02/08)

Janvier 2008

• Regional Meeting of the African LIFE Countries. Maputo, 29 - 31 January 2008. (05.02.08)

December 2007

• Seventh Meeting of the Hight-Level group on Education for all. Dakar, Senegal - 11-13 decembre 2007

November 2007

• Education for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (ESD in SSA) Virtual Bank (29/11/07)

• 34th session of General Conference (02/11/07)

October 2007

• Regional Workshop on the theme "What Basic Education for Africa ?" Kigali, 25-28 September 2007 (22.10.07)

August 2007

• Workshop on Preparing Women for Leadership in the Liberian Media - Liberia, Monrovia from 30th July to 2 August 2007 (20.08.07)

July 2007

• UNESCO-BREDA and government of Mali are organizing from 11 -12 September 2007 an African Regional Conference on Literacy and from 13-14 September 2007 the Regional EFA Forum, Dakar+7

June 2007

• UNESCO and UNHCR commemorate Africa Children's Day (17.06.2007)
  

April 2007

• Seminar on “Nation-states and the challenges of regional integrqation in West Africa – the case of Cape Verde”, organized by the Amílcar Cabral Foundation and UNESCO. Praia, Cape Verde, from 4 and 5 April 2007. (02.04.07)

November 2006

• Africa Launch of 2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report on Early Childhood Education, Experts meeting for accelerating EFA Goal 1. Hotel Terranga, Dakar - Senegal, November 27 - 30, 2006. (21.11.06)

August 2006

• "Literacy for Life!"
  This advocacy documentary, developed by BREDA, presents the situation on Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on LIFE Countries of this region for the Pilot Phase

April 2006

• The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics School on Physics at LHC: 11th - 16th september 2006 (26.04.06)

March 2006

• The UNESCO office in Dakar and the Regional office for Education in Africa (UNESCO/BREDA) will organise in the collaboration of UNESCO Paris and Bamako and Abuja a sub-regional meeting of sub-Saharan Africa LIFE countries: Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal (22.03.06)

January 2006

• Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy : Call for participation to conferences and workshops (17.01.06)

• International conference on Engineering Research and Development: Impact on Industry. Nigeria, 5 -7 September 2006 (17.01.06)

December 2005

• Literate Environments, Publishing and Multilingualism - The sub-regional dimension in the development of national language publishing. Dakar, december 13-15, 2005 (08.12.05)

November 2005

• Review Meeting on Literacy Studies for the ADEA Biennial. Dakar-Senegal, 14 - 17 November 2005 (21.11.05)

October 2005

• General Conference of UNESCO celebrates 60th Anniversary. To mark this important event, the General Conference will meet in an exceptional session in the afternoon of 5 October. (05.010.05)
  

September 2005

• International Literacy Day (08.090.5)
  

• Introduction of Communication and Information Technologies into the class practices of primary education in Senegal (05.07.19)
  
  
• Planning meeting on the Harmonisation and Introduction of Context-specific Teaching Centred on Life Skill. (05.07.07)

• Workshop to define strategies for a systemic integration of a Culture of Peace, human rights and democracy in the national EFA plans in selected sub-Saharan countries. (17.06.05)

• Dakar +5 EFA Framework - Dakar, 13th to 15th on June 2005 (15.06.05)
  

• The Sierra Leone national workshop to accelerate the education sector response was held in Freetown - Freetown, 25 - 29 April 2005 (18.05.05)

• UNESCO condems the killing of Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara - Paris, December 21, 2004 (29.12.04)

November 2004

• UNESCO's Director General makes an official visit to Guinea and Liberia - Conakry, November 25 to 26, 2004 and Monrovia, November 26 to 27, 2004 (30.11.04)

• National worshop on decriminalisation of presse offences in Senegal - Dakar November 23 to 24, 2004l (26.11.04)

• Launching ceremony of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2005 (09.11. 04)

• Youssou Ndour receives UNESCO's International Musical Award (04.11. 04)

• New Director of BREDA takes office- Dakar October 28, 2004 (03.11.04)

• Books collection and distribution day - Dakar October 27, 2004 (02.11.04)

• National workshop on poverty as a violation of human rights- Dakar, Senegal, October 25-27, 2004 (02.11.04)

• A project launched in Senegal to create fifty (50) Community Multimedia Centers (22.10.04)

• Regional workshop on Capacity Building of Literacy and NFE Facilitators - Dakar, Senegal, 26 - 30 September 2004 (23.09.04)

• Official Visit of H.E.Mr. Hans Heinrish Wrede, Chairman of UNESCO's Executive Board to Senegal - Dakar, 15 - 18 September 2004 (21.09.04)

• Consultation of UNESCO Africa HIV/AIDS focal points - Dakar 16-17 September 2004 (15.09.04)

• UNESCO Small Grants Programme on Poverty Eradication. Building national capacities for research and policy analysis (02.09.04)

• The 3rd Africain International Conference on Early Childhood Development - Accra, Ghana from May 30 - June 3, 2005. (27.07.04)

• Consultation workshop of efa coordinators of the french-speaking countries in Africa. Dakar 28 June - 2 July, 2004 (14.07.04)

• Launching of the JT. UNDP/UNESCO Project Foundations for' Africa's future leadership. BREDA, 17 June 2004 (23.06.04)

• Regional Workshop in Values Education for Street Children and Early Childhood UNESCO Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal, 2-10 April 2004 (11.06.04)

January 2004

• Gambian journalists aquire IT training - BREDA 19-23 January 2004 (28.01.04)

• Workshop on NICT and distance Education during the opening ceremony of the BREDA Multimedia Centre (20.11.03)

• Training on basic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Niamey - Niger, 23 September - 2 October 2003 (05.11.03)

September 2003

• Training on basic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Conakry - Guinea, 28 July - 6 August 2003 (18.09.03)

• Capacity-building of teacher training institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa - Progress to date and agenda for the next steps (18.09.03)

August 2003

• 3rd Pan-African Conference on Reading for All: Literacy without borders - Kampala, Uganda, 18-22 August 2003. (22.08.03)

• E-forum CONFINTEA-V

July 2003

• UNITAR in Malaysia, the Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar, Senegal, the Universidad Virtual de Quilmes in Argentina and USQOnline in Australia, are but three virtual universities included in a case study entitled " The Virtual University: Models and messages". (14.07.03)

• Africa Regional Workshop on the CONFINTEA V Report. (04.07.03 )

• National consultation on the OCSs - NGOs capacity building programme and intervening trade-unions in the education domain in senegal. (03.07.03)

Juin 2003

• Experts' meeting on the prepration of a framework document on a strategy of coverage of handicapped women literacy in africa. Accra, 24-27 june, 2003. (27/06/03)

• Mbissao Village (in the rural community of Djender) just gratified with the installation of a community radio given by UNESCO. (25.06.03)

• Digital opportinuties for Africa: Community Multimedia centre (12.06.03)

• 8th ordinary session of the Regional Committee on the follow up of the Arusha Convention. (05.06.03)

May 2003

• Microprogramme integrating Information and Communication Technologies in Education. Yaounde - Cameroon, 28 April - 3 May, 2003. (15.05.03)

• Consultation meeting of the countries national commission of its representation. (15.05.03)

• Message of Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO for World Press Freedom Day - (03.05.03)

April 2003

• Celebration of the Education for All Week on the theme All for Girls' Education ! from 6 to 13 April 2003. (06.04.03)
  

March 2003

• Training of Trainers for Technical and Vocational Education in the SADC Sub-region, Mauritius, 18-20 March, 2003 (13.03.03)

  UNESCO organizes seminar: UNESCO and NEPAD, from vision to action - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) from 5 to 8 March 2003 (04.03.03)

• official visit of the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, to a number of West African Member States from 2 to 8 March 2003 (04.03.03)

February 2003

• Workshop to develop a publication to combat racism and foster tolerance - Paris, France, 19 - 20 February 2003 (28.02.03)

• Sub-regional Workshop on open and distance Education - Porto–novo (Benin), 11 - 14 February 2003 (20.02.03)

• Technical Workshop on Educational Planning and Economic Development organised by UNESCO-IICBA. Dakar from 29 to 31 January 2003 (03.02.03)

January 2003

• Twenty-seven Gambian journalists who are currently undergoing the UNESCO sponsored journalism training in the Gambia have been trained on the modern information system at the UNESCO BREDA resource centre in Dakar Senegal. (18/01/04)

• Training Workshop for the" AFIA" Community Radio Station Presenters (16.01.03)

December 2002

• Sub regional Training Workshop for Preschool Specialists in Educational Material Production (26.12.02)

• Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura Director -General UNESCO of UNESCO at the Eighth Meeting of the Ministers of Education of Africa (12.12.02)

• Speech by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency BENJAMIN WILLIAM MKAPA at the opening session of MINEDAF VIII (12.12.02)

• Statement by Carol Bellamy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund to the 8th Meeting of Ministers of Education in Africa (11.12.02)

• ADDRESS BY MR. ARMOOGUM PARSURAMEN, DIRECTOR OF BREDA, Closing Ceremony of MINEDAF VII (10.12.02)

• Speech at the opening ceremony of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Member States, By Peter Piot Executive Director (10.12.02)

• Opening remarks by prof. KADER ASMAL, South African Minister of Education and President of the Intergovernmental Committee of MINEDAF VII (10.12.02)

• Welcome Remarks by the Chairman of The UNESCO National Commission and Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Ambassador Dr Puis Yasebasi Ng'wandu (Mp) (10.12.02)

• Training workshop on use of theatre in the fight against HIV/AIDS (09.12.02)

• African ministers create body to monitor recommendations (09.12.02)

• UNESCO pledges support for AU institutions (04.12.02)

• Challenges facing African Education Ministers at MINEDAF VIII (04.12.02)

• 8th MINEDAF opens in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (03.12.02)

• FAPED to benefit from UNESCO support (03.12.02)

• Message from UNESCO/BREDA on the occasion of the International Day of Disabled Persons (02.12.02)

November 2002

• FAPED: Africa's 2015 education for all deadline elusive (29.11.02)
  

• World Teachers' Day 31 October 2002 (19.11.02)

October 2002

• Workshop for the launching of the UNESCO project on the application of teledetection to the integrated management of ecosystems and water resources in Africa (29.10.02)

  Teaching of world heritage and new information and communication technologies in Africa - Dakar, AUF Francophone Campus, 15-17 October 2002 (15.10.02)

• UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge (11.10.02)

September 2002

• Conference of Ministers of Education of the Member-states in the Economic Community of West African-States (ECOWAS) - Dakar, 20 - 25 September 2002. (20.09.02)

• International Literacy Day (08.09.02)

• Regional workshop for the creation of network support of the integrate education in Africa - Bamako, Mali, 11th to 14th September 2002 (06.09.02)

  Training of Peer Health Educators - Freetown (Sierra Leone) 26 August to 6 September 2002 (03.09.02)

August 2002

• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23.08.02)

• Workshop on drafting a working document of MINEDAF VIII on Civil Society prospects for EFA (07.08.02)

July 2002

• Study of the project: "Reduce poverty by educational methods of entrepreneurship at secondary school" (08.07.02)

• Consultation of National Commissions for UNESCO of sub-Saharan African countries (26.06.02)

June 2002

• Mobile community radio donated to the XUN-PANG association of Thies (Senegal) (26.06.02)

• Experts' meeting on the amendment of the Arusha Regional Convention on the recognition of higher Education Studies and Degrees in Africa (Cape Town) (26.06.02)
  

• Presentation of medals and diplomas to the civil servants who have served UNESCO for 25 and 30 years (21.06.02)

• Sub-Regional workshop on integration of human rights and a culture of peace education into the Education for All National Action Plans (13.06.02)

• International Meeting on the theme : "Tourism, Culture and Development in West Africa" (14.06.02)

• Planning meeting on NGO/CSO capacity building program for EFA (05.06.02)

• UNESCO Africa Regional Conference on Progress and Future Directions of Higher Education in Africa (05.06.02)

May 2002

• Exchange seminar on the Elementary Community Schools Pilot Project (28.05.02)

• Meeting in Cachouane for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence (23.05.02)

• UN Agencies and the World Bank act to foster Education in Africa (13.05.02)

• Regional Workshop on "Distance Education National Policy and the Role of ICT: Design, Building, Implementation and Management" (02.05.02)

April 2002

• Second anniversary of the World Forum on Education for All (29.04.02)

• EFA Sub-regional forum in Yaounde from 22 to 25 April, 2002 (29.04.02)

• Training on Information and Communication Technologies and Development of Distance Learning Materials for the Future Trainers of Francophone Africa (26.04.2002)

• Sub-regional seminar on Women Contribution to the implementation of NEPAD (10.04.02)

• Workshop on the new technologies of information for Female Community Radio Presenters in West Africa (09.04.2002)

March 2002

• EFA Sub-regional Forum (Dakar - Senegal) (27.03.02)

• "Open Door Day" about the UNESCO/UCAD Chair on "integrated management and sustainable development in costal regions and small islands" (22.03.2002)

• Workshop for Training for Trainers involved in Literacy Teaching for Rural Women and Girls in The Republic of Guinea (19.03.02)

• Sub-regional Workshop on "training on entrepreneurship intended for young people" (13.03.02)

• Regional workshop on the "Connect" Project (11.03.2002)

February 2002

• Regional workshop on periodic report monitoring exercise for african world heritage sites (26.02.02)

• Training workshop for journalists covering educational topics (20.02.2002)

• Regional Consultation on Higher Education Policies and Management in Africa (20.02.2002)

• African Forum of Parlamentarians for Education (AFPED) (04.02.2002)

November 2001

• Regional Workshop on Secondary Education renewal in Africa (26.11.2001)

• Regional conference on values in education (23.11.2001)

• UNESCO Chair in Education Sciences (CUSE) (20.11.2001)

• Training workshop for the managers of Educational Resources Centres (ERC). (07.11.2001)

October 2001

• Meeting of EFA National Co-ordinators for Sub-Saharan Africa (19.10.01)

September 2001

• Preparation of Revised UNESCO Directory of Social Sciences Institutions in Africa South of Sahara. RTF Format - PDF Format (17.09.2001)

• Regional Memorandum of Understanding among the Education for All sponsors at the regional level (06.09.2001)

August 2001

• Memorandum of understanding between the sponsors of Education for All and the Gouvernement of Cape Verde (17.08.2001)

• Conclusions and recommendations of the Consultation Schoolconsem IV on line (15.08.2001)

July 2001

• International Workshop on Improving the Performance of Primary Education (09.07.2001)

• 50 young mauritanians visit Senegal (03.07.2001)

June 2001

• Drama and social effort contest in the fight against AIDS (29 06.2001)

• Example of legislation on the radio broadcasting public service (28.06.2001)

• "Guide to the development of materials for Distance Education" (26.06.2001)

• Radio AFIA: a women's community radio in Senegal (26.06.2001)

• Martin Luther King Unesco Club

• "Possible uses of telematics in Education in francophone Africa: Creating training networks for African education specialists" (08.06.2001)

• The International day for innocent children victims of aggression was celebrated in Zinguinchor, Casamance (Senegal) (07.06.2001)

• New Africa EFA site: http://www.dakar.unesco.org/efa/index_fr.shtml

May 2001

• Follow-up workshop to the seminar on the contribution of NGO/SCO to Education For All held in Bamako in December 2000 (22.05.2001)

• Sub-regional technical consultation, whose aim is to re-examine the position of EFL/EPI in a changing context. (09.05.2001)

• "Local Rule and Participative Urban Management in West Africa" (09.05.2001)

• Meeting of EFA Partners for the Africa Region Antananarivo, Panorama Hotel Madagascar, 5 May 2001. (04.05.2001)

April 2001

• The official launching ceremony for the Senegalese Plan of Action for Education For All (27.04.2001)

• Workshop in Dakar validate the Senegalese Action Plan on Education for All (24.04.2001)

• An experiment in building a Civil Society Coalition for EFA in SENEGAL (20.04.2001)

March 2001

• World Poetry Day on Wednesday 21 March, 2001. Special events will take place (21.03.2001)

• The annual meeting of the Working Group on Educational Statistics (WGES) (16.03.2001)

• Drama Training Workshop on the fight against AIDS (13.03.2001)

• International Women's Day, March 8th, 2001 (08.03.2001)

• Workshop for the design of a Multimedia Network on the Teaching of Science, Mathematics and Technology (07.03.2001)

February 2001

• AFPA : African Federation of Parental Associations (28.02.2001)

• Documentation Centre : just arrived (14.02.2001)

• Model United Nations (MUN) from February 21 -23, 2001 (02.02.2001)

• UNESCO Cities of peace Award 2000-2001 - Call for nomination (02.02.2001)

January 2001

• A center for excellence in Education and vocational training integrating the NTIC in the community of Fass Delorme (22.01.2001)

• The United Nations day for Handicapped people, which will focus on the following theme: "What strategy for a better integration of handicapped children in the formal education system" (17.01.2001)

• Schoolconsem IV. We encourage the interested visitors to consult our discussion forum and to continue to send us their opinion(s) on the various debates. (17.01.2001)

December 2000

• MICROTROP 2001 - Call for apllications (19.12.2000)

• Convention on the construction of pilot huts for hearly childhood (19.12.2000)

• Documentation Centre News : N°6-7 just arrived and N°8 on Special Education (15.12.2000)

• World AIDS Day in Senegal (15.12.2000)

November 2000

• World AIDS Day in Senegal (30.11.2000)

• Virtual Visit of Gorée's 'House of Slaves' now on the Web in conjonction with the Festival of Black Roots (30.11.2000)

• SCHOOLCONSEM IV : Virtual Seminar (21.11.00)

• MODEL UNITED NATIONS (16.11.00)

• Documentation Centre News (14.11.00)

• Infancy: an area of first priority in Senegal (10.11.00)

• District Film Festival, Dakar (10.11.2000)

• Education for all is on the go (08.11.00)

• UNESCO - LIBERIA partnership: 50 years of effective technical co-operation (02.11.00)

October 2000

• SCHOOLCONSEM IV (postponed) (30.10.2000)

• Final report of the first AfriMAB Technical Workshop for Francophone African Countries (12.10.2000) html / rtf

August 2000

• Meeting of the Secretaries General of National Commissions for UNESCO - Final Report (22.08.2000)

• Regional Forum on cultural industries in Africa (14.08.2000)

July 2000

• National Commissions conference (11.07.2000)

• Sub-regional Workshop on education statistics (07.07.2000)

• Ministerial Seminar on a strategy to fight poverty in the Member States of the UEMOA (04.07.2000)

June 2000

• Media and Culture Forum held in Dakar this week (29.06.2000)

• Guide to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education now on-line (14.06.2000)

• Presentation Of The Report On Higher Education In Developing Countries (14.06.2000)