2002 – 05 Program

1. 2002 – 05 Program

2. Outline • Who / what is ERNWACA? • What have we done? • Where are we going?

3. Mission • Promote African expertise • Promouvoir l`expertise Africaine • Create a research culture • Creer une culture de recherche • Provide an independent and critical look at national education systems • Apporter un regard critique et independent aux systemes educatifs • Improve education policies and practices • Ameliorer les politiques et pratiques

4. Basic facts • Founded 1989, Freetown • NGO • Only bilingual education research network W/C Africa • 250 member researchers • Diverse institutional and professional backgrounds • Diverse disciplinary backgrounds • 13 member countries

5. Member Countries / Pays Membres • Bénin • Burkina Faso • Cameroun • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambie • Ghana • Guinée • Mali • Niger • Nigeria • Sénégal • Sierra Leone • Togo

6. Networking structure • 15 to 25 members • National Coordinator • National Coordinating Committee • National Scientific Committee NC NC NC NC NC RC NC NC • Regional Steering Committee • Regional Scientific Committee NC

7. Regional Steering Committee Joshua Baku, ERNWACA-Ghana secretary general, West Africa Examinations Council, Accra Abou Bamba, Coordinator, Network for Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA), Abidjan Birger Fredricksen, Senior Education Advisor, Africa Region, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA Martial Dembele, Directeur associe du Centre interuniversitaire Paul-Gérin-Lajoie de développement international en éducation (CIPGL), base à l’Université de Québec a Montréal (UQAM), chercheur Burkinabé et consultant Banque Mondiale Aicha Bah Diallo, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO, Paris; former Minister of Education, Guinea Paul Dougna, Education Specialist, African Development Bank, former Professor of Economics at Universite du Benin a Lome, Togo; formerly with Ministry of Education in Togo; and first ERNWACA coordinator Tape Goze, Directeur, Ecole Normale Superieure, Cote d’Ivoire ; ancien coordinateur du ROCARE-CI Ann Therese NDOGN-JATTA, GAMBIAN Minister of Education Moustafa SOURANG, Senegalese Minister of Education

9. Regional Scientific Committee Dr. (Mrs.) Sheila Bunwaree (from Mauritius), Director of Research and Documentation, Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA), headquartered in Dakar Dr. (Mrs.) O.O. Busari (from Nigeria), Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos Dr. Medjomo Coulibaly (from Cote d’Ivoire), Senior Education Expert, African Development Bank (formerly with USAID Regional office in Dakar) Dr. Soumaila Diakite (from Mali), Education Advisor, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), former Ministry head of Cabinet and former head of Research at National Pedagogical Institute Dr. (Mrs.) Karin Hyde (from Sierra Leon), Latilewa Consulting Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, and member of Monitoring & Evaluation Technical Assistance Team of UNICEF’s ESARO Education Unit since 1997 Dr. Ousseynou Kane (from Senegal), Chair, Department of Philosophy, University Cheick Anta Diop, Dakar Dr. Joel Samoff (from USA), Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

10. Début = 1989(Freetown) Phase I : 1989 - 1992 Établissement bureaux nationaux bibliographies nationales : état des lieux de la recherche en education Phase II : 1993 - 1997 lancement études transnationales planification Décennie de l’Education, Perspectives du Segou (1995), integration sous-regionale Phase III : 1998 - 2001 10eme Congres Mondial de l’Education Comparatif, Cape Town ateliers/approche plaidoyer Phase IV : 2002 - 05 … Historique

11. Transnational Studies, 1993 - 2001 • Factors affecting access and retention in elementary schools • Cote d’Ivoire • Gambia • Effects of community participation on access and quality of basic education (financing, management, teaching, curriculum development, skills development) • Benin • Burkina Faso • Cameroon • Ghana • Mali • Senegal • Togo

12. Four objectives for 2002-2005 • Reinforce national and regional education research capacity • Improve the quality and pertinence of researchfor practitioners and decision-makers • Disseminate research to stimulate public and policy dialogue • Strengthen ERNWACA as an institution

13. Conduct Research Build Capacity Disseminate Findings RESEARCHERS PUBLICS Feedback use of findings in planning, promotion, implementation and evaluation of practices and policies = Activity

14. 1. Capacity-building • Small Grants Program for Education Research (2002) – 30 young researchers (30% women) • Research methodology workshops • Manual on action-research • Over 50 researchers in 11 countries involved in transnational work on quality of education, ICTs and HIV/AIDS and education

15. 2. Research • Consultancies at national and regional level (UNICEF, World Bank, SchoolNet, etc.) • Fund for Transnational and Collaborative Research (funding sought)

16. Research Agenda INCORPORATE GENDER ANALYSIS – all themes • Quality of Instruction and Management of Teachers • Impact of HIV/AIDS on education systems and education response • Education in countries in crisis or conflict • Contribution of New Technologies to Education in Africa • Use of National Languages in Education • Sector Analysis: Reform processes, decentralization, community participation, private sector involvement • Beyond basic education: links to non-formal, TEVT, higher education …

17. Research Activity, 2002 - 2004 • Quality of Education • 11-country literature review, 1992-2002; seek to publish on emerging research trends and numerise best 200 studies reviewed • 10 Small Grants research projects, see summary of findings/recommendations • HIV/AIDS • Review of 75 research reports and policy documents from 5 countries, upload to central Clearinghouse, national/thematic syntheses in progress • Perspective: prepare transnational study • ICTs • 2-yr., 5-country study of 40 pioneer schools • Perspective: apply findings to development of teacher training programs

18. 3. Communication, Public / policy dialogue • Electronic communications • Web site, publications online: www.rocare.org • ERNWACA News / Nouvelles du ROCARE (4x/yr., #5 = Jan. 2004) • Online Researcher Profiles Database • NATIONAL: Cafés ROCARE • 4 seminars per country per year (piloting in Mali beginning Jan. 2004) • Discussion/policy papers published in series • REGIONAL policy dialogue: Critical Perspectives seminar on Education • Schooling and Skills development from a gendered perspective, September 2004, Bamako, MALI (NORRAG + Cooperation Suisse) • Institutionalize this policy dialogue space (need funding for subsequent years)

20. 4. Institution-building • National: • Membership diversity / quality / proactivity • Membership dues and annual fees • 15% of consultancy fees toward administrative expenses • National institutional & ministerial support • Initiation of partnerships • Regional: • Evaluation to update that of 1996 (World Bank funded?) • Meetings of regional steering / scientific committees • Diversify and solidify funding base

21. Partners • Core support • IDRC • USAID • Project support • Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) • International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) • Canadian universities (UQAM, University of Montreal) • NORRAG and Swiss development cooperation • In negotiation • ADB, Swedish SIDA, NORRAD …

22. Merci … Thank you … … pour votre soutien au ROCARE. … for your support for ERNWACA.

23. Policy / public dialogue … “Let us use these ideas to ensure that our reconstruction and development go ahead in harmony.” Nelson Mandela “In the research domain, there is no single recipe for policy impact. Luck and persistence, along with good science, are vital ingredients.”David Glover, 1995 “Determining what issues are discussed … may be the single most powerful political act.”Seekings and Fawcett, 1986