Thursday, 16th March 2017
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08:30 - 10:00 |
Ministerial Roundtable: Quality Education for all and at all levels |
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Storyline: What is evident from SDG objective 4 of the 2030 Global Agenda as well as Africa’s Agenda 2063 and CESA 2016-2025, is that quality education should be a core priority in the post-2015 education agenda. It has to be holistic, comprehensive, and context-specific. Growing evidence of poor quality education which contributes to low learning levels and learning deficits has led policy-makers and the international community to a renewed focus on improving the provision of quality education. Speakers are expected to address the following challenges among others: (i) What strategies and policy measures have proved successful in raising the quality of education at different levels of education systems?; (ii) How can key stakeholders – donors, teachers, private sector, etc. – be engaged by governments in their efforts to raise the quality of education?; and (iii) Given the current disconnect between educational qualifications and the needs of the labor market how will governments implement the necessary transformation to make education at all levels relevant to national and labor market needs? Objective: The objective of this session is to share good practices that have been successful in enhancing quality education in various areas such as (i) Learning – testing and measuring learning outcomes, (ii) Teacher education and motivation (iii) Learning environment - protection of children from abuse, physical and psychological violence, as well as gender-based violence in the learning environment; (iv) the value-addition of education management; (v) and endogenous knowledge, national language and African values. Expected outcome: The expected outcome will be concrete recommendations and clear definition of steps to be taken in order to adopt successful practices and programs by African countries. |
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Parallel Session - Group A Moderator: Mr. Birger FREDRIKSEN Rapporteur: TBD Keynote Speakers:
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Parallel Session - Group B Moderator: Dr. Abdulaziz Othman ALTWAIJRI, Director-General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Rapporteur: TBD Keynote Speakers:
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Health Break |
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10:15 - 11:30 |
Plenary Session: Higher Education and STEM |
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Moderator: Ms. Kimberly KERR, Deputy Director, The MasterCard Foundation Rapporteur: TBD Keynote Speakers:
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11:30 - 13:00 |
Presentation of reports from 4 parallel sessions |
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Moderator: Mr. Richard SACK, former Executive Secretary of ADEA Rapporteurs: TBD Presenters of reports:
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 16:30 |
Official Opening Ceremony |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Plenary Session: Triennale Focus and Keynote Address |
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Ms. Oley DIBBA-WADDA, ADEA Executive Secretary |
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Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji ADESINA, President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) |
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17:00 - 18:45 |
Plenary Session: Presidential Roundtable with Heads of State - Financing Education |
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Storyline: Lack of access to quality education, inequality, shortage of teachers, lack of safe and healthy learning environments, inability to fund school feeding programmes, and ICT integration in education and training are not unrelated to financial constraints at national level. As UNESCO noted, the post-2015 education agenda would require “innovative, increased and well-targeted financing and efficient implementation arrangements. There must be a clear, renewed commitment by governments to provide adequate and equitable financing to educational priorities, and by all donors, established and new, to provide additional support”. Africa’s population aged 5-14 is projected to increase rapidly between 2015 and 2030. Therefore, to catch up with the other developing regions during the period, African countries would require a level of education investments far beyond that of other regions. The key issues that African Heads of State will be expected to address at this session will include: (i) As the implementation of the Africa Agenda 2063 and CESA (16-25) would require increased education funding, what are the strategies of individual African governments for dealing with the situation?; (ii) Given the decrease in financial support to education by development cooperation agencies because of other competing development needs, would the African Heads of State and Government consider establishing a sustainable continental African Education Fund that will be immune to external shocks and responsive to varying African education needs? Objective: The objective of this session is to ascertain how African governments intend to deal with the massive education funding required in post-2015. Expected outcomes: The expected outcomes of this session, therefore, are : (i) strategy for funding quality education and access to education; (ii) African governments’ renewed commitment to increase budgetary allocation to education vis-à-vis other development sectors; (iii) African governments’ commitment to support an African Education Fund given the changing priorities of Development Cooperation partnerships; and (iv) definition of the role and engagement of the business community (particularly the multi-national corporations) and how governments could support them through tax relief systems. |
Moderator: Dr. Makhtar DIOP, Vice President, The World Bank, Africa Region Rapporteur: TBD Panelists:
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20:00 - 22:00 |
Dinner organized by the Government of Senegal |
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