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AFRICA NETWORK CAMPAIGN ON
EDUCATION FOR ALL
INTERNATIONAL LUSOPHONE
CONFERENCE
HOTEL GIRASSOL, MAPUTO
NOVEMBER 25TH TO 28TH-2008
ANCEFA OVERVIEW
PRESENTED BY
MRS. JENNIFER CHIWELA
ANCEFA BOARD CHAIR
&
MODERATOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
INTRODUCTION
The Africa Network Campaign on Education For All
(ANCEFA) emerged in 2000 following the World
education forum held in Dakar 2000. Four sub-regional
consultations of national civil society coalitions held in
2000 and 2001 built the vision, missions, goals, strategies
and the structure of ANCEFA:
West Africa : Accra September 2000
Central Africa: Brazzaville January 2001
East Africa: Dar esalam February 2001
Southern Africa : Maputo July 2001
ANCEFA VISION
A united, strong, dynamic, motivated and
effective African Civil Society committed
to achieving “free access to quality
education” in Africa
ANCEFA Mission Statement
To promote, enable and Build capacity of
African Civil Society to advocate and
campaign for access to free quality
education for all.
ANCEFA Overall Goal
To promote civil society participation in
the universal access to free quality
education for all.
ANCEFA Strategies
To
encourage and facilitate the
emergence of strong national networks,
alliances and coalitions to address
Education For All (EFA) issues at the
national, regional and international levels.
ANCEFA Strategies Cont’d
To
develop a communications process
(two way) that facilitates information sharing
and best practices to enable members
make informed choices.
To
develop mechanisms and processes
for reaching consensus on EFA identified
priorities for Africa and use these for joint
advocacy and lobbying at the sub-regional,
regional and international level.
ANCEFA Strategies Cont’d
To
develop a strong and independent
capacity to engage with other stakeholders at
the international level.
To
build capacity of its members to create
awareness, engage in policy dialogue, budget
tracking and other EFA related activities.
To provide mechanisms and processes
for
monitoring and evaluating the achievement of
the EFA goals.
ANCEFA Governance Structure
The
general assembly is constituted
by all the member coalitions(32 in 2008)
ANCEFA has a 9 members Board
Members
elected by the sub-regions
(coalitions): each sub-region nominate or
elect a Board member, the five elected
members
constitute
the
steering
committee
ANCEFA Gov Structure Cont’d
4
Members are selected by the steering
committee in four categories: teachers
unions, academic, human rights activists
and media specialists
The
Regional Secretariat : Is led by the
Regional Coordinator. His mandate is to
mobilize funds from international partners,
coordinate and facilitate the implementation
of ANCEFA campaign strategy.
ANCEFA Gov. Structure -Cont’d
He is supported by a staff of 7 members
namely:
Three
Capacity Building Project Coordinators
based respectively in Nairobi, Lome and Lusaka
Policy Research and Documentation
Officer
(Dakar)
Finances and Administration Manager(Dakar)
Program Assistant (Dakar)
Messenger(Dakar)
Regional-Context of EFA Campaigns
EFA Progress towards 2015
Between 1999 and 2005, the number of new
entrants in primary education in SSA rose by 40% (29
million). However, demographic pressure will remain
a challenge throughout the next decade when the
primary school age population is expected to grow by
22%.
Gender
disparities have been reduced in the
region particularly in primary education, but not
eliminated. Only Mauritius and Seychelles have
achieved Gender Parity for both Primary and
Secondary education, by 2005
Regional-Context of EFA Campaigns
SSA
had about 2.5 million primary
school teachers in 2005, an increase of
nearly 500,000 since 1999.
FTI
has received appreciation as a
concrete initiative for accelerating EFA
achievements.
EFA Challenges for AFRICA
With
nearly 33 million children of primary
school age still not enrolled in school, SSA as a
whole was home to 45% of the world’s out of
school children, in 2005, of whom 54% were
girls.
Many a child still suffers from exclusion in
provision of education. For example, chances
of a disabled child not being in school are two
to three times greater than for a child who is
not disabled in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
EFA Challenges for AFRICA
25 countries in Africa are at risk of not achieving
the gender parity goal even in 2015 or even in
2025.
18 countries in Africa are at risk of not achieving
Literacy Targets by 2015.
12 countries in Africa are at serious risk of not
achieving UPE by 2015.
Results from regional assessment indicate poor
learning outcomes in SSA. Countries that have
carried out national assessments attest to this.
ANCEFA Policy Change Objective
By the end of 2010 we expect the
following 3 strategic objectives to be
met:
Campaign objective 1:
Work
towards ensuring that African
governments elaborate and implement
concrete, time bound and costed EFA
action
plans
with
support
and
participation of civil society.
Campaign Objective 2:
Mobilise
support towards achieving
Gender parity in Primary and Secondary
education by 2015
Campaign Objective 3:
Have
concrete strategies and actions from
Africa regional bodies (AU, ECOWAS, SADC,
CEMAC and NEPAD) to address education,
HIV/AIDs, conflict and poverty in Africa.
Key Policy Change Activities
MINEDAF VIII December 2002
ANCEFA
facilitated and coordinated
building common CSO’s position on EFA (
“challenges to….EFA”)
Special session for ANCEFA and
Education Ministers on African civil
society’s demands
key policy demands (Credible, costed and
time bound EFA plans, 20% of national
budget to Education)
Key Policy Change Activities
Algiers Education Ministers Meeting, April 2005
CSO pre-meeting (ANCEFA/FAWE/EI) ground
support from EI affiliates in Algeria)
Joint Policy statement presented by ANCEFA (to a
group of Education Ministers and donors)
Presentation
to the plenary session (supported by
the 12 countries)
Algiers Declaration: Education Ministers declared
their government will spend at least 20% of
national budget in education before end of 2007)
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
Abuja Finances/Ed Ministers meeting in June
2006
CSO’ Caucus (ground support from CSACEFA)
ANCEFA statement widely disseminated in the
meeting
Policy Demand:
Abuja Declaration : Finances and Ministers of Education from 20
countries declared that they will submit an EFA plan before Sept
06 (this never happened!!)
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
 AU Education decade launch in Maputo (September
2006)
CSO’s caucus (ground support from the
Mozambique EFA net)
ANCEFA/AA/EI Africa joint declaration (presented in
plenary and widely disseminated in the meeting)
Special
session between CSO’s and the AU
Education commission and ADEA on how to ensure
that African governments will deliver this time and
avoid missing the opportunity of Gordon Brown
pledge: 10 billions $ for education and against
HIV/AID over 10 years
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
 Gender Mainstreaming:
Joint
initiative
mainstreaming:
with
FAWE
on
gender
Joint
proposal to CEF on gender
mainstreaming in 14 countries selected
according to the UNESCO GMR report on
gender
National
workshop convened by FAWE
chapters and EFA coalitions to see how gender
responsive the national policies and budget are
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
Lobby
letters to Education Ministers and
parliamentarians on the risk of missing the
2005 target on gender parity
Disseminating
ANCEFA posters on gender
audit
Lobbying
for bigger space in the UN
platform on gender (ANCEFA is an elected
member of the UN Girls education Initiative
UNGEI International Advisory Group)
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
CONFINTEA Regional Conference,Nairobi, November 2008
ANCEFA in Collaboration with PAALAE, PAMOJA and FEMNET
set up a platform for Adult Literacy Campaign and Advocacy towards
CONFINTEA VI.
Coordinated
the Drafting Committee of the Africa Report on
Literacy
ANCEFA facilitated the lobbying Strategy for bigger Civil Society
Space within the regional Conference in Nairobi (2008)
In partnership with Elimu Yetu Coalition (EYC), the ANCEFA East
And Southern Africa (ESA) Office organized the Civil Society Premeeting on CONFINTEA
ANCEFA has been Selected to Represent African Civil Society on
the Drafting Committee of CONFINTEA VI Regional Conference
Key Policy Change Activities Cont’d
 Monitoring EFA
UPE Review in East Africa in partnership with
Oxfam
GB
ANCEFA Education watch project in 16 countries
National Capacity building activities:
Facilitating
and supporting coalitions’ building processes
(some lusophones are involved namely: Angola, Mozambique,
CapeVerde) Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome in 2009
Regional
and national workshops on budget tracking and
advocacy, 23 countries involved from 2006 to 2008
Exposure opportunities to emerging coalitions
ANCEFA INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
Global
Campaign For Education (GCE)-ANCEFA is a
member of the Board
The Dutch Government
OXFAM GB
Open Society Institute (OSI)
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)
Action Aid International (AAI)
IBIS-a Danish International Education NGO
TIDES Foundation
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