The expert meeting will bring together about 80 climate change education experts from all over Africa to identify main challenges that climate change poses to education systems in Africa and explore the role education can play in addressing climate change effects.
It is jointly implemented by UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA), Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC), Section for Teacher Development and Education Policies (TEP), and local partners.
In January 2010, UIL and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) held a Ministerial Conference on the Integration of African Languages and Cultures into Education in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Ms Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa, Dakar, Senegal.
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The Director-General highlighted UNESCO's close cooperation with the Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
The African Development Bank and The Association for the Development of Education in Africa.
She hopes that one day the school will serve as a model for girls' education throughout Africa.
In education, Africa can leapfrog into digital books and mobile learning to become a leading source of new educational businesses and industries.
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But it's very difficult to get trained staff to run a fistula hospital, because of the lack of available education in Africa, he says.
It was launched in partnership with the Pan African Institute of Education for Development (IPED) and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
Irina Bokova and Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development, discussed deepening cooperation on primary education and Africa, as the beginning of strengthened cooperation between the EU and UNESCO.
Pascal Canfin, Minister responsible for Development at the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs spoke about girls' education in Africa, emphasizing that French assistance aimed to address girls' exclusion from a holistic standpoint, from schools to sanitation to transport.
The report is the result of the discussions that took place during the Africa Education for All Conference from 16-19 October 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
During their policy conference in May 1992, the ANC made specific commitments to education in South Africa, inter-alia, provision of a minimum of 10years free and compulsory education, provision for those with special learning needs, improving educational quality, ensuring education for young people expelled or having dropped out of school as a consequence of apartheid, provision of adult education, leading to the establishment of a single non-racial, equal and democratic education system.
"Across Sub Saharan Africa, there is a general awareness that the last decade has witnessed unprecedented progress in the development of education, " says Zulmira Rodrigues, Education Coordinator for Africa in UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar.
Teachers, parents, students and politicians discuss the problems of education in South Africa brought about by apartheid.
But with more than 5% of GDP being spent on education, South Africa is getting a rotten return on its investment.
An acknowledgement of overhauled governance structures as is seen in Rwanda, enhanced gender empowerment, and increased health and education access throughout Africa are usually distant thoughts.
The minister herself, 57, was said to be on a five-day education and science co-operation trip to South Africa.. Education minister since 2005, she is described as a close colleague of Chancellor Merkel.
Since then the programme has concentrated on developing a team of international researchers focusing on Education for Peace in Africa.
Ms Ramphele, a former World Bank managing director and anti-apartheid activist, also criticised education standards in South Africa.
The Conference will feature a round table on Higher Education and research in Africa with the participation of Prime Minister Nahas Angula of Namibia.
On Tuesday, we also heard from Shannon McNamara, a 17 year-old high school senior from Basking Ridge, NJ, who founded an organization to empower girls in Africa through education.
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Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
When I asked John Wood, founder and board chair of Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education in Asia and Africa, about Khan, he said he was actually meeting with him this week.
Welcoming the progress that has been made in in pre-primary education since 2000, Irina Bokova pointed out that nonetheless only 15 percent children are enrolled in pre-primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 19 percent in Arab States, 28 percent in Central Asia and 36 percent South and West Asia.
During the 1Goal Education for All Summit held in Pretoria (South Africa) in July 2010, the Director-General argued for education to be made a top political priority of governments and global governance.
The Africa Network Campaign on Education For All (ANCEFA) drives a social movement to achieve EFA. Its member coalitions contributed to the increase in national budgets allocated to education in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries.
The Recommendations, stating that World Journalism Education Congress should be held in Africa, serve as inspiration to the African journalism educators who will be hopeful of receiving publicity and support to enable them to fulfil their potential in the "forgotten continent".
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