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Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
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Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
WHAT: Continental Education Strategy for Africa – (CESA) Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting.
THEME: Accelerated implementation of CESA 16-25 - Revitalising and reinforcing clusters in the implementation of AUs Agenda for Transforming Africa’s Education systems
WHEN: 19th – 21st August, 2020
WHERE: Virtual (Link will be shared)
TIME : 10 AM Daily
WHO: The African Union through the Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology
Speakers:
Background Information
Africa’s education system is facing four main crises - equity, learning, relevance and affordability. The Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16-25 ) was adopted in 2015 to respond to these crises by transforming Africa’s education system. The twelve (12) strategic objectives articulate high-level results that aim to reorient and provide qualitative and quantitative improvements to African education and training systems and provide the continent with requisite human resources for achievement of the African Union’s Vision and Agenda 2063.
Under each strategic objective, a set of intermediate-level goals, called action areas (AAs), are provided to specify the critical elements and results the CESA 16-25 must accomplish before achieving the strategic objectives. These action areas are the basis on which operational plans for implementing the CESA 16-25 will be developed.
CESA also serves as a platform for bringing together all Education actors across the continent behind a transformative Pan African agenda for education. It is in this regard that the thematic cluster approach was adopted to bring together various stakeholders in specific fields of education to contribute to the achievement of CESA's strategic objectives. To date, twelve CESA thematic clusters have been launched. The full potential of the clusters remains untapped as the clusters are in different stages of functionality and performance.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and its negative impact on Africa’s education systems is calling on all education stakeholders at the regional and continental levels to come together to act with speed and at scale up to implement innovative initiatives that improve the resilience of Africa’s education system and ensures continuous learning.
OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP:
The meeting is being called to revitalize and reinforce the role of clusters in CESA implementation. Its purpose is to take stock of how the clusters are responding to and contributing to CESA implementation, and agree on 2020-2021 priorities, deliverables, and ways of working. The meeting will be used to discuss the AU’s framework for transforming Education in Africa.
The specific objectives of the meeting are:
For further information contact :
Caseley Olabode Stephens| Policy Officer-Education -division| Department of Human Resource, Science and Technology, African Union Commission | Email: StephensC@africa-union.org
Media Contact:
Faith Adhiambo | Communications Officer-Agenda 2063 | African Union Commission | E-mail:OchiengJ@africa-union.org|
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century.