FAWE Annual Report 2002

AWE is a pan African NGO founded in 1992 with Headq uar te rs in Kenya. FAWE is a membership organization comprised of senior women policy makers in the education sector including cabinet ministers and vice chance llors. FAWE has Na t ional Chapt er s in 33 cou ntries in sub Saharan Africa . .:. The overarching goal of FAWE is for its membership to offer mutual support, assistance and collaboration in developing national capability to accelerate the participanon of girls in education at all levels in line

with the Educatio n for All (EFA) goals .

•:. FAW E. to geth e r wit h its partners, works at t he continental, national and local levels. to create positive societal attitudes. policies and practice s that promote equity for girls in terms o f access to, retention and performance and a good quality education.

•:. FAWE's concern centers on influencing the transformation of education systems to achieve gender eq uity through the pursuit of four main strategic o bjectives.

••• Influencing policy formulation. planning an d implementation in favor of increasing access improving retention and performance of girls . .:. Building public awareness and consensus on t he social and economic advan tages o f girls' education through advocacy. .:. Demonstrating. thro ugh interventions on the ground, how to achieve increased access. improved retention and better performa nce . .:. Influenc ing replication and mainstreaming of best practices from the demonstrative interventions into broader national education po licy and practice.

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Annual Report 2002 Girls ' Education - Stepping up the pace towards EFA

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partners and collaborators. with all our eyes riveted on achieving Education For All

goals . Specifically for FAWE. 2002 was almost wholly ded icated to defining the process and building the capacity to mainstream gender into Africa 's EFA national action plans, and

to ensuring t hat the process is undertaken with the full partici pation of all stakeholders. including the whole spectrum of the civil society. That the process is working can be seen in the reports of countries whose po licy frameworks now take full account of gender Issues.

Progress during the year was significant. but we cannot sit on our laurels.The task ahead is daunting and urgent.

Yet we believe it can be accom plished if all actors-funding agencies, development agencies . national governments. NGOs. the civil society and communities-continue with the same spirit. tempo and cooperation exhibited in 2002 .

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The Quest for Excellence In 2002. FAW E paid special attention to the pursuit of quality-better teaching. better learn ing and more efficient management systems in the existing Centres of Excellence and beginning the search for additional Centres. because we know they work to provide quality education for girls. I am pleased to mention here that the FAWE Centre in Rwanda prod uced the top two girls in national examinations in 2002.

We also trained teachers in skills of school se lf-evaluatlon. guidance and counselling. and management of student data bases. Our effor ts to empower girls in the Centres co ntinued through th e now pop ular Tuseme. a theatre fo r development process. and through the activities of the 1.558 girls' clubs established by 22 FAWE chapters.

Sharing "What Works" in Girls' Education Di ssemination. re plication and

mainstreaming of what works in girls ' education. now popu-

larly referred to as best practices. cons titute important elements in accelerating progress towa rds EFA.T he selected theme for the FAWE 5t h Gene ral Assembly, Education

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Prof Penina Mlama Grassroots, was a major effort to consolidate best practices in key areas of FAWE 's programmatic work: Fight ing poverty by setting up bursary schemes. em poweri ng girls to protect themse lves against HIV/AIDS. identifying best practices in promoti ng science and rnaths subjects among girls, implementing special interventions to improve girls' academic performance and girls' clubs as platforms for equipping girls to confront the challenges of adolescence. Discussions of interventions at the grassroots in the different FAWE chapters revealed a rich array of best practices that if mainstreamed into the national education systems would definitely go a long way toward bringing subSaharan Africa closer to the EFA targets.

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Towards Greater Sustainability

confidently expect that significant further progress will be made.

The relocation of o ur regional

secretariat from rented premises in the city centre to our

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own building in the no rt hern subur bs of Na irobi is a mile-

stone in our concerted effort to improve our financial susta inab ility. FAWE o ccu pies approximat ely half of the available floor space. saving su bstan-

t ial amounts in cost of rent. and leaving the remainder of the bui lding available for ren tal to gene rate income.We used an innovat ive approach to the constructio n of th is facility. one

tha t may serve as an examp le

to other not for profit o rganizati o ns.We r aised initia l funds fo r con st ru ct io n through co n-

tr ibutio ns fro m many do no rs and indivi dual supporters, and

too k a bank facility to offset the res t. co nfident that we could repay the loan through lower costs and additional income.We t he refo re co ntinue to appeal to ind ividuals an d organ izations for contribu tions to help offset the bank facility.

To those who have already suppo rt ed us in this endeavour. we say a big thank you and assu re you t hat the capacity exists now, more than eve r before , for FAWE' s mission to reach higher levels of accom plish ment. It is a fact that much , too much . remains to be done. but those who have followed FAWE's pro gress from its visionary but modest inception to its present status can . ~~~~ .~~. ~~

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Enhanced Partnerships 2002 saw us continue to establish and consolidate partnerships w it h a var iety o f orga nizations interested in girls' ed ucation.T he Ministr ies of Educat io n. o ur key partn ers in national govern men ts . active ly participated in our Ge ne ral Assembly.To gethe r we rev iewed the po sit ion of co untries in sub-Saharan Afr ica in te rms o f progre ss towards EFA and made concre te re commendat io ns on the way forward. particularly for replication and mainstream ing of best pr actice in girls' education.

FAWE's re latio nships w ith co m mu nit ies be ars evide nce of how successful partn e rsh ips can genera te cha nge , even under the mos t d ifficult cir cumstances.Among these are the local chiefs in Kajiado D istr ict. Kenya. powerful community leaders who could eas ily have rema ined a stumb ling block to our efforts to rescue young girls from early marriage an d send them back to school.

T he chiefs have instead chose n to work w ith us as agents of change among their commu nities.We wish to pay special tribute to these chiefs and to all communi ty leaders-civic co uncillors . com mun ity -based organizat ions , pa re nt s an d teache rs-and to thank th em for their committed respo nse to our call to work together for the education of girls.

O ur programmatic collaborators. including UNIC EF.

Advance Afr ica, O XFAM and o t he rs. are invaluable allies of our National Chapte rs in cooperative programmes to improve access, retention and performance of girls in their edu cati on .

We are particularly grateful to o ur do no r partners who have pro vided finan cial suppo rt to the FAWE Work Pro gramme.

It is our cherished ho pe that we sha ll ma inta in the po s itio n that Ho n. He nry Kosgey.

Kenya 's Ministe r of Educat io n, aptly attributed to FAWE when he said during the official o pe ning of FAWE Ho use , "FAW E has gro wn by leaps an d bo unds since it s hu mble beginnings in the early 1990 s an d has co nt inue d to t ran slate its vision, mission an d role with de d ication and commitment, becoming t he undisputed leader in pro moting the r ight to education fo r women and girls in the region."

Penina Mlama Executive Director

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a mo dern three -storey office building in N airobi's suburbs that was formally ope ned during the

General Assem bly.

was the foremost preocc upation during

2002 as FAW E was almost wholly ded icated to a step-by-step developme nt, implementation. assessment and sharing of a mechanism for ensuring that EFA national plans from countries in subSaharan Africa are fully gender mainstreamed .

through FAWE Ce ntres of Excellence now established. in four countries-Ke nya.

Rwanda. Senegal and Tanzania.

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convened in Nairobi in July to review progress and chart the future of FAWE's grassroots action toward Education For All.

Girls at the 5th FAWE

General Assembly

"Listen to us-It's Time to Act"

AW E'S 5th General Assembly gathered in Nairobi on 8-10 July unde r the theme. Education for All: Action at the Grassroots. The 178 delegates comprised African

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Throughout the proceedings FAWE's Girls were very much in evidence. Listening

to the voices of girls has become a tradition of the

General Assembly. and this convocation was no exception .The girls entertained the

women Ministers of Educat ion and Vi ce Chancellors of African uni-

versities. along with representatives of all 33 FAWE N at io nal Chapters. funding

agencies an d the four FAW E C ent res of Excellence .T here

were, as well . teachers. students, parents. community members and Ministry of Edu cation officia ls from the four Cen tre coun tries .

sent. they used this knowledge to identify viable policy directions and strategies for action in order to accelerate

progress towards EFA. Of special mention was the pres-

presented their s ucce sses and aspirations in poetry and drama.

Official Opening 0 FA.WE House T he schedule of act ivities started with the official open ing of the ultra-modern FAWE House in the northern

Participants shared and learned about successful

interventions in different

suburbs of the City of Nairobi by the Ho no urable He nry

countries and their potential fo r replication and mainstreaming.Together with the Ministers of Education pre-

Kosgey. Minister for

Education in Kenya.The

en ce of Ha n. Fay Chung and Han. Alice Tiendrebeogo. two of the original group of women who founded FAWE. A rich assortment of activities characterized

FAWÂŁ Chair, Prof Bouli Ali Diollo, welcomes guests to the opening of FA WE House.

delega tes with their so ngs. guided guests through t he shining new FAWE Ho use . and-most impo rrantly-

the three-day programme. wh ich featured the official opening of FAWE House , presentations of FAW E programme activities and

business sessions for FAW E full members .

Minister noted the great achievements recorded by FAW E since its inception in

the 1990s in promoting the education of girls in sub-

Saharan Africa. He commended FAWE for its creation of National Chapters . arguing that this was the most effective way of ensuring FAWE's work truly benefits the grassroots levels.

Touching on FAWE's strategic plan of interventions . the Minister commend-

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This part of the programme also featured an exciting half hour of special inte raction between girls and guests of their choice . with the girls questi oning the delegates about girls' education in sub-Saharan Africa. Later

many of the girls presided o ve r the tour of FAWE House by th e Minister and ot her guests.

General Assembly Proceedings A keynote addre ss by Ms.

Hon. Kosgey cuts the ribbon to FA WE House, encouraged by Prof Mlama. ed FAWE' s efforts to develop Centres of Excellence . wh ich have been shown to provide a wholesome and quality education for girls and which have motivated parents and the community to take a bigger interest in girls' education .

Following the speeches, Han. Kosgey presided over the ribbon cutting and unveiled the plaque proclaim-

ing the opening of FAWE House .

In their o pening remarks ,

both FAWE 's Chair, Professor Bouli Ali Diallo, and Executive Director, Professor Penina t-ttarna. emphasized strongly

the question of FAWE's sustainability. Professor Mlama

Ruth Kag!a. Di re ctor of Education at the World Bank

noted tha t this is an issue

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that FAWE had st r uggle d

t he opening of the G eneral A ssembl y. H er presentation

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was based on two main ques-

and that it was the drive towards self-sustainability that made FAWE undertake the project of bui lding FAWE

And why focus on girls' education? The answers to these

House. Describing the inno-

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tion s:Why focus on girls?

vative approach to financing

why the continued existence

the construction of the building. she told the guests that half of the const ructio n expenses were contributions from members and fri ends of FAWE. while the rest was a bank facility. Professor Mlama

of FAWE was justified.

thanked all th ose who had contributed to the building fund and appealed for contributions to help FAWE offset the bank loan.

Her exp osition touched on the huge negat ive impact

that poverty, HIV/AIDS and the gap in technological advancement have had on education in Africa . especially the education of the girl-

child. She explained that among other things. Africa must :

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FAWE's General Assemblies

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he FAWE General ~ssembly is a c.onstitutionally mandated gathering of the entire membership of FAWE.The members,

comprising African Ministers of Education,Vice Chancellors. and

prominent women educationalists, come together to exercise their governance function and elect an Executive Committee.They

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are joined by representatives of the National Chapters, donor agencies, communities and "FAW E's Girls" to review progress and chart the way for FAWE as they discuss a pertinent theme in the area of girls' education .To-date FAWE has organized five General Assemblies: .:. September 1992. Bellagio. Italy: Founding General Assembly Status of Girls' Education in Sub-Saharan Africa .:. June 1994. Bellagio, Italy: Focus on FAWE's mandate and membership

.:. 25-27 July 1996. Nanyuki. Kenya: Girls' Education in Africa: Translating Policy into Action

.:. 21-23 July 1999. Na irobi, Kenya: Cha llenges to the Education of Girls and Women in the Next Millennium

•:. 8-10 July 2002. Nairobi. Kenya: EFA: FAWE's Action at the Grassroots With a strong conviction that girls must participate fully in the analysis of problems that confront them and in devising and imple-

menting so lutions to these problems, FAWE introduced a girls' forum in its General Assemblies in 1999.This initiative proved so successful that it will be maintained and enhanced in all future General Assemblies and other important meetings.

Exhibitions are a key component of FAWE's General Assemblies. They highlight specific act ivit ies the National Chapters are undertaking to accelerate the participation of girls in education and the impact these activities are having on the ground.

Documentation prepared for each General Assembly gives indepth cnvpr;:lgp of the country status of issues under discussion .

These real-life experiences constitute a common frame of reference that FAWE. education specialists and policy makers use as a basis for tackling policy formulation issues .

.:. Be ready to spend enough of a country's resources on education. •:. Have a balanced teacherstudent ratio. .:. Maintain a balanced flow of resources so that teachers' salaries are paid

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even as other aspects of education quality are maintained.

Ms. Kagia concluded that a country can make it in educating its children. especially girls. through a steady,

focused and high level of dedication and determination, rather than mere political declarations and pronouncements.

The Assembly was more than just a gathering of dignitaries. Its main focus, beyond its governance function, was to review progress made by FAWE National Chapters ove r the last three years toward achiev ing EFA, in line with the declaration made in Daka r. Senegal. in April 2000. and to plan for future action.

The delegates heard and saw much to be proud of.

Discussions on FAWE's programme activities centred on two main themes: Demonstrating What Works in Girls ' Education and Mainstreaming Gender in Education For All. In addition to the presentations. a major exhibition illuminated the activities of FAWE's work. In sum, the Assembly heard of activities in seven programmatic areas: .:. Mainstreaming gender into EFA action plans .:. Addressing HIV/AIDS .:. Combating poverty through bursaries schemes .:. Promoting science. mathematics and technology for girls .:. Improving girls' academic performance

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Part One - The GeneralAssembly

.:. Empo wering girls .:. C reating a cond ucive env ironment for gir ls' ed ucatio n: FAWE Ce nt res of Excellenc e Th ese t hemes and program matic areas are also the major areas o f emp hasis in this Annual Re po rt . It is worth noti ng tha t FAWE 's joint work programme with UN ICEF WdS the focus of a special session on ensuring sustainab ility o f girls' education programmes during the FAWE General Assembly.The session provided an opportunity for FAWE chapters to take stock of the progress

t hey had ma de. challenges face d an d lear n fro m each other about st rategies for overcoming obstacles encou ntered. UNI CEF also made a major presentation on its work and the partnersh ip with FAWE .

Following intensive working meetings that included t he election of a new Executive Committee. the General Assem bly closed with a co lourful session in which a number of people were recognized for their contributions to FAW E and to girls' education .Awards included the Agathe Uwiyilingiyamana Awa rd , the

A breako ut session at the General Assembly

FAWE Award for Medi a Exce llen ce and cita tio ns for t he bes t performing girls in schools in various co untries in Africa.T he pom p and jubilation t hat marked t he closure of the Gene ral Assem bly reflec ted t he joy and satisfaction felt by most delegates for "a job well done." And it was in this same spirit that all delegates acclaimed. in unison. after Madame T heod o ra Daaku. Chair of the Ghana FAW E chapter: " l ong live FAWE, long live the National Chapters, and long live Africa!"

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increasing access. improving rete ntion and pe rfo rmance of girls.

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o r FAWE . for su b-Saharan Africa and indeed for the developing world as a who le.

2002 was a defining year in the campaign for Education For All (EFA). It was the year when the first big EFA goal became due-the production of viable and sustainable EFA country action plans by December 2002 .

and concensus on the social and economic

Mainstreaming Gender

FAWE Strategic Plan 20022006 under its four strategic

objectives: .:. To influ ence po licy formu la-

tion. planning and implementation in favour of

advantages of gir ls education through advocacy. .:. To demonstrate, through interventions on the ground. how to achieve

increased access, improved retention and better performance . •:. To influence re plication and mainstreaming of best

practices from the demonstration interven-

tions into broader edu catio n policy and prac tice .

T his section of this Annual

Repo rt focuses on the progra mmatic aspec ts of th e year's activities that have contributed to the acceleration of action towards EFA goals. in part icular ge nder mainstreaming EFA po licies and plans and demon st rating bes t practices in girls' education.

into EI A. National Action Plans For FAWE. the process of influencing gender mainstreaming of EFA plans was an imme nse le arn ing experience about how reform works in different countries. T he process demonstrated. among other things, the power of operating in partnerships and the importance o f building the skills of those to be entrusted with working with the policy makers and other key stakeho lde rs. FAWE's pa rt ne rship with UNESCO /BREDA. through a memorandum of understanding signed in 2001. was an important spring board for act ion. UNESCO ma ndated FAWE to monitor the level of gender responsiveness of EFA national action plans from su b-Saha ra n Africa.

FAWE 's insistence o n tho rou ghly preparing co re teams for this work, consisting of FAWE members and strategically positioned individuals in the education sector, has paid dividends. judging from reports presented at the 5th General Assembly. Reports of successful policy reforms and the adoptio n and implementation of strategies and activities for accelerating action towards EFA confirmed that FAW E's effo rts to influe nce the EFA process were suc cessful.

Of the 33 FAWE National Chapters, 21 are participating in EFA activi ties at th e national level. and four of these shared their experiences at the General Assembly: G uinea.

Namibia. Senegal and Tanzania .

T he prese nt atio ns by th e fou r countries revealed the wide assortment of measures undertaken to ensure that the question of gender equity in education is taken on board.

They range from establishing gender units in their Ministries of Ed ucat io n to inst ituti ng ge nde r respon sive teaching methodo logies and materials. Other actions are assessing curriculums and textbooks for gen der res ponsiveness, co nst r uct ing se pa ra te latrines for girls. an d popularizing best practices in girls' education.

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n Guin e a , a basic educ ation programme that aims at 100 pe rcent school attendance in 201 2 was app ro ved. pte d and launched in May 200 2.The President himself established a gender equity comm itt ee in the Iado Minist ry.With chapter assistance the Ministry has put in place a number of activities focusing specifically on girls. Among these are the construction of separat e lat rines for girls and the prov ision o f sch oolbooks and school uniforms.The next phase of the programme will focus o n education quality by reviewing the teacher training curriculum for gender respons iveness . incr ea sing the number of female teachers an d appo int ing fema le teachers to senior positions,

The N amib ia National Chapter explained that gender mainstreaming in the country has been greatly facilitated by the appointment of women to many senior positions in the Ministry of Educatio n.These women include the Deputy Minister. the Permanent Secretary and a number of sen ior directors. EFA activities began in ea rnest in early 2002 follow ing the appo intment of the Deputy Permanent Secreta ry in th e Ministry of Education as the National EFA co ord inator.An EFA strategic plan was ado pted with th e following provisio ns among its goals: c- By 2020 all girls should have complete and varied secondary schoo l ed ucation that includes science subjects . •:. Bursaries will be provided to nee dy students for tuiti on and fo r scho o l uniforms in order to expan d acce ss.

Among specific measures to realize EFA. Namibia intend s to introduce mobi le schools to serve rem ote areas. establis h farm scho ols o n large-scale commercial farms. prov ide education for refugee childre n. es pecialIy those from Angola. provide school meals . and perm it the use of the mother tongue in lower and junior classes . Pregnant girls and adolescent mo thers are no w allowed to co nt inue with their edu cat ion eve n as the Teenage Pregnancy Policy is be ing discussed . and learn ing op po rtunities fo r children with specia l needs are being provided. Programmes for gender sens itization of schoo l managers in Namibia are ong o ing.

As well as serving in the drafting team of EFA Country Act ion Plans. the Nationa l Chapter was nominated to represe nt Namibia at EFA consultation meetings of NGOs and Civil Society Organ izations in Malawi.

S e ne g al reported that the chapter had signed a collabo rative agreement with the Ministry of Educat io n to mutu ally support efforts to promote girls' educ at ion in the country. Partl y as a result. the Ministry ado pted J ten -year education and training programme that co nsiders gender as a crosscutting issue .Through the programme. the country will review the cur riculum for gender responsiveness and appoint a gender techn ical adviser to the Ministry of Educatio n. Practical implementation steps include train ing in policy analysis skills to ensu re the gend er res ponsiveness of the EFA national plan. popularizing bes t practices in girls' education and including gender concerns in national budgeta ry allocations.The Ministry will also dissem inate FEMSA best prac tices to key perso nnel in the Ministry of Educatio n with a view to mainstreami ng SMT for girls in natio nal educatio n po licies and plans and provide scholarships for girls. Besides these nat io nal level act ivities. the Senegal chapte r hosted a five-person delegation fro m Rwanda for orientation on the implicat io ns of the development of the EFA act ion plans.

Fro m th e Tanzania chapter came the report that a technical working group was es tab lished at the Ministry of Educatio n headquarters to take respons ibility for gender sensitization.The government of Tanzania has. in addition. take n con crete steps to increase enrolment rates in schools. colleges and un iversities and to ensure that th e questio n of gender equ ity is taken on board.The chapter worked with the Minist ry to put in place remedial measures to institute gend er-respo nsive teachi ng methodo logies and materials and review curr iculums to make them gende r re spon sive.As we ll. the chapter is working to encourage and support gende r mainstrea ming activities being undertaken in public universities such as the Tuseme programme at the Univer sity of Dar es Salaam.

To bring about gender equity before 2005 . the Tanzania government plans to build 12 boarding schoo ls and 12 hostels for girls by 2004 .At the un iversity level. through affirmative act ion. the government plans to ra ise the current female student population of 37 pe rcent to at least 42 percent by 2006 .

Part Iwo . Programme Report

changes are the result of col laborative wo rk by FAWE membe rs and t he Minist ries of Education.They participated in a varie ty of capacity building worksho ps. and went o n to put it into practice what they had learned. They reviewed the policies. discussed the changes. met with different stakeholders from the capital to the district level, and didn't stop until the new policy reflected gender equity.They faced many challenges. including a lack of resources. But more difficult to dea l with are perceptions and co nceptions of the true meaning of gender-a problem that results in poor planning and lack of gender mainst reaming.

Compounding t his are the diffi culties of maintaining the tem po and enthusiasm on any subject to do with gender among key stakeholders.

Nevertheless. as t he reports of the fo ur countries exemplify. considerable progress has been made in many countries.

Developing Gender Mainstreaming Tools T he repo r ts of o utc omes o f gen de r ma inst rea mi ng in e ducationa l poli cies . in pa r t icula r in EFA nat io nal ac t io n plan s . as presen te d at th e G e ne ral Ass e mb ly an d in t his An nual Re po r t . varied from co unt r y to

country but all provided im portant learning expertences.The reported outcomes are an indication of t he usefulness and effectiveness of the capacity building programmes undertaken by FAW E to enable its National Chapters to influence or lobby for mainstreaming gender into the EFA process.

As part of this process FAWE developed a small but useful gender mainstreaming tool, The ABC of Gender Responsive Education Policies - Guidelines for Analysis and Planning. This booklet spells o ut the ste p-bystep process of analysing ed ucation policies and plans for gender responsiveness and goes on to give principles of gender mainstreaming. It is part of FAW E's aim of ensuring that gender mainstreaming in all education policies and plans will continue among our National C hapters. even beyond the EFA national action plans.

D uring the yea r FAW E co nduc ted seve ra l workshops focusing on gen der main st rea ming. The first of t hese . he ld in N airob i o n 8-9 March, brou ght togethe r th e re gional and sub-regional co nsultants who had been co mmissio ned to train a core group of te n people in each of nine count ries-Ethio pia. Guinea. Kenya.

Mali. Malawi. Senegal.

Tanzania. Uganda and Zambiato influence and lead t heir countries in the crucial exercise of gende r mainstreaming of their EFA National Actio n Plans.The objective of this workshop was to review findings from the consultants' missions. share experiences and determine the way forward .

The overall findings pointed to an urgent need to have tools or mechanisms developed to guide and facilitate countries in this exercise . Observations had confirmed that much of t he information now available on solutions to problems facing girls' education was no t being translated into concrete action on the grou nd. Nei ther was this informa tion being used to influence policy reform.

Fo llowing this review workshop. FAWE immediately embarked on plans to develop

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1999 - Collection of documents on ed ucat io n policies and plans from 33 FAW E country chapte rs.

1999 - Development o f a frame work for the analysis o f educa tion policies for gender re spo nsiveness - The ABC of Reviewing Education

Policies for Gender Responsiveness.

1999 . In-depth analysis fo r ge nder resp o nsive ne ss o f education policies and development plans o f six FAWE co unt r ies: Ken ya.

Mozamb ique, Nam ibia. Uganda, Sierra Le on e an d Tanzan ia.

2000 - Trainin g o f regional and subregional cons ultants on th e use of the framework o n an alysis of education policies and plans for ge nder responsiv en ess.

200 I - Training o f a core group of ten people in each of nine countries-Uganda. Senega l, Kenya. Tanzania . Mali. Guinea. Ethio pia, Z amb ia and Malawi- i n gender analysis and mainstreaming in educa t ional p r o g r a mm e s.

2002 Ma rch 8-9 - Wo rkshop for regional and subregi o nal consultants to sha re experiences of training country core teams an d to plan the way forwa rd .

2002 April 16-18 - Deve lop me nt of tools for mainstreami ng gend e r into EFA action plans.

2002 April 29-30 - Training wo r kshop for anglo pho ne co untri es in Lusaka, Zambia. on use of th e to o l fo r ma instrea ming gender into EFA action plans .

2002 May 20-21 - Training worksh op fo r francophone countries in Dakar, Senegal. on use of the tool for mainstreaming gender into EFA action plans.

2002 July 8-10 - Countries share their experiences of gender main streaming of the ir EFA actio n plans during FAWE's 5th Ge neral Assem bly in N airo bi.

a framewo rk for ge nder mainstreaming. A workshop on 1618 Apri l in Nairobi, Kenya, foc used on technical skills of systematically designing. imple menting, monitoring and evalu ating effective strategies for girls ' education . It also provided gender mainstreaming principles that would guide the EFA action planning process.

O fficials of Kenya's Ministry of Education. members of the FAWE Kenya Chapter, staff from the regional secretariat and resource persons attended this workshop.

Subsequently. two other workshops were convened.

The first , in Lusaka. Zambia. on 29-30 April. catered for anglophone National ChaptersEthiopia. Gam bia. Malawi.

Namibia. Rwanda. Uganda, Tanzania and Z am bia.The second. in Dakar. Senegal. on 2021 May. was for francophone chapters-Burkina Faso.

Guinea. Mali. Senegal and Chad. In both meetings. core country teams of four persons each were traine d on the use of th e gen der mainstreaming tool deve lop ed earlier.

Participants included the gender focal point in the Minist ry o f Ed ucat io n. t he cou nt ry's EFA coordinato r, and members o f FAWE Nati ona l Chapters. regional secretariat staff and

Part Two - Programme Report

assigned consultants.The workshops focused on building the capacity of the participants in gender analysis and mainstreaming. and simultaneously se rved to modify and refine the mainstreaming tools.The workshop also se rved as a

stimulus for gender mainstream ing activit ies in other African countries.

These two workshops were milestones in the gender mainstrearn ing activit ies that FAWE started even before the World Educat io n Conference

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he purpose of this booklet is to address the gap in policy analysis and form ulation skills.The booklet walks the rea der t hro ugh three processes: a) establishing the basis for gender responsive po licy as a fo undat io n of basic human rights and economic development; b) analysing the existing policy framework to determine its gender responsiveness; and c) from t hat foundation. formulating gender responsive action plans.

The booklet has been used in the process of building the capacity of FAWE National Chapters-and of all EFA action plan teams-to integrate gender concerns into national education policies.

The text points out that the ultimate goal of gender mainstreaming is social transforma-

tio n as gender equality is achieved. FAWE knows well that this is a long and often painful process.The refo re a key element of gender mainstreaming is broad participation and partnership by local communities to build ownership and commitment to implementation .

This requires advocacy and mob ilization at all levels in order to ensure that gender is an integral part of policy development and imple mentatio n. It also means that there must be a clear link from existing problems to the perceived benefits of gender equity.The booklet hopes to aid that process .

in Dakar in 2000 . FAW E had embarked on these activities in response to cr itical findings that revealed inadequateofte n absen t-gender responsive ness in education policies and plans. as exemplified by the six sub-Saharan African co untries reviewed by FAWE-Kenya. Mozambique.

Namibia. Sierra Leo ne.

Tanzan ia and Uganda.

The four National Chapters reporting to the General Assembly were not alone in their quest for EFA.AlI FAWE National Chapters participated in a wide range of activities during the year to accelerate achievement of the Da kar goals. Burundi. Chad.

Cameroon. Gabon .The Gambia. Nam ibia. Rwanda and Togo joined o the r countries in Africa that have participated in the develo pmen t. rat ification or launch of the ir natio nal EFA plans t hro ugh worksho ps organized by t heir Ministries of Educat ion in co njunct ion with UNESCO or UNICEF. while Mozamb ique and Zimbabwe co ntinued to be act ive membe rs of the manage men t committees of the EFA movements in their countries. Malawi par-

ticipated in the review of the Educat io n Act as well as in mo nito ring of government ex penditure in educatio n. while Rwanda and Sierra Leone co o rdinat ed the committees wo rking on gender disparit ies in educat ion.

FAWE partici pated in the OXFAM o rganized global edu cation meeting for all OXFAM education offices. FAWE 's par ticipation was intended to provide the National C hapte rs with t he o ppo rtu nity to gain support for the EFA process through collaboration with OXFAM.Also. FAWE 's Executive Directo r parti cipated in a meeting in Amst e rdam convened by the World Bank in collabora tion with the Dutch Government. whose theme was Accelerating Action cowards EFA. FAWE also participated in the UNESCOI BREDA meeting fo r Ce nt ral Africa in Yaounde. Cameroon. and in the EFA Regional Fo rum in Chantilly.These mee t ings have provided a platfo rm fo r FAWE to share its experiences of the successes as well as challenges in ens uring production of viable and sustainable EFA action plans in subSaharan countries.

ational Chapters' Work for EF Burkina Faso conducted a national campaign for EFA and

discusse d modalities of cooperation with UNIC EF and Minist ry of Educat io n as part of its activities of the Glob al Act io n Week for Educatio n organized by the Glo bal Campaign fo r Educatio n.With the Prime Ministe r in attendance . the chapter held two meetings with the Ministry of Educat ion o n acce lera ting achievement of EFA.The chap ter also. alongside chapters in Tanzania and Senegal. comme nced disse minat ion of FEMSA best practices to key personnel in the Ministry of Educat ion with a view to mainst rea ming SMT fo r girls in national education policies and plans.

Burundi co mmissione d stu dies on barriers to girls' education and ide nt ificatio n of gender stereotypes in the natio nal cu rriculum. A tra ining workshop was conducted for chap ter staff on the collection and use of data and on gender and deve lopment.

Chad led two high-powered de legations of educationalists and med ia people to Mandelia in August to explore and plan the impleme ntat ion of a project for t he pro mot io n of girls' education in this semi-nomadic rural community. Subsequently. the chapter collaborated with DFAP and UN ICEF to embark

on development of a curriculum for tra ining the co mmunity.The chapter also part icipated in a meeti ng in Brussels in May to present t he country's proposal on its National Stra tegy for Pove rt y Redu ctio, focusing its input on realizing EFA goals.

Gabon achieved integra tio n c gender issues into educa tion st rategies to address failure rat es among girls during its par t icipat ion in the national EFA workshop orga nized by the Ministry of Educat io n.

The Gambia participat ed in the Gende r Expe rt Netwo rk to provide support to the National Women's Council in their ro le of advising government on gender policy issues Guinea, through the African Fede rat io n of Pare nts and Teache rs. participated in UN ESCO o rganized meeting' to inform and se nsitize deersian makers. media . paren ts and the education sector on the regiona l pro ject on "Parents' Schools " being esta' lished in Burkina Faso, Guine and Senegal.The chapter alsc participated in a workshop 0 Strategies for Improvement ( Equity in Highe r Education a took part in the establishme i of a comm ittee of National Ope rators in Literacy in Guinea .

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Mali took an active part in the development of the country's EFA National Action Plan. The chap ter is one of t he two NGO s sitting on the National EFA Board.

'T joined in consultations on affirmative action within MBESC. In September. the chapter coordinated a fiveday intensive revision of SMT and English for SS grade- I2 girls.

participated in a baseline survey on girls' basic education in five provi nces and in the dissemination of the survey results. T he cha pter convened a nati o nal workshop to elaborate the national EFA action to reduce gender dispari ties in education and regularly participated in the Ministry of Educat io n policy meetings. particularly those connected with development of policy on girls' education.

T he chapter is also being proposed to coordinate the country's elaborated EFA action plan on gender disparities in education. contin ued to operate seven non-formal primary school centres through it s branches countrywide for disadvantaged war-affected children. ma inly girls.The chapter also runs and manages the FAWE Primary School. worked with members of the community.

parents. NGO representatives. po licy makers and donor agencies to pre-test the draft parents' guidebook. organized a two-day workshop for Regional Educatio n Officers and Ministry of Educat io n officials to sensitize them on the causes of gender disparities. especially in SMT educa tion. and to familiarize them with the lessons learnt from the FEMSA project on the effectiveness of SMT camps for girls as well as other motivational activities .

T he chapter also participated in writing a pape r seeking suppo rt from the Commonwealth Ed ucat io n Fund.

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following a mission report of the EFA-Togo gender focal point to the Ministry of Education. the chapter chair. the EFA coordinator in the Ministry of Education and the EFA-Togo subregional focal paint were nominated to form a closed committee to bra instorm the establishment of a central network. prepare it s work programme and find resources for implementing programme act ivities , The chapte r was part of a national task force that formulated a gender respons ive education policy.The chapter also provided technical support

to two distric ts fo r the review of by-laws to protect children. refined and submitted guidelin es and tracking mechanism for the re-entry policy to the Ministr y of Ed ucat io n. plans to follow it up with the gender focal point at the Ministr y and took time to begin sensitizing school communities on the guidelines. To enhance understanding of the free education policy and its implications. the chapter organized a two-day sensitization workshop through ZANE C with funding from OX FAM. The chapter also participated in developing Minist r y of Educatio n plans fo r training female teac hers for primary schools. with a view to lobbying for more female ro le models in rural areas. It also hosted FAWE' s subregional workshop on gender ma instreaming and gender budgeting.

The chapter made submissions to Parliament and appeared before a parliamentary committee to discuss policy and programmes that would support female skills training and li t eracy.The chapter also participated in the external rev iew of the Ministry of Education 's Education Sector Strategic Plan.

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he for mida ble and challenging tas k of mainst rea ming gen de r into EFA action plans in 2002 was gr ea tly fac ilitated, d ire ctly o r indirectly. by d iverse groups working in other EFA areas: .:. Twenty-five countries. amo ng t hem 13 FAW E member countr ies. qualified for the World Bank Fast Trac k Initiative. a mechanism for

providing resources to assist these countries to deliver quality p rimar y sc hool education fo r all by 201 5.

yea r. therefore. advocacy act ties took d iffe rent forms but were all driven by the need ass ist countries in sub-Sahar Afr ica achi eve EFA goa ls. Ths focus was on pub lications. p sentations in internat ional ar local meetings. exhi bition s. panel discussi o ns. an d use 0 1 pr int and electron ic medi a.

•:. FAWE National Chapters and other grassroots orga nizations constituting mem bership of th e Global Campaign for Educat io n (3 worldwide coa lition o f develo pment NGOs and teachers un ions)participated in a we ek-lo ng series o f activit ies t o pro vo ke

governments and dono r grou ps to accelera te actio n to meet their EFA ob ligations . .:. The series of regional and subregio nal meetings of African membe rs o f parliament in preparation for the official launch of th e Forum for Afr ican Parliame nta r ians fo r Ed ucat io n (FAPED) in Tanzania in Dec e mbe r 200 2 is already playing a vital ro le in rallying po lit ical support to ensure EFA targets are implemented on schedule.A good number of the parliame ntarians are also FAWE members (by defin ition women cab inet ministers. vice chance llo rs. etc .). .:. African He ads of State. unde r the um brella of the New Par t ne rs hip for Afr ican Deve lo pme nt (N EPAD). made commit ments to rei nvigorate and extend education in Africa on th e bas is o f EFA goa ls as o utlined in t he Dakar framewo rk .

Advocacy n 2002. FAWE's aggressive advocacy programme target ed a wide spectr um of individuals. societies and orga nizations. from the international comm unities in global capitals to resource-poor rura l com-

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muni ties in small villages. Each one--the donor fraternity. government, N G Os. local commun ity. school. family. and the girl or boy-is recognized by FAWE as an impo rtant ally, wit h potential to ma ke a differe nce in th e cau se o f girls' educat ion . In t he course o f the

FAWE News, FAWE' s quart e maga zine. con tinue d to be a key vehicle for exploring pe nent issue s in girls' e ducatio A bumper issue com bining numbers I and 2 of volume featured the array of lnterve t ions impleme nted o n t he ground by FAW E an d its 33 N at io nal C hapte rs as part c t he st ockta king fo r t he Sth Ge ne ral Asse mb ly.Vo lu me I number 3. focused on the SI tus o f th e teac hing p rofessic in sub-Saha ran Africa. in c bs vance of World Teachers D~

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o n 5 Octob er and recognition of the key ro le teachers must play to achieve EFA.Th e last issue of the year. in what has beco me a tradit ion , was devoted to the presentatio n of girls' voices.This time. t he girls' poetry. drama , song we re structured around their partic ipation in t he pro ceed ings of the Gen eral Asse mbly.

Be sides T he ABC of Ge nder Respo nsive Educatio n Policies. mentioned above. other publications and advocacy packages produced wit hin this year include: '.' A prolife rat io n of flyers. bo oklet s. speeches, pictu res and gra phics fo r exh ibition and prom otio nal material for the 5th G en e ral Asse mbly

.:. Listen to Us.. .Ir's Time to sAet, a compilation of

testimonies of girls' experiences of gender discrim ination within the ir homes, in schoo l and in the co mmunities around t hem. .:. Two trai nng modu les in English for capacity building of National Chapters: • Nurturing Effective National Chapters • Centres of Excellence and the Pro motio n of Retention. Performance and Achievement .:. T he results of FAWE 's nonformal education research in Et hiop ia and Tanzania.

Moving beyond the Clossroom: Expanding

Learning Opportunities (or Marginalized Populations. compiled into three volumes . one full report for each country and a synthesis repo rt summarizing the findings and recommendations.

Displaying Our Wares in Exhibitions A Powerful Advocacy

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for girls' educ ation was exhibited literally during the year in a number of exhibitio ns in various national and international meetings . FAWE displayed materials at the National C hapters' meeting in Na irobi in March: during the consultatio n and donors meeting with the Department for Internatio nal Development (DFI D). in Nairobi in May; in the Asian Regio nal Ne twork Study To ur of Kenya and Uganda in August: and at a wo rksho p o n Strengthening Access to Q uality Educat io n for Refugee G irls; From Research to Action . in August.

The biggest exhibition of the year was mounted during the Sth General Assembly as National Chapters displayed the ir activities over the last three years to promote girls' access to , retention in and performance in education.The

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Hon. Kosgey and Prof. Mfama inspea a display at the General Assembly exhibItion.

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exhibition provided important reference points for in- depth

discussions of FAWE 's grass rOOtS interventions in key areas such as HIV/AIDS. girls' partici pation in science . mathematics and techno logy sub-

jects, combating poverty through bursary sche mes, improving girls ' academ ic performance. and girls' empower-

ment programmes.

The ex hibitio n also served to challe nge so me of the less active chapters to awake n. if t hey expect to achieve the EFA go als w it hin the time s speci fied.

FAWE prod uced a new th eme song on girls' education to take over from the old popular FAWE song. "Send your G irlCh ild to School." composed in 1995.Appreciat ing that much had bee n achieved in creating

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awareness about the value of girls' education. the new song captures the prevailing spir it. spearheaded by FAWE and the Educat io n Fo r All movement. that is appealing to all stakeholders to move beyond mere words and to act in support of girls' education. Six pop ular music groups participated in a competition coordinated by the Music Depar tment of the University of Dar es Salaam to come up with th e winning song. "Girls Sho uld Go to School",T he co mpet ition simultaneousl y provided rich publicity for th e cause of girls' ed ucation in Dar es Salaam. wh ile the song received wide acclamat ion from the de legates atten ding the G ene ral Asse mbly. Plans are in progress to produce a video of t he song for distri bution to key media outlets in Africa and FAW E National Cha pters.

In-depth presentations of National Chapter activities at the grassroots. covering the last three years-NFE Reports as prepared for the FAWE 5th Gene ral Assembly-provided a rich so urce of material for a major update of FAW E's website. T his was also an o ppo rtu nity to revamp the design of the website . giving it more sites and links and making it more user-fr iendly in terms of content. data collection. navigat ion and legibility.Th e re was a mar ked increase in use rs visiting the we bsite during the year. wit h many commendat ions from all over the world for th e site as a usef ul and credible sou rce of data on girls' ed ucat io n in sub-Saharan Africa.

FAW E works har d to nur ture it s partnership with t he me dia t o advance th e cause of girls'

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e ducation in Africa . At the regional level during 200 2.

FAWE rec eived wide publicity through press conferences. and radio and television interv iews . particularly on the occasion of the opening of FAWE Ho use.

The Ge ne ral Asse mbly attracted similar pub licity fo r the grassroots activities th rough. out sub-Sahara n Afr ica t hat are making a crucia l d iffe rence in girls' educ at io n.

For a goo d num ber of FAWE Natio nal Ch apters. me dia coverage intensified during th e Glob ai Act io n Week for Educat ion o rgani zed by the Global C ampaign for Educat io n (G C E) in collabo rat io n with UN ESCO o n 22-28 Apr il.

During t his week . FAWE chapters participat ed in a series o f activ ities advocating for girls' ed ucation. U g and a organi ze d a week- long advocacy cam paign fo r girls using the Sarah N tiro Lec t ure and Award, while the media spo tlight continued throughout t he year res ulting in three television programmes. three radio slots and five articles in national newspapers including a sixpage write up in The Monitor, one of Uga nda's premier news papers.

Ma law i, for its part. observed girls ' education week by intensifying its invo lve me nt in pro jects on UNICE F's Sara

C o mmunicat io n Initiative.

Amo ng other activities. the chapter distributed Sara Tshirts, posters and flyers with campaign messages on girls' education and translated Sara comics int o C hichew a for use by pup ils in classes 3 to 4 and the local community. S e n e g a l collaborated with UNI C EF and U NESC O to establish a project on media coverage of educat io n and trained journalists .

A wide range of other collaborat ive activ ities was carried ou t by FAWE Nat io nal C hapters and UNICEF in 2002 .

For exam ple. Chad took part in th e review o f the Basic Edu cat ion Pro gr amme for th e youn g Ch adian/UNICEF child and together with UNICEF develo ped a pro gram me o f e ducation fo r nomadic peopl es of C had . Gu in ea received suppo rt from UNICEF fo r capacity build ing fo r its members. while Tanzan ia successfully concluded discussions with U NICEF regarding t raining FAWE teachers to moni tor PEDP implementation and other reforms in relation to gender responsive learning.

Z a m b ia obtained UN ICEF support for launc hing th e G ir ls' Ed ucat io n Mo ve me nt (G EM) in the country and G ab o n launched a med ia cam paign on the chapter's work with the ass istance of UNI C EF. Ke ny a and UNIC EF held a follo w-up meeting on the deliber-

at ions an d recommendatio ns from the UN G EI meeting held in Ge neva in June .The UNGE I meeting addressed the role of N GOs and civil society organizat io ns in accelerating the achievement o f EFA. The FAWE Rw and a Chap ter, as coord inator of the country's EFA thematic group on disparities in educat ion, has worked closely with UNIC EF to advocate fo r girls' ed uca tion.A workshop on re du ction of disparities in education was organi zed on 21-22 August following a FAWE /U NICEF baseline survey o f the educatio n o f girls and vulnera ble ch ildren con du cted in five provinces in the cou nt r y.

Part of th e FAWE /UNICEF partn e r ship includ es involveme nt in AG El. D uring 2002 .

FAWE participated in the following AGEl meetings : .:. Te chn ical meeti ng on Parm e ring t he UNGE I to Int e nsify Progress towards Gender Eq uality in Educat io n. 21-23 Januar y.

Paris . .;. UNICEF Roundtable Meet ing on Ed ucat io n and Deve lo pme nt . 13-18 Fe br uar y. New York. .;. UN G EI Te chnical Meeting .

25-28 June . Ge neva.

Mea nw h ile . B u r u n di organ ized a series of r a di o transmissions on girls ' education and

G ab on launched a media cam paign on the chapter's wo rk with the assistance of UNICEF. Ethi opia had very successful me dia coverage of t he chapter's act ivities , including the EDDI scholarship and general issues on women.The programme has been aired twice on national television. Rw a nd a enhanced contacts and partnership with the media and aired several radio programmes on girls' education. Liberia collaborated with the Ministry of Educat io n to organize a conference for 50 media practitioners to sensitize them on activities and strategies of the approved Educatio n Act so as to ensure acc urat e reporting. interpre ta tion and dissemi nat ion of e ducation po licies and programmes.T he cha pter also organized a series of television and radio talk shows [0 enhance national awareness on gender equity and a good quality basic edu cation for Liberian children.

Fiftee n National C hapte rs have their own newsletters.

D uring 2002 many of these emphasized activities related to gender mainstreaming of EFA nat io nal action plans.

National Chapter Advocacy Strategies Burundi mainta ined a vigoro us mem bers hip re crui tment cam paign es pe cially among pro minen t govern me nt perso nalitie s.

Burkina Faso co nducted advocacy act ivities in t he region of Kamondjari in May and also o bse rved G irls' Education Day with act ivities fo cusing o n creating aware ness about t he dangers and preve ntion of HIV/AIDS. Cameroon participated in the exhibitions organized for the World Health Day and National Science Day. Chad celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March and continued to actively share and exchange information on girls' education with different stakeholders.

Ethiopia prod uced and distributed advocacy mat erial including br oc hures on th e chapter and the bursary scheme, and posters and key rings depicting chapter activ ities .

Gambia organi zed a membership recruitment drive and participated in a t raining course to build capacity and enhance efflciency of NGOs in advocacy.

Ghana kept its audiovisual mobile van busy in ru ral communities to crea te awa reness of the impo rtance of girls' educat ion. Th e chapter also o rganized television and radio ta lk sho ws on pe rtinent issues on girls' education .

Guinea's chap ter coordinator was nominated to represent the chapter on the co unt r y's

Com mittee for the World Fund for th e Fight against Malaria.

Tuberculo sis and HIV/AIDS. Th e chapte r will be nefit from t his fund .

Kenya celebrated Int e rn at io nal Women's Day by lau nching two district FAWE branches in Nyan za Province.T he launch provided the opportuni ty to sensitize community members to support girls' education.The chapter participated in the sec ondary school heads meeting in Central Province and brought up issues on sexual harassment. girls' perio rmance in SMT and the impact of HIV/AIDS on girls' educa tion.

Liberia continued wit h community sensitization, begun in November 200 I. on the importance of girls' education in G arw ular Dist rict and Co unty of G ra nd Cape Mount. In April, the chapter organized a parade t hro ugh the streets of Mo nrovia tha t culminated in t he presentatio n of a stateme nt on EFA to the legislat ur e.

Namibia organized a worksho p on sexual rights in Wi ndho ek.

Malawi o bse rve d its first Girls' Ed ucat io n Day ce lebratio ns on 21-25 January.To mark t his day, t he President of Malawi relea sed a pre ss sta temen t re cognizing the importance of

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girls' education.The chapter trained mothers' groups and heads of schools on economic advantages of girls' education. organized its third G irls' Educat io n Day on 21 October.

The theme t his year was Gender and Primar y Schooling: the Problem of G irls' Ed ucat io n.As part of t he advocacy strategy. the chapter organized radio and television programmes on girls' education and produced articles in the national newspaper. participat ed in International W om en 's Day ce lebra t ions and act ively shared and ex cha nged information on girls' ed ucation with different stakeholders. In this regard. the chapte r held meetings with officials from office of the co unt r y's First Lady and also with the he ads of schools owned by t he Catho lic Chu rch. wit h a view of seeking support for the chapte r.As we ll. th e chapter hosted various VIPs including th e Swedish Ambassado r. t he Minist e r of Fo re ign Co o pe rat io n in Swe de n. the wife of the Preside nt of the World Bank. and Sida and UNIFEM re pre senta tives to Rwand a. rra Leone o rganized peace education and trauma counselling worksh ops as part of its

drive to advocate for girls' education . Four of its branches. in Kenema . 80. Dar u and Langu. came together in a joint advocacy and sensitization programme on gender-based violence.T his was done in collaboration with the Family Support Unit of the Po lice.

T held four meetings within the year to organize a series of lobby ing activities to improve the chapter's visibility and create awareness of chapt er activities. particularly within t he Ministry of Educatio n.

"T"o ex tende d its se nsttlza tion activities to Kara a nd Savanes regions where community mobili zation was launched among parents with a view to fight sex ist stereotypes . Village chiefs were involved in this campaign .

Z m 1 particip at ed in a walk to mark the Glob al Week of Action for EFA and lobbied to have women appoi nted to management positions in the Ministry of Educatio n.

Z participated in the Zimbabwe International Boo k Fair whe re it displayed and distributed material to promo te the activit ies of FAWE and the chapte r.

Strategic Partnerships n 2002 . FAWE continued to strengthen and broaden its strategic partnerships in girls' education. not JUSt with governments and other agencies. but increasingly with the civil society.As part of this effort.

FAWE has encouraged active participation of its members in pan -African and international meetings.This has continued to be a key strategy for FAW E to ensure that gender concerns remain high on the agenda of deve lopment secto r-s and programmes. part icularly now that the attention of the whole world is riveted on achieving EFA goals.

More importantly, FAWE continued to seek and nurture collaborative programmes with organizations that are also concerned with influencing the transforma tion of education systems in sub-Saharan Africa to promote equity for girls in terms of access to. re te ntion in and performance in a good quality education.

FAWE mainta ins important partne rships at many levels.

The major partners are the governments, through t he ir Ministrie s of Educat io n. with whom FAWE enjoys cordial re lations. Because of th e commitme nt of African Ministe rs of Ed ucat io n real positive change

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Par t nerships with communi ties. with parents. with school managers. with teachers. and

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with girls and boys have helped to further the cause.

FAWE's major program-

(ED D I), a prog ramm e initiat ed by former US Pres ident Bill C linto n, is supporting bursary schemes in nine National

Chapters (G uinea, G hana,

Our major don o r partners

include ADEA. the Canadian Int ern ational Development

Age ncy (Cl DA), t he Carnegie Corporation, DANIDA, the

Bur kina Faso. Uganda. Ethiop ia.

Gambia. Kenya. Sierra Leone and Rwanda ) .Th e A ssociation

UK's Department for Int ernati o nal Development

UNIC EF, wh ich has offered valuable partnership to our

for the Development of Educat ion in Africa (ADEA)

Foundat ion. International Development Research Centre

National Chapters in collaborative programmes to improve

remains a steadfast ally. wh ile FAWE's participation in the Advanc e Africa proj ect helps to situate girls' reproductive health concerns in the educat io n context.

matic partners include

access . retention and performance . In the course of this

year UNICEF worked closely with FAWE in the implementa t io n of both the African G irls' Educat ion Initiative (AG El) and t he UN Girl s' Educat ion Initiative. UNICEF also facilitat-

ed FAWE 's participat ion in all

Other programmatic partners include the Association of

African Universitie s (AAU), Th e African Union (AU), Plan

majo r international mee tings

Internat ional. the Global

related to girls' education.

UNESCO-BREDA is the

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primary partner on the mainstreaming of gender in EFA national action plans.A memo-

Commonwealth Secretariat.

randum of understanding was signed for this purpose in 200I in which UN ESCO-BREDA is facilitating FAWE 's access to national action plans and dialogue over their gender

OXFAM, and the At the country level the National Chapters have established a multitude of partnerships with other educationrelated N GOs and civil society in general.

responsiveness. UN ESCO Paris injected the start up funds for the bursary schemes.

Another partner, the

(D FID), FINNIDA. th e Ford

(ID RC). Ireland Aid,The Rockefeller Foundat io n.The

World Bank. the Swedish International Development

Agency (Sida), UNIC EF, UNESCO and USAID, as well as the governments of Austra lia. France.T he N et herl ands and Norway.

N atio nal C hapt er do no rs have included, in addition, the private sector, embassies and individuals.

FAWE is grateful to all of these comrades in arms . In these partnersh ips. it is not always so much the money. although that is indeed important . but the commitment to im proving girls' education and the confidence they have exhibited in FAWE's potential and intention to make a difference .

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Collaborating with UNICEF The memorandum of under-

standing between UNICEF and FAWE in July 200 I codified the partnership between the two for work on the implementa-

tion of both the African G irls' Educat io n Initiative (AG El) and the UN G irls' Educat io n Initiat ive (UN G EI). .

Joining Hands with ECOWAS Follow ing the ECO W AS Subr egio nal Seminar on

G end e r Equality in Basic Educat io n: Majo r Cha llenges to Meet Dakar EFA Goa ls, held in Accra, Gh ana, 18-20 Februar y, FAWE was appoi nted a member of th e Worki ng G ro up of the EC O W AS Subreg iona l Coop eratio n Networ k.Th e six-member worki ng group is

charged with the task of defining t he work of t he netwo r k. planning its activities. and decidi ng on a division of labour and cooperation mechanism for network activities. in particular the network we bsit e being established.

The Royal orwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal N o rwegian M inist r y of Fore ign A ffair s. one of

FAW E's oldest and most generous supporters. sent a con sultant to FAWE in late May to appraise it s work in consideratio n of a proposal sub mitted by FAWE for lo ngterm fund ing. The proposal is for support of FAW E's expanded programme of activities under its revised Strategic D ire ct io n 2002-2006.

Nurturing Other Partnerships FAWE undertook consultat io ns and dialogue w ith many o ther partners in 2002 .As always. any participat io n or inte rac t ion wit h other partners is an activity that is t ho ro ughly prepar ed in terms of FAW E's con tribution. analysis of possible collaboration o pportunities and necessary follow -up.Among o thers. these inte ract io ns included: .:. Co ns ultative Meet ing of the G ro up of Eight (G8) Task Fo rce on Educatio n. Paris.

7 February .:. Unit ed Nations Eco no mic C o mmissio n for Africa (UN ECA) African Develo pme nt Forum.Addis Ababa. 3-9 March .:. New Partne rship for Africa's Deve lo pme nt (N EPAD),Addis Ababa, lOI I March •:. Asso ciat io n for the Deve lo pme nt of Educatio n in Africa (AD EA) Stee ring,

Leade rs and Co o rdinato rs' Meet ing, Paris, 2-5 April .;. FAW EID FID Partn e rs hip Meeting, Nairobi, 14- 17 May .:. World Summit on Susta inable Development.

Johannesburg, 26 August-4 September .:. Disse minat io n Workshop on Strengthening Access to Quality Educatio n for Refugee Girls, Nairobi. 29 August with UN HC R .;. ECO W AS Ed ucat io n Ministers' Meeting in Dakar.

20-2S Sep tember .;. Regio nal Co llect ive Co nsultat io n of NGOs o n EFA (Pre- MIN EDAFVIII), Lilongwe , 30 Septem ber-2 Octob er .:. Th e Fo r um for parliarnenta rtans (FAPED) Dar es Salaam, 26-28 Nove mb e r .;. The MINEDAFVIII, Dar es Salaam.Tanzania. 2~6 De cem be r.

National Chapters Widen Circle of Partnerships Cameroon partne re d with the Minist r y of Public Healt h and the Minist ry of Women's Affairs t o pro vide amendments to t he docum e nt on the se ctor strategy for t he pro motio n of wo men.

Chad signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministr y of Education Technical C ommitt ee for the Promot ion

of G irls' Scho oling (T C PGS) in recognition of its contribu tion to this important endeavour.

Ethiopia created and sustained partnerships wi th various organizations working in the area of girls' education.

su ch as USAID.Winrock Inter national. PACT-Ethiopia and British C ouncil.

Kenya, in a new partners hip

with CARE Kenya. received financial suPPOrt and technical training to equip the chapter to move Onto the second

Education. participated in the monitoring of budget expenditure on education.The chapter also collaborated with the Ministry of Education and UNICEF to train district education managers and primary education advisers in gender responsive teaching in health. hygiene and nutrition. Schools have started introducing improved hygiene practices especially in sanitation and are now usinggender responsive teaching methodologies .

Mali benefited from a training course on resource mobiliza-

t ion organize d by USAID.

Swaziland commenced an assessment of gender equality in vocational and technological institutions in order to bring to the attention of their administrators the gender inequalities in their enrolment policies.T he chapter continued to involve government. donors.

N GOs . universities and cornmunities in the research work and interventions of projects to improve girls' education programmes.

Tanzania is collabora ting with a wi de variety of organizations to improve girls' education.

including UNICEF. Sida.

gra des 8-10 in Oshakati,

C ommonwealth Education Fund.Tanzania Gender N etwork on Education. among others.Th e chapter is undertaking joint activities with H aki Elimu on the implementation

appoin te d a membe r of the re cently launched Task Fo rce

Northern Namibia .

of PEDP.

on G ender. Education and Training.T he chapter expects to receive support from the Commonwealth Education Fund. a fund to be provided to 17 countries to mark the gold en jubilee of the coronation of

Rwanda partnered wi th C hristian A id and also with the Rw anda Information Department and the C anadian International D evelopment

Zambia continued to offer

phase of its Mbee re Girl-C hild Project.T he chapter continued to work closely with th e M inistr y of Education and was

Namibia partnered with VSO and U NAM to provide a oneweek vacation school for

Agency (CIDA) to increase and

Education.

sustain the visibility of girls' education issues and FAWE Rwanda actions. mainly through radio programmes.

The chapter also maintained contact with universities and university student associations through joint workshops and exchange of information. with

Malawi , together with the Civil Society Coalition on

issues in institutions of higher learning.

the Queen of England.T he chapter participated in part nership activities organized by Elimu Yetu C oalition. the H einrich Bo ll Foundation G ender Forum and the Kenya

Dep artme nt of Adult

the goal of identifying gender

leadership for the GEM network and to sit in committees of a variety of platforms including the poverty reduction strategy paper and the Ministry of Education Strategic

Planning and Eq uity and Gender Committee.The chapter also participated in the

NORAD workshop on the human rights based approach to education and took part in developing a joint proposal to the Commonwealth Education

Fund and in reviewing USAID's three-year country assistance

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strategy, Chapter mem bers trained in the use of the Sara communication strategy, a use ful too l for peer mentoring.

Zimbab we's feeding and shel-

te r programme for nee dy children is a partnership with Plan Int e rnat ion al. while UNICEF is a majo r par tner fo r gender se nsit izatio n wo rksho ps for educatio n of po licy makers, as wel l as advocacy and skills trai ning on abuse and exploi ta tion of food aid programmes for children. Th e chapter has also worked out a partn e rship wi th Ro ckefeller Fo undat ion to

run a wo rksho p on project proposal wri ting. Two planning mee tings have been held with the Mi dlands State Unive rsity on the Ro ckefelle r funded project on sexual maturatio n.

interventions into a single package, and secondly best practices in science and maths education for girls.The Nationa l Chapters, to o, implemen ted a wide variety of demonstration interventions duri ng the year.

Focusingon Excellence The presentations at FAW E's 5th Genera l Assembly by the four Centres of Exce lle nce in Kenya. Rw anda. Senegal and

Tanzania demonstrated clearly that this intervention mode l, init iate d on ly three years ago, has indeed reached a point of noticeable maturity. The session brought together teachers, parents, community leaders, Ministry of Educat io n officials. and FAWE girls and boys.

Demonstration Interventions If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good demonstration may be worth a t housand pictures.

De monst rat ing what works is one of FAWE 's most important vehicles for deve loping and disseminat ing best practice . In 2002, demo nstration inte rventions at the regiona l level featured. first and fo remost, the Ce ntres of Excellen ce. which consolidate a whole range of effective

and the combined impact of t he ir presentations was a very clear picture of t he ho listic character of the programme at the Centres of Excelle nce.The sessio ns confirmed that FAWE' s emphasis on building

strong partnerships with all key players involved in girls' educatio n, and eq uipping each for their individual ro le through capacity building, was a major component of the success of this intervention.

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The Intervention Package The programmes at the Centres of Exce ll e nce repre sent the distillation of best practices identified from across the continent and around the world.They are brought together in an integrated. ho list ic package that encompasses the curriculum, the facilities. the equipment-along with gender res ponsive teaching staff and girls who are empowered to appreciate both their own intrinsic huma n value and the importance of education.

Student Participation A dramatic three-act play presented during the Gene ral Assembly involved dialogue

between the students and "spirits of fema le ancestors" who had come back to earth co ncerned about the lack of advancement among women and girls in Africa. To convince the spirits that progress is being made, the students gave

an ex pose of th e activities at the Centres of Excellence t hat aim to improve their academic, social, e mot io nal and psychological we ll being.The stud e nts to uched on t heir well equippe d classrooms. science and co mpute r laboratories. and libraries.They cited well trained teachers and the availability of bursaries for needy studen ts.They po inted .to the rich ex tra -curricular menu of round tables . debates, guest speakers. girls' clubs. role mode l program mes , student newsletters and field visits.And t hey exp resse d th eir gratitude for t he guidance and counselling des ks at every Cen t re .

The girls from the Ken ya Centre talked abo ut the rescue programme in t heir school. Rwanda girls ex plained the emphasis on peace and reconciliation in their curriculum and the establishment of Peace Clubs .The Tanzania students presented the now well known Tuseme process for ¡girls' empowerment. while those fro m Senegal pointed to all the new facilities recently inco rpo rated into their schoo l management system-compu ters. the school fence . and do nations of boo ks and school accessories by FAWE and t he paren ts' comm ittee.

M inistry of E.ducat ion Part icipation Re prese nta tives of the Ministr ies of Educatio n from the four countries asserted t hat there was excellent rapport between the ir Ministries and the Centres and that the Minist ries have been challenged to re plicate and mainstream this concept in other schools in the countries.

Teacher Partici pation Teachers from the four Centres explained the ernpha sis FAWE has placed on their acqu isition of skills in a reas like gender responsive teach ing

Joint Activities by the Centres in 2002 Participation of staff in the process of evaluating programmes in their schools and in the sub-

me thodologies. guidance and counselling. teaching of science, mathematics and tec hno logy subjects, and school self-evaluation .They also men t io ned t he o pportu nities availed to t hem to meet and share experiences with teachers from other countries.

Paren t /Com m unit y Part icipation Parents and community elders came out with a strong message of support for girls' educat ion.They thanked FAWE for o pening their eyes to the value of educating their daugh ters and at t he same time for e nlighte ning t hem o n the ro les they t he mselves can play to remove the constrai nts t hat have long stood in the way of t heir daughters' academic progress.

sequent planning for improvement is essential. if the quality of teaching and learning is to be enhanced.Th is co ncept formed the basis of a FAWE/C o mmonwealt h Secretariat (Leade r of the ADEAWorking Gro up on Teaching Pro fessio n) training workshop on school self-evaluat ion held in Nairob i in April 2002.The five-day event brough t togethe r 51 teachers from all four Centre s o f Excellence in a highly parucipatory workshop.The struc ture of the works ho p ensured tha t the participating teac hers left t he meeting with rea listic act ion plans in prog ress to be conti nued in their res pec tive schools.

All four Centres have guidance and co unselling units and some have trained peer coun sellors to help the teac hers in the programmes run by the schools.Thus . the capac ity building of the 5 I Centre of Excelle nce teachers also encompassed a guidance and counselling co urse held at the same time .The course covered the following topics:

School evafuation workshop

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The Centre of Excellence at AlC Girls PrimarySchool, Kajiado, Kenya

Kenya

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.:- Improving girls' English language proficiency .:. Cultivating a r eadi ng culture among girl s

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.:. Instituting school-based teacher development Rwanda .:. Curriculum delivery

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.:. Relat io ns w ith parents and the community

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Tanzania .:. Teaching and learning processes .:. Management of pupils ••• Po licy and planning

.:. Th e confident. motivated and empowered te acher '.' Understanding the world of the yo ung person .:. Interpersonal relations at the work place ••• Basic skills and techniques of counselling .:. Role playing in coun selling

Primary Sch o o l in Kenya rece ived a majo r boost to its q ues t to im pro ve t he ed ucati on o f Maasa i girls w he n t he Pr eside nt o f Kenya officially o pen ed t he Centre on 28 Septembe r 2002. T he Pres ident co mmended FAWE for it s wo r k in girls' education. especially for taki ng actio n at the grassroots. and urged the community to do away with the practice of early marria ge.

All Out Campaign by Chiefs to Improve the Education of

Maasai Girls Because a majo r fo cus of the Kenya Centre is on the reintegration of girls rescued fro m fo rced mar riages into no rmal school ing. a workshop on the reco nciliat io n process for the rescued girls was held on 9-10 May.Twenty-one chiefs repres enting all the locations in Kajiado district participated.

This was a follow-up meeting to a se nsitization workshop for chiefs held in July 200 I. At that t ime all the chiefs pledged to go back to t heir respective divisions and mount an allinclusive campaign to pro mote

girls' education-rescuing unde rage girls forced into early marriages: prosecuting the culprits; organizing for the reentry of rescued girls into schoo ls; and sens itizing communities on the dangers of these negative practices to the hea lth and future lives of these girls.The meeting in May 2002 was to receive repo rts from the chiefs on their pledges made the pre vious July.The ir re ports were an astounding glimpse of just how supportive commu nities can becom e after realizing the value of educating thei r childre n in a wholesome en vironment.

Ale Teachers Commended for Girls' Improved Performance The Kajiado girls' performance in natio nal primary exam inations rose fro m 61 pe rcent pass in 2000 to 85 perce nt in 200 I. Each te acher at the Centre received an awa rd in recognition of the improved academ ic standards.A planning meeting for 2002 school act ivities in January brought together all the teac hers at the school. the District Education Officer. two representatives of the school comm ittee and senior staff from the FAWE reg ional secretariat.The target of the meeting was to examine all issues that would sustain the improved academic performance of students in year 2002 .A plan o f act ion was

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An addition al 16 nursery schools were built in the distr ict spread over nine locations.

Twelve chiefs mentioned the initiation or existence of a bur sar y fund in their locations for needy girls.

Five chiefs had rescued young girls from forced marriages.

Two chiefs organized sup port for a tota l of seven

AIDS orphans in their

drawn that included regular consultatio ns with parents. chiefs and te achers to institutionaliz e the ir ro le in the school programme .

locations.

Seven chiefs organized the re-entry into school of a

total of eight girl

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mothers/rescued girls.

Bursa ries for Re scued G irls

Four teen chiefs said that no girls in their locations

FAWE continued to provide bursaries to girls at the Centre under the rescue programme .

Financial support has continued for 23 girls in secondary schools and four girls in institutions of higher learning.

had dropped out of school because of pregnancy during the one-year period.

Sw e dish Del egatio n a t AIC

On 18 September. an eightperson de legation from the

Embassy of Sweden and visitors from DESO Sida. led by the Swedish Ambassador to

Kenya. visited the AIC Centre escorted by officials from

FAW EK.The guests were very impressed by the achievements of the Centre and the confidence and exuberance por-

trayed by the girls.They pledged to assist the Centre and began with a donation of books for the library.

Kajiado Studen t a t SADC Meeting Grace l.armol, a Form III Maasai girl from the Kenya Centre represented FAWE at the Southern Africa Development Community

(SADC) Meeting for the Girl¡ Child held in Windhoek.

Namibia. on 8-9 September.

Hosted by the Namibian Women 's Association. the meeting. among other issues. shared the experiences of best

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Excellence at <\V\; f ( Is ch I a T he impact of the Rwanda C ent re to date has bee n so po sit ive that it is genera ting its own demand.Activities are under way to replica te the Centre of Exce lle nce interve ntion package in two more scho ols. which will pr ovide quality education for an additional 1.200 girls. Meanwhile . fund raising for ex pansion of the existing C e nt re and the supervision of t he construction wen t o n in 2002.

Second Tuseme Workshop A five-day Tuse me wo rkshop held at Kacyiru on 22-26 March was facilitated by theat re fo r development special ists fro m the Unive rsity of Da r es Salaam.Tanza nia.T his w as t he second such event in th e FAWE school. It targeted Form II girls and teachers who had no t participat e d in the earlier Tuseme workshop. held in Decemb e r 1999.

At t he en d of t his year's workshop. t he stu dents were Visibly more confident. articulate and able to voice problems that they realized interfered

with their education. and to suggest solutions.T he teachers. too. had a better understand ing of t his empowerment process. and t oget he r with the st udents embarked on drawing a real action programme to meet the socia l and academic needs facing the girls in the school. At the same time. activities were undertaken to enhance the Tuvuge Clubs. which continued to increase self-confidence and empowerment of girls.

Bursaries to Combat Povert y Bursarie s continued to be awarded to the most needy girls in 2002.W itho ut the boardin g facilities and financial support. many of t he se girls would no t have bee n in school in the year under review.

Th ('n e u Lxcellen t Mguzu

A highlight of th e year for Mgugu was t he addition of e nhance d physical facilit ies.Th e girls are now enjoying the new boarding space availed to them thro ugh the completion of two new dormitories.And the t eache rs are taking advantage of t he new r esou rce centre completed during the year.

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ence because of the long distance to other teacher devel opment facilities. the resource centre will serve as a meeting and study area and depository for books. journals and other information resources for use by teachers. It w ill also encou rage and enhance interaction by prov iding room for visiting resource persons and consultant s who visit FAWE C e nt res for wo rkshops and skills training in vario us areas.

Besides the new facilities. the Centre continued to support very needy girls through allocation of bursaries.Without this assistance these girls. who come from very poo r families. wou ld not be able to continue in school.

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G rand D io ur be l. t he newest of the Centres of Exce llence to date. continued to enhance both it s physical facilities and the em powerme nt of its students and teachers.A three person team from the FAWE regional office. visiting the Centre early in the year as part o f a mission on EFA consultations. express e d satisfaction with the leve l of accomplishment to date and noted that enrolment of girls in the school had increased significantly.

Empowerment

Grand Diourbel had its first taste of the Tuseme training

process on I 1-15 October.The training targeted all Form II

students (50 girls and 84 boys) and Form III girls (41).Their teachers and the school administration also took pan in the programme.Tuseme was translated into Wolof as Nagnu Wakh and integrated into the Tuseme song. A Tuseme board was elected and groups were formed to improve academic performance.T he workshop proved very useful to all in identifying strengths and weaknesses of the school and suggesting practical solutio ns.

Earlier in the year a two-day works hop on the use of a database developed for moni toring the performance of girls was organized for Centre teachers as well as school administrators.

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Two more school blocks were added to the facility. courtesy of the Ministry of Education. along with science equipment and materials that have greatly enhanced the teaching and learning of science subjects and mathematics in the school.

Bursaries T he G rand Dio urbe l Ce ntre' s bursary scheme was launched

in January. with 60 girls (40 in grade I. 19 in grade 2 and I in grade 3) forming the first group of recipients.The bursaries also cover textbooks. stationery. school bags and a small amount for transport.

Integrating FEMSA Best Practices into the FAWEWork Programme Following the winding up of the project on Female Education in Mathematics and

Science in Africa (FEM5A) in De cembe r 200 I. after a run of six years ( 1995-200 I), FAWE spent most of 2002 identifying. consolidating and integrating

FEM5A best practices into the FAWE work programme.

The packages were identified in the course of evaluation

missions to the I I FEM5A countries during Januar y and Februar y this year.The evaluation task involved reviewing country reports. analysing documentation of best practices.

visiting successful FEM5A projects and consulting with project beneficiaries-students. teachers. parents and community representatives .

Consultations were also held with FEMSA steering committees and Ministry of Education officials on the potential for replicating and mainstreaming the identified best practices.

Follow ing the field visits.

FAWE conducted an in-depth analysis of the best practices within each country. recom mending at least two success ful inter ventions per country for integration into the FAW E work programme. Funds were then provided to Swaziland.

Mozambique and Cameroon to implement a package of SMT best practices into selected primary schools and to develop mainstreaming strategies

for 5MT. In the}"W under review,a number of NatiornJ Ch>pter; implemented approaches recommended through the FEMSA SllJdies fOr pr0moting the learning and teaching of SMT fOr girls.

Burkina Faso organized a competition in SMT subjects. while Namibia offered extra weekly mathematics and physi cal science classes for grade 12 girls in preparation for the secondary school examinations.

Swaziland presented findings of a school study undertaken in 200 I on participation and

performance of girls in 5MT subjects to UNIC EF stakeholders for discussion of the intervention project by teacher

training colleges. 5wazilard also held a COl1\.e'\1ion to bring roged...girls and ou=nding """""" in edueatJOl1 to share expel iet ICes, as part of a stTa"'l:)' to motivate young girls to take _ in SMT sWjecrs and careers,

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AW E'S evaluation of t he FEMSA project yielde d a co mprehensive list of pr act ices that improve access, par-

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ticipation and perfor mance of girls in SMT in various countries.

including:

Science newsletters • With a full-fledged productio n and editorial team made of girls themselves. newsletters provi de an excellent means of developing

girls' self-confidence and improving their self-expression.

Science camps/clubs • A big part of the solution to the lack of conducive environment

for learning SMT subjects by providing an ideal setting where girls are introduced to hands-on activities by skilled teachers, usinggirlhiendly methods.

SMT clubs Fo r ums from which girls can express themselves through various activities, including SMT competitions. fairs. open days. guest speak ers and field visits. »

improve teachers' methodology and skills in handling SMT subjects and to be kept constantly updated on new techniques.

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From telev ision and radio talks on girls' science education and media coverage of school fairs and op en days to the production of promotional material suc h as calendars.Tshirts. stickers and others items with messages on girls' science education.

Teacher capacity building' This is ideally achieved through school-based workshops and the aim is to

K enya coordinated the visit of

Mr. O laf Sandkull , a delegate from Sweden at the FAWE General Assembly, to Central Primary School in Kiwi, one of the schools in the pilot pha se

Guidance and coun-

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house guidance and counselling manuals based on a school's exper ience of this activit y can be produced and shared with other schools and are always available in a school for new teachers .

InstnJctionaJ materiaJ development · This involves tailoring teaching materials provided in schools to the needs of students by making them more practical, gender responsive and user friendly.

of the FEMSA project. The school is noted for its excellence in SMT activities.

Uga nda 's week-long Sarah Ntiro Lecture and Award celebration in April was a campaign

Study tours T hese generally involve visits to factories or industries where girls have a practical on-site demonstration and hands-on experience of activities that take place in their daily lives. »

G ender sensitization workshops . Targeting different stakeholders. these workshops provide awareness on the difficulties faced by girls in the learning of SMT subjects.

School resource centres· T his ensures a permanent informat io n and awareness service and provides support for girlsin SMT learning

to interest girls in scientific subjects and careers.The chapter also reviewed guidelines developed by FEMSA for integration into EFA national action plans .

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he Female Educat io n in

Mat hemat ics and Science in Africa Pro ject (FEMSA) was a two-stage. five-year ( 1997-200 I)

project of the Assoc iation for the D evelo pment of Educat io n in

Africa (AD EA). under the Working G r o up on Female

Participatio n (WG FP). It was hosted by FAWE . Phase I of FEMSA lasted for two years and involved Came ro o n. G hana.

Tan zania and Uganda.After a sixmonth transition. a three-year second phase began in eight new coun t ries : Bur k ina Faso. Kenya.

Malawi , Mali, Mo zamb ique,

Senegal. Swaziland and Zambia.

Th e pro ject invo lved in-de pt h stu dies in schools to gather info rma t ion o n girls ' acc ess to schoo ling. th eir participation in math em at ics and sciences. and t he ir performance in national

exam inations . Stude nts. teacher s.

school committees and parents were interviewed.The study also examined the countries' policies o n education in rela tion to girls.

Several reports were compiled highlight ing the reasons girls did not perform well in SMT and what int e r ve nt io ns can amel iorate this situatio n.The reports were circulated widely to influence interventions to improve girls' participation and performance in SMT in Africa .

In October 1999. FAWE was given the leadership of the ADEAIWGFP. Subsequen t consultations agreed to integrate the com ponents of t he W G FP into a single pro gram me un de r FAWE .

Thi s led to the exe rcise of ide ntifying, docu me nt ing and consolidat ing be st pra ctice s in FEMSA und er the FAWE work pro gr amme; a task t hat co nt inued th rou gho ut 200 2.

G hana. Mali. Uganda and Zambia.

The Alliance Pro ject was established to channel funds and

technical assistance to loca l non-government and co mmunity-based organi zations to promote the educat ion of girls and women at the grassro o ts level. T he project was implemented in five co untries: Chad.

Girls conducting a science experiment

Li ke FEMSA. the Alliance pro[e ct was closed in 200 I and FAWE imme diat ely em barke d on an exercise to ide ntify and document best practices from the project fo r consolidation into the FAWE wo rk programme. Evaluat io n miss ions to the Alliance countries were und ertaken dur ing January and Fe bruar y in conjunction with t he FEMSA evaluation.The evaluation mission involved reviews of project reports. visits to se lec ted successful projects. discu ssions wit h pr oject ben eficia ries and mee tings w ith me mbe rs of th e national stee ring co mmittees. Followin g the field visits, at least two sueces sful pr o je ct s per co untry were recomme nded for inte grat ion into t he FAWE work programme . So far, funds for replicating and mainstreaming Alliance best practices have been provided to three Alliance projects : two in Uganda- the Nat ion al Association of Women 's Organizations of Uganda, Kalangala Branch. and Aligo Women and Youth Coopera tive, Nebbi. and to one project in G hanaNyariga- Done Mo t he rs' Club Girls' School.

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The popu lation o f close to 6,00 0 people is very tra dit ional. w ith cu ltura l practices th at militate against the we ll being of girls and wome n. Until 1997, there was no t a single school in the vil-

lage , the nearest sc hoo l being in t he adjacent Bo ngo dis-

trict, a 5km journey.

T he d istance became a barrier to the conti nuat ion of girls' education.

A we lfare club t hat had been formed by a grou p

of illiterate women for purposes of working together in inco me-genera ting

projects twice suffered embarrassment and shame because of their illit-

erate status. Fi rst, a bank refused to ope n an acco unt for

the m because no ne co uld handle the re quired o perations.

O n another occasion . a woman of a neighbouring village instead of one of their own, was tra ined as a coordinator by an NG O esta blishing a health p roj ect in N yar iga village. Th is shame led to the ir founding a girls' school under a tree in 199 7.

Successful application to the Alliance project for suppo r-t resulted in the overnight transformation o f the school. Fur t he r assistance came from the FAWE chapter. the Ghana District Education Bo ard. G hana Water and the whole Nyariga- Done community.

Today, the school that started with 35 girls in 1997 has a population of 163 and most education facilities are in place.

This determination made FAWE choose to continue funding this group even after t he Alliance pro ject wound up.

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age who is infected, there are frve to six girls infected in t he same age group. (Young People and HIVIAIDS: Opportunity in Crisis. UN AIDS/W HO, 200 2).

Educat io n is particularly affecte d. A World Bank stu dy o f 33 African countries fo und that 31 of them are in the cat egory of the 55 of the po orest countries in the world that seem unlikely to ach ieve EFA by 20 IS and are also among the 36 worst affected by HIV/AIDS (EduCQtion and HIVIAID S - A Window of Hope, T he World Bank, 200 I. p. xvi).

The study also points out that HIV/AIDS is estimated to add upward of US$5 S0 million pe r year to the COSt o f achieving EFA in the 33 countries studied (pp. xvi-xviii).

Clearly. the present scale o f the epidemic presents an unprecede nted cha llenge to the reali zation of Educat io n Fo r All in sub -Saharan Africa.

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The HIV/AID S epide mic in su bSaha ra n Africa continues to escalate an d women account for th e majority o f pe rson s with HIV in this region (S8 perce nt ).Yo ung women. in particu lar. have co nsistently been

found to have higher prevalence rates t han men in the same age group. It is es timated that more than two -t hirds of new HIV infections in 15 to 19 year-ai ds in th is region ar e among girls.T his ratio var ies in individual co unt ries. In Et hio pia. Malaw i,Tanzania.

Za mbia and Z imbabwe , for ex am ple. for every boy t hat

Because the HIV/AID S ep idem ic in sub-Saharan Africa is d r iven by sexual transmissio n of the virus, most school children, particularly those below age 15, even in t he most affected countries are not infected. It is these children who are t he key to overco ming the epide mic.

HIV/AIDS programmes initiated by FAWE are currently focusing on this cri t ical age

group in ten National C hapters-Burundi, Bu rk ina Fa so, Cameroon. Gabon, Kenya,Togo, Mal i, N amib ia , Z amb ia a nd Z imbabwe .

The focus is on skills-based HIV/AIDS education - going beyond mere provision of informa tion and e mpowering girls with t he know ledge. co mmitment and courage to say no to early sex ual enc ounters.

Through club activities. guidance and counselling. and role model progra mmes girls cultivate self-est ee m and assertiveness.They are equipped to make healt hy de cisions abo ut their own lives and to raise t heir aspirat io ns for achievement- skills that ar e key to girls' ability to protect the mselves against HIV/AIDS.

The Advance Africa Consortium An important par tner in the HIV/AIDS struggle is the Advance Africa conso rt ium. In March , fou r chapters. Kenya .

N am ib ia , Z a mb ia a n d Z imbabwe . participated in a capacity building workshop in Nairob i jointly o rganize d by FAWE /Advance Africa to strengthen chapte r capacities to implement re productive health relat ed programm es fo r you ng girls.A similar workshop was held in Bamako for francopho ne countries-Bu r kina Fas o , Burund i. Cameroon ,

Ma li and To go----<o uring the same month.At these worksho ps, the Natio nal C hapte rs had the occasion to ex change information and experiences abou t the programmes they carry out in their res pective coun t ries, and to learn about the work of Advance Africa.

The workshop agendas included an exercise on pro posal writ ing skills, and by t he e nd of the event each participant had developed a proposal for inte grating reproductive health into its o ngo ing programmes.

Th ese proposals have been forwarded to relevan t funding agencies including Advance Africa. Some chapters. such as Kenya . have re ported successful feedback in their fund ra ising endeavours.

Advance Africa is an innovative joint venture. funded by

The Advance Africa Partners Managem ent Scie nces for Healt h (MSH) Family Healt h Inte rnat io nal (FHI) C entre for African Family Studies (CAFS) Forum for African Women Educationa lists (FAW E) Academy for Educational Development (AED) Deloitte To uch Toh matsu (DTT)

the US Agency for International Develo pment. t hat brings together six par tner o rganizatio ns. two of which are Africa based . to ensure a coordinated and intensive response to the re pro ductive healt h pro blems of adolescents.The goal of the Advance Africa Project is to increase the availability and use of susta inable. quality family plann ing and re pro duc t ive health se rvices in sub-Saharan Africa by applying a broad range of expertise.

Fo r FAWE. whose mandate is to pro mote girls' partici pation in educat ion. reproductive health-rela ted pro blems like teenage pregnancies. abortions and t he com plications and responsi bilities that go with childbearing. cons titute a big barrier to girls continuing in school and receiving a quality edu cat ion. FAWE co ntributes to the Advance Africa partne rship through empowerment programmes in schools that include girls' clubs, guidance and co unselling and ro le mod e programmes.These equi p girls to make info rmed and responsible decisio ns about their lives, which protect t hem against unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sexually t ransmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS. Three of t he te n FAWE chapters-Bur und i, Kenya and Namibia-shared progress in the ir HIV/AIDS prevention mitiatives during FAWE's 5t h

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Gabon to addre ss issues of re productive health and

STI/HIV/AIDS among girls in schools.

Burkina Faso organized

workshops on HIV/AIDS for mem bers of girls' clubs.

General Assembly. Common issues that emerged from the presentations of the three countries indicated that girls are now :

.:. Mo re aware of HIV/AIDS. its dangers and how to protect themselves .:. More assertive. more confident and imbued w ith high levels of self esteem .:. Better informed about adolescent sexuality and reproductive health .:. More skilled in leader ship

and counselling .:. Willing to volunteer for HI V counselling and testing services T here was consensus among all chapters on the crucial role of girls' clubs in raising awareness and educating adolescents

Burundi has interventions in secondary schools whose objectives are to inform and sensitize students on

HIV/AIDS and STDs and to establish Stop AIDS Clubs.To date. there are 3 1 Stop AIDS clubs in the country. with a

total of 270 girls and 90 boys as members. In 2002. the chapter conducted HIV/AIDS sensi tization sessions for 60 girls and I I trainers .T he chapter aims to extend club member-

ship to all 421 secondary schools. to train counsellors for the clubs and to create networks with like-minde d organizations.

Chad, wit h UNICEF sponsorship. sent one of its club mem-

bers to a cwo-day UNIC EF discussion programme on

HIV/AIDS and re late d issues . In

abou t HIV/AIDS and re produc-

May the chapter organized a debate among girls' clubs on prostitution .

tive health and equipping them to take a firm and positive stand regarding their own sexual lives.

Gabon conducted sensitization and tra ining for communities and girl leaders on

HIV/AIDS related issues and trained HIV/AIDS peer counsellors.T he chapter also signed a two -year contract w ith the Association of M idw ives of

Ghana conducted leadership training workshops for Ghana

Junio r C lub me mbers in May and assisted girls' education officers and other agencies to form junior clubs. G hana conducted a survey on schoolgirls' knowledge and needs of life skills and continued to disserninate the findings of research started last year on schoolgirls' sexual maturation.

Kenya maintained contact

with the 32 schools in Thika municipality where peer counselling clubs were set up in 2000. Club activities this year included visits to AI DS orphans in the homes to provide support and encouragement. T he chapter also participated actively in an interna tio nal conference on voluntary H IV

counselling and testi ng (VCT) attende d by over 300 de iegates from Africa and Europe.

The Thika HIV/AIDS Project forme d the basis of the chapter's presentation to this conference. Kenya organized HI V/AIDS awareness session s during a mentoring wo rk shop

for girls on t he EDDI bursar y scheme in May-Ju ne and partieipated in a capacity building works ho p funded by th e

Rockefeller Fo undat io n on the problems of sexual maturation

from various FAWE clubs in th e country. It also .received the

local commun it ies to support

and menstruation for school -

results of a six-month study to

AIDS orphans and prevent dro po ut. FAW E Zimbabwe

girls. Th is was a follow up of an

evaluate th e impact of

organized a fee ding scheme fo r

inter-chapter workshop held in G hana in 200 I. The chapter also participated in a meeting of Kenya's Natio nal D r ug

H IV/AIDS in schools that has

24 1 undernourished children at

po inted to the need for mas-

Chikonohono Pr imary School in the C hinhoyi Mash West

sive campaigns to sensitize teachers and students to cor-

regional chapter.T here is a

Cont rol C ouncil whose aim

rect t he wrong perceptions

sharp increase of such childre n

was to encourage N GOs to include this aspect as an inte-

they have about HIV/AIDS in Togo.

and the unemployment of par-

gral part of their youth educa tion programmes.

Zambia produced and dissem-

Namib.

and leaflets on HIV/AIDS and life skills to all provincial education offices and FAWEZA

inated 2002 calendars, posters held a consultation on

HIV/AIDS policy for the country's education sector in June.As part

of its HIV/AIDS awareness week

provincial chapters .The chapter

activities, the chapter involved clubs in 20 schools in three dis-

also piloted in four schools the

trices

in the production of an

AIDS memorial quilt These clubs also continued HIV/AIDS out-

because of drought, HIV/AIDS ents owing to retrenchment.

T he chapter is also collaborating w ith the C ath ol ic dioc ese to provide food to children in outlying areas of H arare.

use of the dramatized

H IV/AIDS education video. a very popular info rmat io n tool

among pupils .

reach activities to communities

and hosting of guest speakers on

Zirr

the same subject.

pro posals soliciting funds for

bw

developed several

girls' empowerment that were

participated in various wo rkshops on HIV/AID S an d ST D preventio n.

sent to Advance Africa among

n The Agathe Uwilingiyamana Award. which honours individual or com-

other funding agencies and con-

munity innovations in improving

tinued to participate in pro-

girls' education,and the FAWE

grammes of the National A IDS

Award for Med ia Excelle nce,which

Council at regional level. The

recognizes female journalistS who

to organi ze a three-day training

chapter completed an analysis

excel in promoting girls' education.

workshop on HIV/AIDS aware-

of HIV/AIDS statistics t hat

collaborated with USAID

ness, counselling and re late d

yielded information on the

issue s for students and teach -

needs of girls whose education

ers from various educational

has been affected by HIV/AIDS .

institutions.The chapter also

The data show that many are

convened a discussion session

orphans and require assistance

on adolesce nt repro ductive

to remain in school. FAWEZI

health for over 200 members

recommends the start up of income-generating pro jects by

remain to

be valuable strategies for

advocatingfor girls' education.They attract wide media coverage in the countries where they are implemented. In 2002. the Ghana chapter presented the Agathe Award to Mrs.Vida Korang, coordinator of a Ghanaian NGO that helps

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Minister Emmanuel Mudidi frm Rwanda presents the Agathe Uwilinigy;mano Prize to Mrs

Vida Karang, Ghana reso urce poor and marginalized co m mu ni t ies. She won for

innova ting a popul ar advocacy song to promote girl-child edu-

cation-"FaWe Ba Baa Sukuu.' which translates as "Take Your Daught e r to School." A second awa rd w inne r in Ghana was the Nyariga -Done Mothers' Club Girls' Scho ol. a best practice from the Alliance project.

In Et hiop ia t h e w i nner

was the Women 's Assoc iation of Tig r-a i. a loca l NGO with a membership of around SOO.OOO that seeks to empower women in all

aspects o f dev elop me ntpo litical , economic . educa tional and health . The other two countries to implement

t he Agathe Pr ize in 2002 were Bu r kina Faso and Ugand a.

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Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Poverty Bursar ie s for needy girls are a key inte rvention in access and ret ent io n. Bursaries allow girls

t ion and at the same t ime he lp shie ld t he m from child labour. truancy. prostitution. street life. depression and other povertyre lated problems. In 2002 .

FAWE cha pters nurtured the ir col labo rative efforts with development partners as well as the Ministries of Educatio n in order to sustain bursary programmes such as the Ed ucat ion fo r Deve lo pme nt and De mo cracy Initiative (ED DI) US Ambassadors G ir ls' Scholarship Pro gra m me .

Et h iop ia , in its second phase of EDDI, catered for 675 girls in gr ad e 9 dur ing the 2001 /2002 aca de mic year. In the 2002/2003 academi c year. students who join the pr eparat o ry class. t hat is. t hos e who pass grad e 10, will be part o f the scholarsh ip scheme to make thi s inter vention o ngo ing and me an ingful. O ve r and ab ove t his. Ethi op ia orga nize d a fund raising d inner to bol ster this fund. established bursary technical committees in the target schools and inst ructed the members on how to adm inist er the fund .This was to enha nce efficiency in the management of this bursary scheme.T he chapter conducted regu lar visits with target schools and co ordinated a tour of th e schools by Mrs . Patricia

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Bekele , EDDI Congressional Li aison , as well as PACT Et hiopia officials and USAID representatives to evalua te the scholarship programme. T he EDDI su pported schools have rec eived w ide coverage on pu blic television .Th e chapter also organi zed a sensitization and mentoring workshop attended by representatives from the 28 EDDI-AG SP be neficiary schools. don o rs and othe r stake hol de rs to sha re experiences and to be br iefed on the EFA progress , The EDDI sch o larship was lau nched in Kenya in 2002 with a start-up fund of $88.200. Z ambi a secured EDDI schol ars hips for 661 girls and plans t o launch the progr amme and d istribute the bursaries before the end of the year. Rwanda signed a contract w ith Winroc k International for expansion of th e EDDI sch o larshi p that has provided support for an addition al 2SS girls.T he cha pter continued profil ing and moni toring scholarship beneficiaries as part o f its evaluation of the EDDI programme, Other Nat ional Chapters were similarly involved in a wide va r iety of activities associated with b ursaries . Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana , Sierra Leone and

T

he Executive Committee of

the FAWE Ethiopia Chapter

organized a fund raising dinner on 19 January at the H ilton

on the EDDI bursary scheme in May/June. andTogo was appointed

by Peace Corps to coordinate the bursary programme for the network of collaborating agencies dealing with bursaries for girls in the

awareness on the plight of the

itive response . A research sur-

schools.

ties of the FAWE chapter and the impact of bursary schemes

Liberia continued to award

on combating poverty.

scholarships to deserving girls.

Information was widely circulat-

secondary school due to lack of

school fees that began in July is expected to be ready by the e nd o f the year.

Togo continued to support the education of needy firls and in May conducted a screening for new

intake of firls needing support.The

ed. targeting especially UN

Sierra Leone directly sup-

agencies, embassies. international organizations, NGOs, commercial organizations. and prominent entrepreneurs and technocrats. Organizations like

ported 552 beneficiaries in pri-

mary. secondary and technical /vocational institutions.

and, in addition. provided assis-

tance during the year to 2.733 students. of whom 1.558 are girls, through the Rapid

UNDP and the Women's Department in the Office of the

Education Programme. Plan

Prime Minister bought tickets in bulk. Ethiopian airlines donated

the Netherlands supported this

raffle items.The event raised nearly Birr 135.000.

port of girls' education in Bagamoyo and Mwanamakuka

vey of students who fail to join

carried accounts of the activi-

Ethiopia. Plan International,

posal submitted to Sida for sup -

ational Chapter Bursary Programmes

advertisement for the dinner

Norwegian Ch urch Aid. CARE-

girls in primary schools. A pro-

primary schools received a pos-

The Gambia paid out bursaries for 478 girls in 13

girl child in Ethiopia. Media

for secondary school students and monitored bursaries for

country.

Hotel in Addis Ababa.The planningof this event was in itself a major campaign for raising

Tanzania processed bursaries

Sierra Leone and Cordaid of

undertaking.

chapter was nominated a member of the committee to supervise a

scholarship programme launched by a French NGO, La Chaine de I'Espoir. for needy girls.Thirty firls will receive sponsorship for the next ten years (from September 2002) that will include tuition fees. uniforms. books and stationery. medical checkupsand a meala

dar Uganda reviewed bursary ben eficiaries and dropped poor performers served with last warning.

T o go participated in a bursary management training work -

shop organized by the EDDI¡ Peace Corps in Nairobi on 1014 June. Kenya conducted a mentoring workshop for girls

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Transforming Girls through Empowerment Programmes T he del egate s who att ended FAWE 's 5th G e ne ral Assembly were struck by the kind of transforma tion that can take place in girls who participate in well designed . we ll managed and sus tained em powerme nt programmes .

T he 21 girls a t th e Ass embl y (acco m panie d by fo ur bo ys) were not the shy. quiet. often indecisive type th at one frequently finds in typical rural schools in Afr ica .

T hese girls were poised. outs poken. artic ulate a nd asse r tive. ra d iating co nfi. de nce in thei r speech and

the manner in which they carried themselves . T he se were students from FAWE 's Centres of Exce lle nc e in

Kenya, Rwanda,Senegal and Tanzania---rural schools whose package of proven interventions creates an enablingenvironment

conducive for girls ' physical.

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social. emotional and psychological development.

FAW E chapters other than those hosti ng Centres of Exc ellence we re also busy in 200 2 organizing programmes to engage girls actively in building their gender awareness. self. confidence. assertiveness and life skills.The main thrust has been the establishment of girls' clubs , To da t e , over 1,55 8 c lubs have bee n esta blished in

22 National Chapters and the number continues to grow.

Another important activity is guidance and counselling, w hich co ntribu tes t o gir ls' ability to sort out problems and make plans for the future , All four Centres of Exce lle nce have guidance and co unselling desks and many chapters support guidance and counselling activities in their local schools.

2002 marked an increase in dub activities in nearly all chapters. Fo ur countries-C h a d.

Rw and a . T anz ani a a n d U g and a - sha re d w ith delegates at the General Assembly their activ ities in girls ' em powerment program mes . T he re were many similarities in the types of activities undertaken by clubs in these four countries : debates. round table discus sions. drama. guest speakers. films /videos. songs. guidance and co unselling, all fo cusing on to pica l issues s uch as HIV/AIDS. sexual harassment, schoolgirl pregnancy and others.There was consensus that information on HIV/AIDS and adolescent sexuality is insufficient by itself to reduce highrisk behaviour. It must be linked with the deve lopment of skills in interpersonal re lat io nships. critical and creative thinking, decision making. and self-awareness. as well as with the devel opment of the knowledge . attitu des and values

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needed to make sou n d h e a I th - re I a te d decisions . All these are areas being emphasized in the girls' c lu bs.

Other ational Chapter Activities on Girls' Empowerment Burkina Faso coordinate d a national mee ting of all FAWE club s in t he co untry.

Chad worked on restructuring the girls' clubs and held discus sions with the club heads.

Gabon established four cha pter committees for girls.

Guinea organized remedial classes for 1.600 girls preparing for national examina tions in eight prefectures between De ce mbe r 200 I an d May 2002 .Analysis of t he exami nat ion res ults showe d a 70 pe rce nt suc cess rate was re corded . The chapter also partici pat

Members of the FAWE Llber;a

Girls Clubs in action.

ed in a workshop for women literacy in which harmonization of the signs of different languages in a unique African alphabet was undertaken.

Kenya hosted a UN ESCO team visiting FAWE K for con sultation on UNESCO 's pro pose d strengthening of guidance and counselling servicesin

Africa.

Liberia organi zed guidance and counselling training for teache rs in IS schools and contributed to e mpowe rment of girls by providing didactic materi al to th ese schools.Th e chapt e r lau nched ano t her two girls' clubs in Mo ntse rrado County and pro duced a t raining manual fo r the clubs.

Kendeja School, earmarked for a FAWE Ce ntre of Excelle nce. was renova ted and its 285 stu de nts are back in school. The chapte r will continue to improve the school in preparation for upgrading its Status.

Malawi established FAWE clubs in Mzuzu Unive rsity, C hancello r Co llege and HHI primary school. It also established scien ce clubs in St. Mary's and Nyambadwe pr ima. ry schools.

Rwanda was involved in the prepara tio n of a five-day national students' festival held in Dece mbe r. In this regard .

the chapter was busy expanding and enhancing the "speakout" programme in other schools. Field visits were conducted to the proposed schools and club chairs were identified and trained. In addition, the chapter trained members in club management skills and helped raise funds to start off club activities .The chapter also set up counselling desks and men tor systems in 32 secondary schools; already these are enhancing girls' periormance, decreasing repetition and dropo ut, and inst illing confidence .

Senegal held a worksho p with funding from UNICEF to ratify its Clubs of Excellence.

Sierra Leone enhanced the management of the Skil ls Training Centres for pregnant girls and young mothers and continued counselling girls through its various FAWE branches.

Swaziland visited FAW ESWA schoo ls to encourage girls to subscribe as FAWESWA junior members as part of preparations for integration of FEMSA best practices into their school calendars. Other chapter activities included a convention where girls and outstanding women in education received awards and shared experiences

in the struggle for active participation and recognition in education.

Togo's girls' clubs conducted debates on youth and abst inence as some of the ir activities at the end of the year, while in September the chapter made contacts with most of the girls' clubs in Lome to map out activities for the new year.With the support of CA RE Inte rnat ional. the chapter continued its support of remedial classes for girls at a non -formal school.

These girls periormed well in their final examinations, with 85 pe rcent moving on to higher levels.The school orga nized excu rsions to histo ric and cultural sites and an end -of-year drama festival as part of empowerment activities for these girls.

Uganda updated the life skills training manual for girls' clubs and developed indicators, com piled a GEM leaders folder, Set up a GEM secretariat at FAWEU, and organized for sharing of learn ing materials with poor schools.The chapter is running a student volunteer programme to train girls in skills that raise the ir cornpetitiveness in the job market.

Zambia conducted phase two of its training for peer mentors and reproduced the US Peace

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• Co rps Life Skills Manual fo r peer mentors. The chapt e r also organi zed a five-day national girls' camp for 137 tent h-grade girls as part of its school based peer-memoring activities .

Suppo rted by World Bank, t he chapter o rganized a natio nal school essay co mpet itio n in which pupils we re asked to wri te about issues of nat io nal deve lopmen t. Prizes were awar ded to competition winners. developed a handdb book on girls' clubs and conti nued esta blishing girls' clubs in var ious schoo ls in the co unt ry.

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B Uilding the capacity of Nat io nal Ch apte rs-and its own inst itutio nal capability- is one of t he pillars of FAWE 's revised Strategic Direct io n 2002 -2006 .A three-day capacity building wo rkshop for 14 National Chapte rs, held in Nairob i in March, gave the chapter coo rdinators the oppo rtunity to review and assimilate th e Strategic Direct ion and to share experiences of their work thus far.

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they returned home to revise their own 2002 work plans in line with the strategic direction .

These and other chapters continued with various efforts to strengthen their own organizational capacity to implement effect ive programmes for pro moting girls' ed ucation.

Most chap ters held their gen eral assemblies in 2002 as well as executive committee meetings, and strengthened t heir members through a var iety of capacity building programmes.

Chapter-Le 'el Capacity Buildin Burkina Faso t ra ined two of its members in basic accounting in April, while 33 tea che rs participated in a training course in gender and education in May. urundi t rained its members on collection and use of data and on gen der concepts and develo pmen t. Communicatio n was enhanced with the installatio n of telephone, fax and email services. In May the chapter organized a major recru itment campaign for new members . eroon held its general assemb ly in April during which new executive members were e lected.The cha pter organized fo r 33 of its mem bers to par ticipate in a workshop on HIV/AIDS on 30-3 I May.

rhad recruited a new coordinator, who has been meeting with t he chapter's exe cutive committee every last Thursday of the month to review and plan for chapter activities .This forum has greatly e nhanced the efficiency and smooth ness of operations of the chapt e r.

Ethiopia held its general assembly in late August and resolved to create subchapter's in different regio ns and to intensify membership recruitment. As indicate d earlier, the cha pter organized a successful fund raising dinne r t hat brought in a tota l of Birr 134,928 for t he chapte r's bursary fund .

Ghana organized capacity building for you ng graduate professionals and focal district liaison officers of FAW E G hana under th e mentor-ship of technical experts.Additional staff were hired to strengthe n the impleme ntation of chapter programmes.

Kenya held its executive cornmittee meetings and explored the issue of regist ratio n of FAWE K as an NGO rather than as an Association, which is its current status. In the meeting,some members of the chapter execu tive co mmittee volunteered thei r time to coordinate some FAWE K activit ies until a time when personnel

are recrui ted . Chapter officials attended three short courses organized by C ARE¡ Kenya for its partners.Thes e were fund raising and resource mobi lizat ion strategies, financial management. and gender mainst reaming.The chapter kept up its activities of w riting and submitting project proposals to various donors. and as noted earlier launche d branches in Nyanza Province.

Liberia launched FAWE branches in Grand Bassa.

Grand Gedeh and Maryland County in its efforts to broaden girls' education activities throughout the country. The chapter plans to continue launch ing FAWE branches until all 15 cou nties are covered.

Malawi trained seve n cha pter me mbers who are primary school teac hers and a radio presente r in child-cent red ge nder respon sive teaching and learning processes and in hea lth . hygiene and nutrition.

Two other members were trained as trainers for mo ther's groups and the C o nvention o n th e Rights of the Ch ild (C RC) an d the Con ventio n on th e Eliminat io n o f All Fo rms of Discr iminat io n against Women (C EDAW).

Namibia held two exe cutive co mmit te e meetings, in Ap ril and June .Th e chap ter recruit-

ed a new coordinator who was immed iately t rained in comp uter operations.An office assistant was also hired .

To strengthen t he chapter's mec hanism for netwo rking. meetings were held with VSO and Brit ish Council.

Rwanda's chapter coordinator recei ved on-the-job training in project management. while the chapter secretariat participated in a USAID-orga nized co urse on gender tra ining. informat ion techno logy. and advocacy and po licy analysis.The chapter held its general assembly and executive committee meetings, carried out audits of finances and assets. and maintained close communication with the Ministr y of Educat io n and the FAWE regional office.

Sierra Leone o rganized a t raining workshop on finance and funding for its branch presidents and liaison officers and heads of units.The chapter held its fourth general assembly.¡ Swaziland co ntin ued to st re ngthen its orga nizatio nal capacity by increasing FAWE membership through sustained feedbac k to members regarding chapter activities and increased involvement of the me mbe rs in its activities and int rod uce d mem bers hip fee

and membe rship cards.The administrator/accountant attended a one-week co urse on we b design sponsored by One World Africa and t he Coordinating Assembly of Non Governmental Organ izations (C ANGO) .The chapter also pr inted FAWESWAT-shirts for sale and encouraged members to buy them and wear t he m during fund raising campaigns to advertise the organ ization.

Tanzania initiated training for its membe rs in po licy analysis. advocac y and sensitization . programme design. resource mobi lization . and negotiation skills.These programmes are planned to continue well into 2003 . Meetings were held in the year to discuss FAWE's new strategic direction. the stream lining of the chapter's wo rk programme and recruitment of staff.The national coordinator, t he accountant and the Centre of Excellence coordinator received on -thejob tra ining in computer skills prov ided by three students from the University of Dar es Salaam o n o ne-week attachment to the chapte r.A member database was develop ed.

Uganda prov ided techn ical sup port to head teachers of secondary schools in C entral Regio n to mainstrea m gend er into all their school pro-

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grammes and activities .The chapter also trained five girls

ed a new memorandum of

rnents from four donors to

understanding with the

support the 2002-2004 work

in various FAWEU projects.

Ministry of Educatio n and developed a grant proposal to

programme.

Zambia formulated its work

Winrock International for

Zimbabwe held a meeting of

programme and budget for

phase II of EDDI-AGSP. The

its new Executive C ommitt ee

2002-2003, revised its 20022004 work programme, draft-

chapter also rece ived govern ment basket funding commit-

on 12April.

s at 01 January 2002 the operating fund balance from FY 200 I was US$3.215,440.

By 3 I December 2002. a tota l of US$3.3S3.614 had been raised in suppo rt of the

grant funds. as has been the trend. were received by the 4th quarter of the year.

planned activities. M o st of the

exercise to be done in early

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200 3 will detail all t he financial transactions for the year 2002.

The total expend iture for

t he period 0 I January to 3 I December 2002 stood at US$3.0 13,780.The Audit

Funding Sources I I

Governments and government ag encies

3,223,562

Foundations and corporations

90,000

Other sources

40,052

Subtotal

3,353,6 J 4

Opening balance brought forward from FY 2001 FAWE: (a) FAWE fixed asset-office project (b) FAWE funds 2,674,097 Opening balance brought forward from FY200 J FEMSA

Total operating funds NIB- Totol funds received in the 4th Quorter

506,535

6.534.246 1,776,602

541,343

E penditr.-e Th e total expenditure as at 31 October 2002 was incurred in the implementation of the strategic o bjectives as shown in t he table below:

Policy and data analysis

200,133

Advocacy

148,110

Empowerment of girls

589,947

Interventions

206,556

Partnerships

204,990

Strengthening organizational capacity: Support to the National Chapters Staff costs Office operational costs FAWE governance structure- GA/TC/EC meeting

541,215 243,920 294,523 419,136

Programe coordination, monitoring and eva lua t io n

165,250

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Rockefeller Foundation

IRISHAIO

Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

FINIDA International Development Research Centre ( IO RC) Advance Africa-USAIO

SIOA UNESCO The World Bank OFIO

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s exci ting an d fulfi lling as t he year was, it was not without chal lenges. some quite daunting.

T hey can be grou ped generally into four-ens uring th e capacity of th e N ation al C hap ters. generating financial Stability. fos tering insti tu tional sustainability and nurturing the commitment o f FAWE mem bers. In

all these area s FAWE recog nizes the challenges as opportunities t o build and improve

its pe rfo rm ance so as t o con t inu e to advance in t he quest for Ed ucat io n Fo r All.

National Chapter Capacity The National C hapte rs are the dr iving force beh ind FAWE's at tempt to b ring abo ut po sitive change in girls' education. It is

at the level of the National Chapters that amorphous pollcy rhetoric gets tra nslated into act ion on the groun d. It is t hus

absolutely critical th at the

chapters operate as professional organizations. fully com-

pete nt to develop t he pro grammes and implement the interventions that will move their countries towards achievement o f EFA. Much progress has been made. and continues to be made. as this report testifies. in strengthening t he cha pters.

Nevertheless. the most daunt-

ing challenge facing FAWE re mains th at o f bu ilding strong. functioning National Chapters-chapters that are skilled in managing resources efficiently and product ive ly and are able to mo bilize funds fo r their various programmes.

Build ing the capacity of Natio nal C hapte rs in specific areas o f pr ogr am me and financial management will the refo re continue [0 be a major preoccupation.

Institutional Sustainability Bes ide s t he National C hapt e rs th emse lves. it is neces sar y to consider the po tential longev ity of the activities they undertake. Many of the chapters are involved in innovative strategies an d activities. which produce impressive but often short-term gains in enrolment. retention or performa nce . By their natu re. such innovations usually have a limited lifespan and therefore represent only temporary solu tions to deep pro blems that need a more permanent strategy. Clearly. such efforts will not have a strong impact in moving African education to wards EFA.The challenge is to create and put in place mechanisms to ensure that important gains are not lost.A good example is t he provision of bursaries by any

given funding agency; though th e su pport is cr itical and mu ch apprecia te d today. it m not be available tomorrow c nex t year. G irls who start school w ith such suppo rt rn: no t be able to continue if t h support is withdrawn.

FAWE and its National C hapt ers clearly need to develop the me as ures and partnerships necessary for ensuring that a child sponso for only one year. especially th e beginning o f seco ndary school. w ill have the means 1 continue when do no r funds are no longer available .

Financial Stabilit Over the years. FAWE has forged and strengthened pre grammatic partnershi ps at tI region al and internatio nal Ie e ls and now counts on a co mitred group of donors for continued financial support, The challenge is to expand I base to include new partner ships for the ever-increasing financial demands that are p of the overall EFA planning process-and integral to thl implementatio n o f Edu catior For All in a continent wherE the majority of the populati is under age 20. Such financ pressure is beyond the capa of many African countries. v are going through deep eco nomic crises that place edu. tion systems under even greater stress.

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In the face of limited government resources and donor resources that cannot expand fast eno ugh to meet the needs, FAWE' s approach to financial sustal nability is twofold: to gen erate resources from nondonor sources and to manage very wisely those resources it has in hand.The const ruction of FAWE Ho use , and especially t he innovative approa ch take n to it s financing. is an example of the former. a major response t o the chronic challenge of financial sustainability.

Advo cacy through participat io n in international meetings and the use of o th er advo cacy to ols like new slette rs, exhib-

irions. films/videos and medi a coverage continue to be used strategically in an effort to bri ng new donor partners on board . In all cases. the effor ts toward financial sustainability must of necessity extend all the way to the National Chapter level.

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t FAWE faces the challenge of ensuring that its members remain committed to and active in the cause of girls' educa tion. both in their professional lives and as individuals in the ir day-t o-day activities.

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FAWE counts on its members to keep the advocacy for girls' education alive by raising awareness and mobi lizing support.T he interest o f male Minist e rs of Educat io n who have been enlisted as FAWE members. as well as Heads of State who have participated in FAWE activities. must be nurtured and reinvigorated through FAWE's active parti cipat ion in EFA for ums, such as the New Par tn e rship for Africa's Deve lo pme nt (N EPAD) and the newly launched Fo r um for African Parliame ntarians in Educat io n (FAPED).

W E re cogni zes that the EFA national action plans are but a first

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step towa rds th e attainment of Ed ucatio n Fo r All.We are

cr it ically aware t hat such plans will o nly be useful where there is nationa l po litical will to implement the bo ld re forms spel t out therein: adequate and efficient use of public financing of educ ation, abolition of school fees for primary education. promotion of policy dialogue. implementation of specific programmes

to cate r for disadvantage d grou ps-girls. women, vulne rab le children, the ru ra l po o r.

Imp roved learni ng environments. including co mmi t ment

to skills upgrading fo r teach ers and provision of dece nt worki ng cond itions. as well as provision of adequate teaching and learning resources. are among the many other measures that are needed.

Focusing on Quality and Capability T hese provisions must be

implemented if we are to achieve the Dakar goa l of e limina ting ge nder disp ar ities in primary and secondary education by 200 5. Eve n then. achievement of this goal alone

will not necessarily ensure that ch ildren receive the qua l. icy inst ru ct io n that wi ll equ ip

them to meet the challenges of today's fast-paced. technol ogy -driven world. It is on this

premise tha t we have Vigor. ously pursued the issue of quality learning and teaching as demonstrated in FAW E's Centres of Exce lle nce , presently in Kenya. Rwanda.

Senegal and Tanzan ia. which we are now in the process of replicating.

In 2002, FAWE's concen(rat io n o n the development of EFA national acti o n plans meant facilitating the invo lve men t of National C hapt er s in the process of mainstreaming gender into t he se and othe r deve lo pme nt plans thro ugh a series of consulta tio ns and capacity building programmes.

The process is beginning to bear significant fruit . as these pages indicate.As more and more countries take the step of formul at ing gender re spo nsive plans. the big issue becomes twofold: to accelerate the progress and to ensure that gender concerns

go beyond the policy stage to be taken on board in the implementa tion of the EFA plans.

In 2003. therefore. FAWE will intensify the effort to build the capacity of its National Chapters by training cadres of National Chapter mem bers in how to make

their chapters more effect ive. to engage with policy makers and communities more productively, how to iden tify and implement strategies for improvi ng access. rete ntio n and perfo rmance.T he Centres of Exece lle nce will provide fertile ground for prac tical training. In addition financial grants as well as administrative. tech nical and mon itoring support will cont inue to be extended to National Chapters to enable them to move forward effectively in consolidating and implementing the EFA plans and po licies. l'~

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A second thrust of FAWE' s plans for the coming year co mprise s intensifying and e xpanding th e demonstration as pect s of FAWE 's progra mmes that illustrate how th e holistic model of girls' e ducatio n can be set up and managed. This it will do by replicat ing Centres of Excellence in several other co unt rie s beyond the fou r whe re the Centres already ex ist. FAWE will provide technical assistance to th e respective Nat ional Chapters as they restructure the mselves rea diness to engage the

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the Minist ries of Educatio n in the establishment of Centres of Excelle nce in the ir countries.

Simultaneously. FAWE will intensify its advocacy and policy dialogue with Minist ries of Educat io n to convince them to adopt and ada pt the centre's model to other primary and secondary schools in their countries.

A third thrust of FAWE 's activines in the new year will be to continue to forge and strengthen programmatic partnerships at the regional and international levels through participation in international forums on girls' education. FAWE will be act ively involved with follow-up of th e recommen datio ns of th e FAPED and MINEDA FVIII conferences. spe cifically focus-

Participants at the FAPED and M INEDAF VIII conferences: INSET: Mme Alice Tiendrebeogo. Head of the FAWE Delegation.

ing on gende r aspects. lnder EFA goals will not be achiev without the full par'ticipatio all partners including goven men ts, communities. donor partners and other agencie : and civil society. In all t his.

FAW E int ends to re tain its strategic role in pro mot ing girls' education in Africa.

¡" Prof Boul i Ali Diallo

C hair. Universite Abdou Moumouni de Ni amey. Niger

Mme Alice Tiendrebeogo

Vice Chair; Presidenre. Associarion Femmes. Educatrices et

Develo ppement (AFED) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Dr Fay Chung

Ho n. Secretary. Director UN ESCO IICBA,Addis Ababa. Ethiopia

Prof Esther Mwaikambo

Hen Treasurer ;Vice Chancellor. The Hubert Memorial Un iversity

Han Clara Bohitile

Me mber. Deputy Minister of Basic Education and Culture. Windhoek.

(HKMU), Dar es Salaam. Tanzania

Nam ibia Hon A- T N'Dong Jatta

Member; Secretary of State for Educatio n. Department of State for Education. Banjul. Gambia

Ms Beatrice Mukabaranga

Member;Vice Rector. Kigali Institute of Educat io n, Ministry of Educat ior

Kigali, Rwanda Hon Betty Aketch

Member; M inister for Higher Education, M inist ry of Educat ion and

Sports, Kampala, Uganda Dr Eddah Gachukia Hon Dr Evelyn Kandakai

Member; Education Consultant. Nairobi. Kenya Member; Minister of Educat io n. Liberian National C o mm issio n for

UN ESCO. Monrovia. Liberia Dr J. Thuli Nhlengetfwa

Member. National Coordinator of Tuner Fo undatio ns Project on

HIV/AIDS. UN Inter Agencies, UN DP, Mbambane, Swaziland Prof Penina Mlama

Executive D irecto r, FAWE. Kenya

Founding Members Han Alice Ttendrebeogo

Pres idente, Asso ciatio n Femm es, Educatri ces et D eveloppement (A FED Ou agadougou, Burkina Faso

Dr Fay Chung

Directo r, UNESCO IICBA,Add is Ababa, Ethiopia

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¡, Han Paulette Missambo

M inist r e d' Etat Chargee de I'Educat io n Na tionale et de la C onditio n Feminine, Libreville. Gabon

Han S. d e C omarmond

M inister of Tourism and C ivil Av iation, Mahe. Seychell es

H o n Vida Yeboah

Coordinator. FAWE Ghana Chapter, Accra . Ghana

Other Full Members "" Mrs Barbara Chilangwa

Permane nt Secretary. Ministry o f Edu catio n. Lusaka. Z ambia

Prof Dorothy Nj euma

Vice Chancellor. Univers ity of Buea. South West Province. Buea, C am eroon

Prof Elizabeth Mumba

De puty Vice Chancellor. University of Z am bia. Lusaka. Zamb ia

Mme F. Espirito Santo

Vice Minist ra da Educacao para Cultura, Luanda. A n go la

Han Gennet Zewide

M inist er of Educat io n. A ddis Ababa, Ethiopia

Prof Leah Marangu

Vi ce Chance ll o r,Africa Nazarene Unive rsity, Nairo bi, Kenya

Prof Lydi a Makhubu

Vi ce Chancellor, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland

Mrs Macsuzy Mondon

Pe rmane nt Secretary. Minist ry of Educatio n and Youth .Technical & Furt he r Educat io n Divisio n. Repu blic of S eychelles

Mrs Mwatumu Malale

Pe rmane nt Secretary, Minist ry of Educat io n and Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mme M. Cheikh Mohaya

Secretaire Gen erate du Gou ve rnement, Ex Minist re de l'Educat io n N atlonale , Mo ro ni. Re pub lique Fed er-ale Islamique des Comores

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Ensino Ge ra, Minist e r io da Educacao e

Han Namirembe Bitamazire Ministe r of State fo r Primary Educat io n, Kampala, Uganda Mrs NaomyWangai

Directo r of Educat io n, Minist ry of Educat io n, Nairobi, Kenya

Ms Sebtuu Nassar

Commissione r of Educatio n. Departme nt of Educat ion, Vuga. Zanzibar

Mme.Awa Geuye Kebe

Minist e r for Early Childhood. Dakar. Senegal

Han L. M. R.Arthur Brito

Ministe r fo r Highe r Educat ion. Scie nce and Techno logy. Maputo Mozambique

Dr Eddah G achukia

Executive Committee Member and Former FAWE Executive D irector ; Education Consultant. Riara Road. N airobi, Keny a

Mme E. Gnanvo nee Yededji

Professeur-Assistant de D roit Prive.U niversite N ationale du Benin (FASJEP/ENAj, M.ait re-Assistant du CAMES. Co ton o u, Benin

Dr J. Thuli Nhlengetfwa

Executive Committee Member and N ational Coordinator of Tuner

Fo undatio ns Pro ject on HIV/AIDS, UN Inter,Agencies, UN DP, Mbambane. Sw a zi land Mme M ari e Jose Big end ako

Universite du Burundi. Bujumbura. Burundi

Dr M . Damalisy Nowa-Phiri

Regional Education O ffice. Blantyre. M al aw i

Ms Ottilie Grete Abrahams

Ministry of Basic Education and Culture. Windhoek. Namibia

Dr R.Akua Acheampong

Accra. Ghan a

Dr Sh eila P..Wam ah iu

Executive D irector.W omen Education Researchers. Na irobi. Kenya

Mme V.Andrianarison

Antananarivo, M ad agascar

Hon A icha Bah Diallo

Directo r, Divisio n of Basic Education. UN ESCO, Paris . France

SEM Aminata Tall

Presidente . FAW E Senegal. Dakar. Senegal

Hon Christiana Thorpe

Founding C hair, FAWE Sierra Leone. Freetown. Sierra Leon e

Hon C .Amoako-Nuama

Minister for Lands and Fo rest ry. Ghana

Ms E. Margueritte Nerine

Antananarivo, Madagascar

H o n Esi Su t h e r la nd-Ad dy

Research Fellow. University of Ghana.Accra. Ghana

SEM F. Camara Diallo

Presidente.AMASEF/FAW E. Bamako. Mali

HE Graca Ma ch e l

President of the Natio nal Co mmission of UN ESCO. Maputo M o za m bique

Prof Jadesola A ka nd e

Chair. FAWE Nigeria. Nigeria

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D r M amphel a Ramph el e

Vice President. The World Bank. vvashington, DC, USA

Hon M. Cl erke-Kwesi e

Former Deputy Minister of Education. Ghan a

Prof Neo M athabe

Acting Vice chancelior and Principal.Technikon SA. South Afric a

Han Patience Ad ow

Ko fo r idua, Ghan a

Chief ( Mrs) V. I.Anisulowo

Former Ministe r of State for Ed ucat io n. N ige ria

Associate Members M~e

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Han A m anya M ushe ga

Former Minister of Education. Uganda

Han A. Parsuramen

Director UN ESCO-BREDA Regional Office. Dakar. Sen egal

Hon D r E. K. M ak ubu ya

Minister of Education and Sports. Kampala. Uganda

SEM Fidele Kentega

Ministere de l'Enseigneme nt de Base et de l'Alphabetisation. Bujumbura.

Burundi Hon Henry Kosgey

Minister of Education. Nairobi. Kenya

Hon Joseph Mungai

Minister of Educati on , Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Hon S. Kalonzo Musyoka

Minister. Ministry of Tourism and Info rmation. Na irobi, Kenya

Prof. Karega Mutahi

Former Perma ne nt Sec retary. Ministry of Research and Technology.

Nairobi. Keny a

Hon. Mamadou N doye

ADEA Executive Secretary. Paris, Franc e

S E M Moustapha Dicko

Ministre de l'educatio n Natlonale, Bamako. Mali

Hon Prof M . Sourang

Ministre de I'Educat ion. Repubiique du Senegal. Dakar. Sen egal

Prof. Romain M unenzi

Ministe r of Educat io n, Minist ry fo r Education, Kigali, Rwanda

SEM Emmanuel Mudidi

Secreta r y of State for Higher Education. Kigali. Rwand a

Hon N ahas Angul a

Ministe r o f Higher Education,Windhoek. Namibia

Hon Mohammed Bilal

Fo rme r C hief Minister. The Go ve rn me nt of Zanzibar

Associate Members M r Kar ega Mutah i

""," Fo r me r Per manent Secretary. Minist r y of Re search and Tec hnology.

Nairobi. Kenya Ho n Mamadou Ndoye

ADEA Executive Secretary.The World Bank.Wa shington. DC . USA

SEM La m ine Traore

Ministre de I'Education Narionale . Bamako. Mali

H o n P rof M. So u r a ng

Ministre de l'Educatio n, Republ ique d u Senegal. Dakar, Sen e gal

Pr of Roma in Mu ne nz i

Minister of Educatio n. Ministry for Educat io n, Kigali. Rwanda

SEM Em m a nu el Mud idi

Secretary of State for Higher Educatio n. Kigali. Rw and a

H a n John Mu t o rwa

Minister of Basic Educatio n. Sports and Culture,Windhoek, N am ib ia

H o n Nah a s A ngul a

Minister of Higher Educatio n.Windhoek. Nam ib ia

S EM Matheu Ou ed ra go

Mini st er of Basic Educat io n and Literacy. Ouagado ugo u. Bur kina Faso

Mm e A lice T ie ndre be o go

Preslde nte . Association Femmes. Educatrices et Deve lo ppeme nt (AFED) Ouagadougou. Burkina faso

Prof A lm a z Eshete

Programme Coordin ator. International Institute for Capacity Building in

Africa. Addis Ababa. Ethiopia Prof C . O d o ra Hoppers

Human School of Researc h. Preto ria. South Africa

Prof Eliza be t h A n na n-Yao

Professeur. Institute d'Ethno-Socio logie (IES).Universite de Cocody.

Abidjan. Cote d 'l vo ire

Dr John Nkinyangi

C hief. Unit fo r Co o rdinat io n and Evaluation. Secto r for Social and Hu man Scie nce s. U N ESC O. Paris. Franc e

D r Rut h Te e r-To m a se lli

Acting Directo r. G raduate Programme in Cultu ral and Media Studies.

University of Natal. Durban. So ut h A frica

Mrs T isa C hifu ny ise

Programme Manage r Educat io n. Save the C hildre n UK. Harare .

Z imbabwe Dr Ull a Kann

Region al Educatio n Consulta nt. Stda. Windhoek. Nam ibia

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FAWE ETHIOPIA Ms Yelfign Worku, Chair Women Educationalist Association (FAWE Et hio pia C hapter) Tel: (25 1) I 56 1494. Bole Road, Mega Ho use 3rd Floo r. Room No , 316 , PO Box 20882 Code 1000 Addis Ababa. Ethiopia, Fax No , (251) 1-5047 16/505233 MoE Fax: (251) I 550877.Tel No , (25 1)1-5047 16 or MO E I I 1639/552922 Email:faw e.ethiopia@ t elecom.net.et

FAWE GHANA Mrs Theodora Daaku, Chair Hon Vida Yeboah , Coordinator

FAWE Ghana Chapter Behind M edica C linic, Opposite Neoplan Assembly Plant

Achimota-Accra . PO Box C 1217. Cantonments, Accr a 2. Ghana Fax No , (233) 2 1-406682. E-mail: fawegh@AfricaO nline,Com .gh.Tel No . (233) 21-406853 Web: htt p://www.ghana.edu.gh

FAWE KENYA Mrs Elaine Mukuru, Chair

Mrs Shiphrah Gichaga , Coordinator FAWE Kenya Chapter Kenya Institute of Education

PO Box 52597 , Nairobi , Kenya Fax No. 3750083, Tel: 3749900 -9, Ext. 337, Direct: 3747969 .TeI/Fax: 750083, Email: fawek@iconnect.co.ke

FAWE LIBERIA Mrs ComfortBedell.Marshall , Chair M s Evelyn Barry, Coordinator

FAWE Liberia Chapter Ministry of Educat io n, 4th Floor. UN ESCO PIU, PO Box 9012 . Monrovia. Liberia Fax No . (231) 2264 16/227555,Tel No. (231) 227555/226216/406. Email: liberiafawe@yahoo.com

FAWEMALAWI Dr Chrissie Mwiyeriwa, Chair Mrs Margaret Mkwapatira Fabiano, Coordinator

Fax: 265 77243 i. Tel: 265 77 1550/774869. Mobile: 826832 FAWE Malawi Chapter (FAWEMA) C/o The Regional Educat io n Office. Private Bag 386, Blantyre 3. Malawi Fax No. (265) 672215, Tel No . (265) 6723 12 or Sr Dambo - 830241 , Email: fawema @sdnp.org.mw

FAWE MOZAMBIQUE HE G r ac a Machel, Chair Ms Lidia Meque, Coordinator

FAWE Moz ambique C hapt er c/o Dr. Marta Luis Cu mbi, C oo rde nado ra de Programas Fundacao para 0. Dese nvo lvime nt o da Comunidade,Av. Eduardo Mondlane I 160m I 1703 Andar. Maputo. Moz ambique. Mobile: 2581 082324552. Fax No . (258) 1-303975 Tel No. (258) 1-4304 30/I .TeIiFax: 303975. E-mail: fawemo@teledata.mz

FAWE NAMIBIA Hon Clara Bohitile, Chair Ms Ottilie Lamberth, Coordinator FAWE Nam ibia Chapte r D eputy Minister of Basic Educat ion & Culture. Min istry of Basic Education & Culture

Private Bag 131 86. Windho ek. Nami bia. Mobile: 08 12624574. Fax No . (264) 61 224277 Email: fawe na@mec.gov.na.Tel No . (264 ) 61 2933342/67 .29331 I I C/ o hgaris es @ mec.gov.na. Hanna - 2 11893-5

FAWE NIGERIA Prof. Jadesola Akande, Chair FAWE Nige ria Chapter Tel: (234) I 545 6243.8A Ol uko le Close. off Ajao Road. Surule re PO Box 167 Sabo 'raba . Lagos. Nigeria. Fax No . (234 ) 1-5456243. Te l No . (234) 1-5456243 Email: w ldcn@infoweb.abs .net

FAWE SEYCHELLES Ms Janick Bru, Chair Ms Annicka Bru, Coordinator

FAWE Seychelle s Chapter Fax: 248 241725 Seychelles Asso ciat io n of Women Professionals (SAWO P) PO Box 737.Victoria. Mahe. Republic of Seychelles. Fax No. (248) 24 1725. Te l No. (248) 225956 Email: sawo p@seyche lles.s c, www.seychelles.sc

FAWE RWANDA Ms Beatrice Mukabaranga, Chair

Dr Kathy Kantengwa, Coordinator FAWE Rwanda Chapte r Mob ile: 250 08 30151 7. Email: b_mukabaranga@ yaho o.com Minist ry of Educat io n Building. I st Flo o r. Room 10I- I03 PO Box 6703. Kigali. Rwanda .Te l/Fax 250-87724/82162.Anne: 82514 fawerwa@rwandal .com. Tel/Fax 250-87724/82162/827 46. Email: fawerwa@rwandatel l.rwanda l.com

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Ms Vuyisa T anga , Chair Ms Nomnikelo Gqwabe, Coordinato r FAW E South Africa Chapt er Room 718 Education Building, Middle Campus, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 770 I, Cape Town, South Africa ,Tel/Fax No. (27) 2 1-6852142 , Tel. No. (27) 21-6503254/6502767/6865815, E-mail: fawesa@education.uct.a c.za

fAWE SWAZILA D Dr Nomcebo Simelane, Chair Ms Stella Nkosi, Coordinator FAWE Swaziland Chapter Tel: 26851 8401 I, Mob ile:268606 1996, Email: nom@uniswacc.uniswa.sz PO Box 276, Manzini, Swaziland, Fax: 268-5 1-85276/2,Tel: O ffi ce: 268 5 1 53768 Email: faweswa@africaon line.co.sz

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Prof. Verd iana Masan ja, Chair Ms Jacqueline Mtengule, Acting Coord inator FAW ETanzania Chapte r Mobile: 007 74 1 333020, Fax: 007 222 4 100 29, Kijitonyama area (aroun d Makumb usho) PO Box 63319, Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, Email: aidda2000@yahoo.com Fax No. (255) 22 2760 170, FAWETZ@hotmail.com Tel: (255) 22 2761737, Email: tacosode@ africaonline.co.tz

WE G MBIA Hon Anne Ndong-Jatta, Chair Mrs Ramatuli e Secka, Coordinator FAWE Gambia C hapter FAWEGAM Secretariat. Greater Banjul at 58 Garb a jahumpa Road, Bakau, New Town, The Gamb ia Fax No. (220) 495036/397498,Tel. Nos. (220) 495037, Email: kenfem_njie@yahoo.co m fawegam@ hocmail.co m

National Chapters. Locations and Contacts

FAWEUGA DA Hon Ruth Kavuma, Chair M s Florenc e Kanyik e, Coordinator

FAWE Uganda Chapter Email: sses e is@ ho tma il.co m. Mobile: 00677479045. Plot 38. Lumumba Ave nue. Nakasero PO Box 241 17, Kampala. Uganda Mobile: 006 77 487299. Fax No . 006 4 1 530412/541999.Tel No. 006 41 258725/236863 E-mail: faweu@ infoc o m.co.ug

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Ms Barbara Chilangwa, Chai r Mrs Daphne Chimuka, Coordinat or

FAWE Zambia C hapter 3rd Floo r, Impala Ho use. Chachacha Road. PO Box 37695. Lusaka. Zam bia Fax No . (260) 1-2541 39/ 232049.Att: Barbara 253502. daphnechimuka@hotmail.com Tel No s. (260) I Daphne 220752 /229693/234681 - Barbara 25129 1 250 162 /250855 E-mail: faw ezam@za mn et.zm

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Ms Sebtuu Nassar, Chairpe rso n FAWE Za nzibar C hapte r Te l/Fax: 00724 2239658 . C/o Ministry of Educat io n. Department of Educatio n PO 80x 573. Zanzi bar.Tel No. 007242230266/239658 Email: edu@zanzinet. com Fax No . 007 242 232260/230344

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Mrs Jan e [u r u , Cha ir Ms Salome Nyoni, Coordinator FAW E Zimbabwe Ch apte r Belvedre Technical Teache rs' College. I Harvard Road. Belvedere. Harare PO Box MPI058. Mount Pleasant. Harare. Zimbabwe Fax No . (26 3) 4 74 I773 .Treasurer's telefax :(263) 4 778171 Tel No . (263) 4-741773 Email: fawez@africaonline .co.zw

F WE SIERRA LEO ' E Ms Edith Kpendema, Chair Ms Josephin e Nicol, C o o rd ina t o r FAWE Sierra Leone Chapter PMB 2738 3a Fo rt Street. Free to wn. Sierra Leone. Fax No. (232) 22-227763. Fax bureau 224439. Tel No .

(232) 22 227076/225844 Email: fawe@sie rratel.sl. fawesl@sierratel.sl: Email: jose lla2002@yahoo.co m

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FAWE BENIN Mm e Elisabeth Gnanvo, Presidente Mme Cossi Reine, Co ordinator FAWE Benin Chapter Association des femme s de l'education du Benin (A5FEB), INE-Gbegamey, 06 BP1408,Akpapba Coton ou, Ben in, Fax No . 229 - 350632/42 Tel No. (229)-330873 /3 10566/321995 Email: Courconstitu@planben.intnet.bjOR eligy@syfed .bj.refer.org

FAWE BURKINA FASO SE Alice T iendrebeogo , Pr esident e Mme M arguerit e C o ulidiaty , C oo rd inat rice

FAW E Burkina Faso Chapter Mobile: 226 208026 ,Association Femmes, Educatri ces et Developpe rnent (AFED) BP 58 1Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ,Tel/Fax No. (226) 360979/366268 Tel/Fax No. (226) 366268 MOE (226) 360979/300282, Email: afed@cenatrin.bf

FAWE BURUNDI Mme M arie Bwimana, Presidente M m e Angele Ndihokubwayo , C oor dinatrice

FAWE Burundi Chap ter Chef de Cab inet, Ministere de l'Education , de I'Enseignement de Base et de l'Alphabetisat ion des Adultes BP 1990, Bujumbur a, Burundi , Fax No. (257) 244634 Tel·No. (257) 244635, Email: bwimarie@ya hoo.fr, Email: fawe-burundi @u san-bu .net

FAWE CAMEROON Mme Rose Yongue, Preside n te

FAWE Cameroo n C hapte r, (FAW EC AM) Immeuble de Maitre Nyaabia, Rue No . 1068 Nlo ngkak, BP 7109,Yaoun de , Came roon Fax No . (237)- 2211206/2221873, Emai l: rfyongue@yahoo .fr Tel No. (237) 22 J J206/2981439, Email: fawecam_2002 @ yahoo.fr

FAWE COMOROS SE Moi naecha C heik h Yahaya, P r esid e n t e M m e M oinafatim a D jalim, C oor dinatrice FAWE Comoros (FAW ECO M) Immeuble l'Ifere de Ngazidja, BP 73, Moroni, Comores, Com o ros, Fax No. (269) 735244,Tel: (269) 735244 , adarkaoui@hotma il.com faweco m@snpt.km

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Mme Odette Naibert ldayarn, Presidente FAWE Tchad Chapter Off: 235 519659, Mob ile: 235 84 10149, BP 1120, Quartier Moursa l, carre I I Po rte 119 (derriere la Po ste de Moursal), N'djamena,Tchad Fax No. (235) 517465, 235 519659 Email: foret @intnet.td ofnekar_vick@ hotm ail.co m

~I Mme Djouka Angeline, Presidente Mme Cecile Emilie Soma Brou, Coordinatrice

FAWE Cote d' ivoire C hapter 17 BP 55 I,Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire TeI/Fax:(225) 2 19906,Te1/Fax:225 44 190 I,Tel/Fax No. (225) 219906 E-mail: angelinedjouka@yahoo.com

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Mme Philomene A , Obiang, Presidente Mme Georgette Ambourouet, Coordinatrice FAWE Gabon Chapt er Associat ion des Femmes Educatrices du Gabo n (AFEG) BP 2256, LIBREVILLE, Gabon Fax No. (24 1) 775358,Tel No. (24 1) 74592 61772753

srDr Jeanne Razafiangy Dina, Presidente Ms Virginie Razafindravola, Coord inatrice FAWE Madagascar Chapt er Pres idents et Directeur de Cabinet du Gou vernerat, Province Autonome de Toliara Lot 185, Cite Ambo hipo,A ntananari vo,Tel: 26 120 9441595 Mobile: 26 1 32 02564 14, Madagascar, BP 652, Universite de Mahajanga Fax: 261 20 62 23312, Fax No. (26 1) 20 2223897,Tel No. (261) 20 222 1848 Mobile: 261 32 0256414, E-mail: Cdrom @ dts. mg.

FAWE MALI Mme FatoumataCamara Diallo, Presidente Mme Maiga Kad iatou Baby , Coordinatrice FAWE Mali Ch apter La Pre sidents de la Comm ission Plaidoyer - Co mmunicat io n Tel: 223 237117 Asso ciation Malienn e po ur I'Appui a la Sea larisation et a I'Education des Filles (AMASEF/FAW E) Immeuble MEME-ABK5, Hamdall aye , BPE 1366. Bamako, Mali Fax No, (223) 2293619 or clo 2227767/223 71 I?Minist ry:Te l No , (223) 2293619 Email: ama sef,fawe@datat ec h,toolnet,org

FAWE NIGER Pr of Bouli A li D iallo, Pre side nt e M m e A issat a Sidikou M assi, C oor dinat r ice FAWE Niger C hapt er Preside nt e et Rect eur. Unive rsite Abdou Moumo uni de Niamey BP 237 -10896. Niamey, B,P' 1372 7. Niamey, Niger Fax No, (227) 733862/73 4286. Faculty of agronomy (227) 733 943 (temp) Tel No, (227) 7 34286/7 32876/7 32531 Email: diallo ba@ intn et .ne

FAWE GUINEA Mme Hadja Djenabou Sampil, Presidente Mme Kadi atou Diallo, Coordinatrice FAWE Guinea Chapter Forum des Educatrices de Guinee (FEG), Immeuble Boulbinet. face a I'ORTG 2 erne Etage apparternent 20 I, BP 3864 Conakry. Mobile: 0 I I 297869. R, Guinee Email: dkb 13@caramail.com. Fax No, (224) 454797/451774. Tel No, 454323 /454797 Email: fawegui@yahoo.fr

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SE Aminata Tall , Presidente Mme Laurence Marechal Ngom, Coordinatrice

FAWE Senegal Chapter Fax: (22 1) 823 6673 /8226673 Te l: 822 3694 , Presidente de la SN/FEA, 23 Rue Calmette. BP 6646 Dakar-Etoile, Senegal. Bineta mobile: 5580729 Fax No, (22 1) 8-224177, MOE (22 1) 8 218930/221 463 ,Tel No, (22 1) 8-224 170/233213 Email: fawe_senegal@yahoo.fr

FAWE TOGO Mm e Kekeli Jeannine Agounke , Preside nte AHUEFA FAWE Togo Chapter Tel hse: 228 2216965. Email: kagounke@caramail.com.42 Avenue de Calais a cote de la Pharrnacie pour Tous, BP 13077. Lome- Togo Tel/Fax No. (228) 2224463. Fax: (228)-2216965. Tel No. (228) 2214129 Email: fetofawe@hotmail.com.phildweggah@caramail.com.ahuefa@rdd.tg

AAU

Association of African U niversit ies

AU

African Union

ADEA

Association fo r the D evelo pment of Educat io n in Africa

AGE l

African Girls' Educat io n Init iat ive

ANCEFA

Africa Network of Coalitions for Education For All

BREDA

Dakar Regional Office (Bureau Regionale - Dakar) (UNESCO)

CIDA

Canadian International Deve lo pme nt Agency

DAN IDA

Danish Inte rn at io nal Development Agency

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States EDDI

Education for Democracy and Development Initiative

EFA

Education For All

FAME

FAWE Award for Media Excellence

FAPED

Forum of African Parliamentarians for Education

FEMSA

Female Education in Mathematics and Science in Africa

GNP

Gross National Product

HIV/AIDS

Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus/Acquire Immunity Deficiency Syndrome

IICBA

International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa

MINEDAF Conference of Ministers of Education of African Member States MO E

Ministry of Education

NAPS

National Action Plans

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa's Development

NGO

Non-Government Organization

NORAD

Norwegian Agency for Development

SIDA

Swedish Int e rn at io nal Development Agency

SRP

Strategic Resource Planning

UNESCO

United Nations Educat io nal. Scientific and Cu ltural Organisation

UNFPA

Unit ed Nat ions Fund for Po pulat io n Activities

UNICEF

Unit ed Nations C hild re n's Fund

USAID

Un ited States Agency for Int e rn at io nal Development

WGFP

Working Group o n Female Participation in Educat io n

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