Support to the Association for the Development of Education in Africa

Results achieved as of the end of the project include: 1) The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) contributed to achieving the key objectives of the Education plan for the Second Decade of Education for Africa . These objectives focus mainly on the regional and continental integration of Education Management Information Systems to improve planning organizational efficiencies data collection and analysis information sharing and transparency in the education sector. For example the Southern African Development Community has completed phase 2 of the Plan and the Economic Community of Central African States and the Economic Community of West African States have completed phase 1. In addition all of the Member States strengthened their competencies to pilot and evaluate their progress in the seven priority areas for the Plan. 2) The ADEA Secretariat and nine national working groups have produced a wide range of policy documents and tools in response to policy dialogue and capacity building needs of African countries. The ADEA has also established a learning framework for the identification documentation analysis dissemination and systematic sharing of lessons about the process to improve the quality of education systems. 3) The ADEA used the communication materials produced in 2010 (publications web site and databases) to build media relations and awareness in order to attract new members and potential partners. 4) In order to help build the capacities of the ADEA the findings of an independent evaluation conducted in 2010 was used in 2011 to incite an analysis on how to restructure the Association in the coming years.