Primary Education

• Education For All - Fast Track  Partnership: Capacity Development

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  Today, about 60 countries, among them 33 from Sub-Saharan Africa, are either participating or have expressed interest in joining the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI). The emerging landscape of donor funding for primary education poses new opportunities and challenges to these countries and donors in preparing, evaluating, implementing and monitoring a credible education sector plan. World Bank led workshops entitled "Capacity Development for Country Leadership in the EFA-FTI Partnership" strive to respond to the need to create knowledge sharing and learning networks among countries that have already been endorsed by the EFA-FTI and those that will soon be endorsed, to ensure that they are better equipped to respond to such challenges and opportunities. ...more

• Education Management
  Since the launch of the Education for All Fast Track Initiative in 2002, donor funding for primary education has been increasing steadily to support countries efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary school completion by 2015.  The improvement of education management in African Countries (IEMAC/AGEPA) plays an essential role in achieving this goal by ensuring that resources are used as efficiently and equitable as possible, especially in settings with considerable resource constraints.  ...more
  

Secondary Education

• Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA)
  Rising primary enrolment and completion rates have led to increased demand for access to post-primary education. Faced with the demand pressures, some countries are, in turn, declaring free universal secondary education. While the social and economic rationale for expanding learning opportunities beyond primary education is clear, the challenges of such reforms are daunting and the task of developing sustainable secondary education strategies is exceedingly complex. ...more

• Cross regional initiative: African Leaders in Education and Training for Sustained Growth (LETSGA)
  As part of the World Bank's collaboration with the Government of Singapore on showcasing areas of experience and expertise of particular interest and relevance to low-income countries a two-week workshop for African Leaders in Education and Training was organized jointly by the World Bank and the government of Singapore. ...more

Tertiary Educaction

• Tertiary Education in Africa (TEIA)
  Improving economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains a core priority in the quest of breaking existing fetters on development progress within the region. Recent analytical work has increased understanding of the relationship between the potential for growth and the stock of human skills available in each nation. This stock,in turn, is closely linked to the volume and quality of outputs in post-basic education, especially tertiary education and research. To effectively support countries in sub-Saharan Africa as they seek sustainable solutions to their higher education challenges, the World Bank adopts a case specific approach that aims to provide options tailored to each country. ...more