Education International
The Education Program Development Fund (EPDF) supported a partnership with Education International to follow up on the Bamako Conference on Non-Civil Service Teachers, held in November 2004 and co-hosted by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the World Bank, Education International, and the Mali Ministry for National Education. This Conference brought together representatives from Ministries of Education, Finance, Employment, and Civil Service, as well as leaders of teachers' trade unions and associations of parents from 12 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. Representatives from development agencies and civil society also participated in the Conference, including from CIDA, AFD, AIF, ADB, ILO, CONFEMEN, Coopération Française, GTZ, IIEP, ROCARE, UNICEF, UNESCO/IICBA, UQAM, ISSE/GUINEE, Laval University, and CRIFPE. The General Report and Executive Summary highlight findings from the follow-up missions to the aforementioned countries and are available in English and French.
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)
The Education Program Development Fund (EPDF) provided support to the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning to facilitate the African Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy, held in September 2007 in Bamako, Mali. The Conference is a part of a major advocacy initiative in the framework of Education for All and, in particular, the United National Literacy Decade and UNESCO's Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE). The Mali Conference was hosted by the Government of Mali and co-hosted with UNESCO. As the first high-level Conference devoted to literacy education and learning through non-formal education, the Conference benefited from the participation of African Ministers and Directors responsible for education, literacy and languages, as well as Ministers of Finance, from countries facing the most pronounced literacy challenges. All related publications are available through the UIL web site.
http://www.unesco.org/uil/en/nesico/bamako/bamako.htm
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