Programme and Activities

Capacity Building: Capacity building of SSA high officials of ministries of education and finance in educational finance, planning, management and budgeting.

Research: Conducting case studies on all the aspects of educational finance and budgeting at the country level through national research teams. The following case studies have been published to date: Benin, Burundi, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal and Swaziland. Egypt and Kenya are in press.

Development of training materials such as training manuals to go are used during the training sessions as valuable tools to maximize the learning potentials of the trainees.

Databases on the impressive network of educational specialists, and educational finance experts across the continent.

Policy Dialogue Conference: Policy dialogue conferences reinforce thee interface between the various stakeholders of educational in Africa: governments, development agencies, research institutions, academia, teachers’ unions, students’ unions, civil society organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Two conferences were held in 2004 in Dakar on the Crisis of Higher Education in West Africa and the Financing and Planning of Education in Africa. One was held in 2005 in Kampala, Uganda which topic was: The Financing of Education in East Africa: From Government Intervention to Local Community Involvement. The proceedings of the conferences are in the process of being published in the CODESRIA monograph series.

Synergies and Partnerships: A joint collaborative program was held with German Capacity Building International (InWent), the UNESCO-IIEP, and the University of Wits through the Managing Educational Costs, Finance and Budgeting (MECOFIBU) for planning and budget officers of five Southern African countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.