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Innovative Institutional Arrangement : The example of the UNESCO South-South Cooperation Program m e/ Fund for Education 1 Background UNESCOs innovative institutional arrangement to - actively promote education through South-South and

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Innovative Institutional Arrangement: The example of the UNESCO South-South Cooperation Program m e/ Fund for Education

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Background

UNESCO’s innovative institutional arrangement to

actively promote education through South-South and North-South-South Cooperation

South-South Cooperation Programme/ Fund

established in 2007 by UNESCO Executive Board

Result of sustained effort by G77 and China to

bring the issue of south-south cooperation to the attention of Member States

Fund fully operational since January 2008

following establishment of governance and coordinating mechanism through a Steering Committee, and nomination of a Chair working closely with the UNESCO Education Sector

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What is ‘innovative’ about the Fund?

This Fund is unique amongst the various South-

South Funds managed by multilateral

rganisations, in that it is dedicated exclusively

to supporting projects in the field of education

Fund established at the initiative of countries of

the South – the G77 & China - with funding pooled so far only from developing countries

Projects selected on the basis of regional

priorities, through a democratic participatory process, involving G-77 & China Regional Groups and UNESCO’s regional offices

The Fund promotes the Education for All and

Millennium Development Goals

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Pilot Projects currently implemented by the Fund

Adult Literacy and Non-Formal

Education (NFE) – Arab States

ICT in Education Teacher Training –

Asia-Pacific Region

Mother-tongue based multilingual

education - Africa

Promoting disaster preparedness in

schools – Latin Am erica & Caribbean

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Brief presentation of regional pilot projects (1)

The Arab States project focuses on Adult literacy and Non-Form al education (NFE) - it has 3 main

bjectives:
To review current practices; identify gaps; and share

existing good practices in the region;

To develop robust systems for monitoring adult

literacy and NFE to cater to the information needs of major agents involved in NFE and literacy activities in the Arab region

To strengthen the capacity of literacy and NFE

planners and managers in the area of education management information systems (NFE-MIS), monitoring and evaluation

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Brief presentation of regional pilot projects (2)

The Africa region project on m other-tongue based

m ultilingual education seeks to identify best practices in terms of teaching approaches, including innovative use of teaching and learning materials, that can be replicated/ adapted in other countries with similar challenges, to improve learning

utcomes

This project responds to an issue of major concern

in Africa. In many countries, school children are struggling with a foreign language of instruction, inherited from the colonial period, which is contributing to low levels of achievement, and poor quality of education in general, and more specifically among the most vulnerable groups.

Sharing of best practices is a concrete step in

sensitizing policy-makers about ways to overcome current hurdles and improving the situation of languages in education

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Brief presentation of regional pilot projects (3)

The theme of the Latin America and Caribbean

(LAC) Project - Prom oting disaster preparedness in schools - is an issue which concerns all parts of the world, especially in the face of climate change and global warming

Through this project, UNESCO regional office for LAC

is working with the network of UNESCO Associated Schools, in view of equipping school children with skills and knowledge to enable them to take an active role in community protection and environmental stewardship

Within the project, teaching/ learning tools are

developed and shared, and best practices made available through an online database

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Brief presentation of regional pilot projects (4)

The Asia-Pacific project on I CT in Education

teacher training builds on the vast experience of the UNESCO Regional Asia-Pacific office in the area

f ICT in Education

It seeks to strengthen a network of Teacher Training

Institutions in the region by developing their capacities in training teachers to use ICT effectively.

Within the project, an online platform has been

established and teacher training materials made available both electronically and on CD-ROMs

Currently the project team is producing an online

version of the e-learning materials to facilitate wider access and learning processes

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Challenges & Way forward

The UNESCO South-South Cooperation

Program m e/ Fund in Education has so far benefited only from support of developing countries

The pilot projects initiated with seed money

from developing countries have great potential to be expanded, but they require further funding from new partners, especially partners

f the North

There has been some reticence by development

partners to contribute to the Fund although the governance mechanism including a Steering Committee are in place and the Fund is fully

perational

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Challenges & Way forward (ctd)

Without due attention paid to areas such as

literacy/ adult learning, Non-Formal Education, teacher education, which are of vital importance for many E-9 countries (Bangladesh,

Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mexico and Nigeria), the EFA and MDG Goals will

not be attained in many of these highly populated countries

Maintaining and increasing the level of

investment in Education, especially in the countries of the South, is key to economic development and global stability.

Effective and innovative partnerships are the

way forward.

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