Regional experience sharing workshop May 2024

Welcome message from Martín Benavides, Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Opening remarks by Mr. Moustapha Mamba Guirassy, Minister of National Education of Senegal (in French)

Opening remarks by Dr. Dimitri SANGA, Director of the UNESCO Regional Multisectoral Office for West Africa (in French)

How can we better support countries in improving the quality of learning? To answer this question, AFD and IIEP-UNESCO have created the Support for Education Quality Management Programme. The aim of this program is to adopt a new approach to helping countries bring about a positive transformation in the professional practices of those involved in education systems. As the program draws to a close, IIEP wishes to present the achievements of the Programme, discuss its effects on beneficiaries, and outline the prospects for supporting countries. This is the central objective of this workshop.

More specifically, the workshop aims to:

• Present the Programme and its approach.
• Share experiences from beneficiary countries.
• Discuss the achievements and impact of the Programme in the beneficiary countries.
• Outline the prospects in terms of support for countries to improve the management for learning.

Download the concept note and agenda by clicking on the picture below. 

In order for every child to leave primary school with a basic threshold of competencies, the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO Dakar) launched a program to support quality management in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. An innovative approach involving all levels of the education system, with stakeholders identifying weaknesses and strengths in their professional practices and being guided towards sustainable transformation.

Read the retrospective article

Workstreams and experimentations

As part of its efforts to improve educational quality management practices, the program has targeted a number of workstreams and developed experiments designed as examples of solutions to the problems encountered. To find out more, please consult the guidance notes below, a collection of publications on a variety of themes related to steering the quality of education, and the more concise articles.

Strengthening instructional leadership: analysing professional practices in Senegal

• Guidance note #2- Strengthening instructional leadership
• In Senegal, inspectors and school principals engage in self-analysis to better support teachers

Using data to improve learning: the example of the Shawara Karatu initiative in Niger

• Guidance note #1- Assessing student learning, Yes, but what next ?
• Improving Schools with Local Data, the Shawara Karatu initiative

Identifying and promoting innovations: tutored micro-teaching workshops in Niger

• Guidance note #3- Identifying and promoting innovations
• Tutored micro-teaching workshops: born in the classroom, this innovative Nigerien approach could become part of the official national curriculum

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• La Démarche d’Accompagnement au Changement du Programme
• La Démarche d’Elaboration des Solutions
• L’Analyse des Pratiques Professionnelles des Inspecteurs et Directeurs d’école

Testimonial videos from education actors

Some videos of the Program's approach and its workstreams

Interview with representatives of our program partners

• Du pilotage à la mise en œuvre : La transformation du curriculum au cœur de la qualité
• Réflexion sur les Perspectives

The workshop will be held in person at Ndiambour Hotel in Dakar from Monday 13 May to Thursday 16 May 2024.

For any request for information about the workshop, you can contact: atelierqualite2024@iiep.unesco.org