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  • 2006 : Advancing in education: reaching rural people, developing capacities
  • 2004 : progress in Education for All: focus on governance
  • 2003: girls' participation in education, education in situations of emergency and modalities of development co-operation
  • 2000: HIV/AIDS - the sector-wide approach
  • 1998: poverty alleviation and disadvantaged groups
  • 1996: implementing EFA goals and strategic issues in the development of post-basic education

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IWGE meeting held in New York, 10-11 June 2008

Agenda >>

Contributions, available as PDF downloads, addressed the following themes:

I. Show and Tell

  1. JICA support to education development
    by Keiko Mizuno & Kazuyo Igarash, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  2. A Global Partnership to accelerate progress towards MDGs through Education for Rural People (ERP) FAO
  3. Introducing The Commonwealth Policies and Activities
  4. The Institution and its educational activities
    by Yael Duthilleul, The Council of Europe Development Bank
  5. The World Bank Education Agenda
    by Jamil Salmi , World Bank
  6. Spanish Development Policy in Education
    byAlberto Begué, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
  7. The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
  8. Aid for Development Programme on Education
    by Manuel Carmelo Rosa, Gulbenkian Foundation

II. Capacity development

  1. Capacity development for achieving EFA: learning from successes and failures
    by A. de Grauwe, IIEP
  2. Capacity development in educational planning and management for achieving EFA. Preparation of a UNESCO Policy paper - An overview of provisional findingscation
    IIEP
  3. Rising profile of the HRH crisis - World Health Organization
    by Mario R. Dal Poz, Coordinator, Human Resources for Health, WHO

III. Financing and Equity

  1. Free primary education and equity: Some research questions linked to policy and implementation
    by Dina Craissati, UNICEF
  2. Can Poor Parents Pay?
    by George Ingram, Education Policy and Data Center
  3. Households' spending on education in Africa
    by André Francis Ndem, Pole de Dakar, Breda
  4. Post Primary Education:Efficiency & Equity Issues
    by Cream Wright and Enrique Delamonica, UNICEF
  5. Equity in tertiary education:facts and misconceptions
    by Jamil Salmi, World Bank
  6. African Higher Education Financing and Equity Concerns
    by Andrea Johnson and Sue Grant Lewis, The Partanership for Higher Education in Africa
  7. A cluster-based INSET model (MGMP Wilayah)applying Lesson Study in Indonesia: Its significance for Equity, Effectiveness and Sustainability
    by Keiko Mizuno, Japan International Cooperation Agency

IV. Data Management

  1. Monitoring education progress: the measurement agenda
    by Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  2. Education for Rural People, 6 Years later - what have we learned? From Policy to Data
    based on Acker & Gasperini : Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
  3. Indicators of quality education
    by Mary Joy Pigozzi, AED
  4. Towards an index of quality education
    by Mary Joy Pigozzi, AED
  5. Visual display of information
    by Frank van Cappelle, IIEP