UNESCO International
Institute for Capacity
Building in Africa
1999 - 2009
Background
• Since the World Conference on Education
(Jomtien, 1990), strengthening the capacity of
African Ministries of Education was a major
condition for Achieving EFA goals.
• This was also the central theme of the ADEA
Biennale (Dakar, 1997) .
 The 29th General Conference of UNESCO
(Paris, 1999) created IICBA, a category I
Institute based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mandate
• To build and strengthen the capacities of
teacher education institutions in Africa.
• To contribute to the design and implementation
of the Second Decade of Education for Africa
(2006-2015) in the areas of:
 Teacher education
 Distance education
 Curriculum development
 Educational management
Mode of Operation
• Training (face-to-face) and ODL
• Use of ICTs for education
• Research
• Partnership:
African Union and its RECs
UNESCO Cluster and National Offices and
National Commissions in Africa
ADEA Working Groups
Individual specialists and centres of excellence in
teacher education and development
Administration
Governing Board
12 Full, 12 Alternate
•9 on an equitable geographical,
linguistic and gender distribution
•2 from Africa’s regional
organizations
•1 representative of the donor
community
oThe UNESCO DG representative
and the UN agencies attend
meetings without the right to vote
o IICBA’s director is the secretary
of the Board
Leadership
2008-
Julien Daboué, Officer in Charge
2004-2008
Joseph Ngu, Former Director
1999-2003
Fay Chung, Founding Director
Means of Action
Staff and UNESCO
Networks
•19 professional,
administrative and
support staff
•Various UNESCO
Networks:
•UNESCO Permanent Delegations,
http://erc.unesco.org/portal/PermanentDelegations.asp?lang
uage=en
•UNITWIN, http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.phpURL_ID=41557&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=20
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Interventions
TTISSA and 2nd Decade of Education for Africa
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Teacher Education and
Teacher Training
Institution Management
(TE&TTIM)
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Educational
Management,
Research and
Advocacy (EMR&A)
ICTs for Education,
Knowledge Management
and Distribution
(ICT4EKM&D)
TE&TTIM
Degree Offering Programmes
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•MEd ICT (Ethiopia, Ghana,
Sudan, Uganda)
•Post Graduate Diploma
in DE (Ethiopia, Gambia,
Ghana, Madagascar,
Malawi, Sierra Leone
Swaziland)
•MA in Teaching Math and
Science (Ethiopia)
•MEd Critical Practitioner
Inquiry (Ethiopia)
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TE&TTIM …
Short-term Training
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•Produced modules for TEI
management
•Trained heads of TEIs in 10
TTISSA countries
•Support to Nigeria MOE in
training heads of TEIs
•Support to CapEFA
implementation in Guinea,
Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania
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EMR&A
Short-term Training
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•Produced IICBA Capacity
Building Framework
•Produced Handbook for
Educational Planners
•Organised Women
Educational Leadership
(WEL) workshops
•Launched Fundamental
Series on Teacher Issues in
Africa
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Short-term Training
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•Commissioned research on
Early Childhood Care and
Education in six countries
(Burkina Faso, Congo,
Ethiopia, Lesotho, Nigeria
and South Africa)
•Sponsoring and publication
of booklets on Girls’
Participation in Education,
Manual for Multigrade
Teaching, Manual for
Textbook Writers, Manual for
Integrating HIV/AIDS into
School Curriculum
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ICT4EKM&D
ICT for Education (ICT4E)
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•Needs Assessment on ISAT
•Case Studies on ICT4E
•Training on Pedagogy-based
ICT use in education
•Training on contextualizing
science teacher education
using opensource software
•Training on ICT-enhanced
Teacher Standards
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ICT4EKM&D …
Knowledge Management and Distribution
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•Teacher Education Network
(www.ten-iicba.org)
•Electronic Libraries
(http://library.unesco-iicba.org)
•Production of interactive CDROMs on HIV/AIDS
•Newsletters and website
(www.unesco-iicba.org)
•Use of opensource software
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Partnership
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International Forum
on Teacher Education
Innovation (China)
Teacher Development in
the Second Decade of
Education for Africa (AU)
Pedagogy-based
ICT Use in Education
(Korea Natcom)
Partnership …
CapEFA on ODL
(BREDA)
ICT in Education Statistics
(UIS)
Teachers Professional
Development
(USAID and SIDA)
Future Plan
Establishing
Further Network
of Partners
Working Closely with
the AU and its RECs
Enhanced and
Sustainable Teacher
Education in Africa
Continued Support to
TTISSA Implementation
Undertaking Research and
Effective Use of ICT
for Teacher Development
©UNESCO-IICBA, 2009
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Fax: +251-11-551 4936
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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