This 3 August 2022, our Executive Director, Lawalley Cole was delighted to meet Her Excellency Madam Yaprap Alp, Ambassador of Turkey to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union. Their meeting was very cordial as they exchanged on various areas that Turkey will be intervening in following the Joint Action Plan agreed upon during
The African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs and Peace Security, H.E. Ambassador Adeoye Bankole, on Friday 5th August 2022, received in audience in his Office at the A.U. Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa the Executive Director of CAFOR, Dr. Lawalley Cole, accompanied by CAFOR Senior Advisor for Partnerships and Resource Mobilization, Mr. Tshimanga Mukadi-Mutoke. Also
CAFOR and its partners are now beginning to work to strengthen the organization’s institutional capacity at headquarters and regional office levels to contribute to the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of effective and evidence-based CAFOR programs while ensuring social and economic integration and inclusion of young people’s participation in these projects. CAFOR staff and
On this day, July 22, 2022, our Executive Director, Dr. Lawalley Cole, was delighted to receive in his office at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Mr. Fuad Gena, the Director-General of the Africa Youth Development and Excellence Center (AYDEC) with whom he signed a Memorandum of Understanding that would enable the two entities
On Friday, July 15, 2022, we at CAFOR were pleased to enter through a Memorandum of Understanding into a new agreement with O-YES Global Foundation (O-YES), a youth-led, non-profit, and Non-Government global organization founded to support and empower youth by designing and implementing youth-focused development programs and initiatives in partnership with local communities, governments, international
CAFOR will work with other institutions and organizations at the global level to support ongoing activities in integrated online full e-textbooks. The idea would be to effectively promote digitized, full-text resources to learners in Africa via the Internet, thereby contributing to the revitalization of education and lifelong learning on the continent, the expansion of business,
CAFOR and its partners are initiating and implementing a new project to enhance communication for development by training over 30,000 journalists, communication, and public relations officers in the ministries of education and civil society organizations in all five sub-regions of the African continent. The Project will also revise and update an existing Education Toolkit for
CAFOR is working with its partners to improve education in 10 selected African countries for the most vulnerable children scattered across the five regions of the continent by creating a safe environment for up to 2,000,000 children and improving the teaching skills of 2,000 teachers. The project will have a strong communication dimension from the
Between today and June 2024, CAFOR and its partners will implement a project to create awareness and ownership of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16-25) in all African Union member states. CAFOR will build visibility and credibility for the CESA 16-25 by disseminating the Strategy’s content and spirit widely through its various media
As one of its ten flagship projects, CAFOR is initiating and implementing a continental project in Africa to address education during emergencies in 15 African member states of the African Union spread across the five regions of the continent. This project will address issues affecting the most vulnerable children by creating a safe environment for
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