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Advocacy & Lobbying

Capacity Building of Teachers

Stakeholder Mobilization

What we do

Facilitating Research Media Training Stakeholder Mobilization Capacity Building of Teachers Advocacy & Lobbying Partnership & Networking Youth Skill Development and Support in Emergencies & Post Conflict Situation

Members

Mounia BelafiamoroccoBheki MassekoEswatiniHenry KabweZambiaTessema BekeleEthiopiaKabral Blay-AmihereGhanaJustin MambikiCongoBurang Goree NdiayeGambiaSeatholo Masego TumediBotswanaCarol NatukundaUgandaHervé P. HessouBeninKiram TadesseEthiopiaJoseph ChimbutoMalawiIsatou JallowTHE GAMBIARosette RandETHIOPIAAlula Teklelamariam GebrekidanEthiopiaVirgile AhissouBeninKwesi AmoakGhanaJeanne-Frances MaduakorNigeriaTsige Getaneh EthiopiaGérard GuédégbéBeninMaria MdachiTanzaniaAdam AlqaliNigeriaTula DlaminiSouth AfricaJohn Kwame BoatengGhanaJean-Marie Mbala Mwambila-BantuDR CongoOmer Redi Ahmed EthiopiaEmmanuel AMETEPEYGhanaLiliane BigayimpunziBurundiLewis MsasaMalawiHamadou Tidiane SYSenegalNovella NikwigizeRwandaMaame Afua NkrumahGhanaHassan GhazalyEgyptJahou FaalGambiaRotimi OnekamaNigeriaAya ChebbiTunisiaAmos TizoraMalawiIda Nganga KenyaNicolas MUHIGIRWA

Staff

Michael AwononIT ManagerKaleb Amare Regional Programme AssistantTsedey ShumeSpecial Assistant of the Executive Director Evelyne ManiragabaRegional Programme ManagerMerisa AlooCommunication Officer

Executive Board

Kate Adoo-AdekuPresident / GHANAProfessor Kate Adoo-Adeku is a former Director of the Institute of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana.Read moreLawalley ColeExecutive Director / GAMBIADr Cole has more than thirty years of progressively responsible experience in teaching, policy formulation and development planning, programme design, programme implementation, monitoring, research and evaluation, and other managerial areas

Context

In 2015 the international community through the United Nations adopted 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) effectively replacing the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000. The SGDs will shape the agenda in the next 15 years until 2030.  Goal 4 (SDG#4) focuses on education and aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education

Expected activities that CAFOR will undertake as an independent Non-Governmental Organization

CAFOR has a network that consists of more than 1,500 journalists, communication experts, and members of NGOs and civil society organizations from all the 55-member states of the African Union. These networks will be instrumental in knowledge sharing and stimulating and sustaining a public debate on education and development issues in many countries.  CAFOR also

What is the Strategic Orientation of CAFOR?

CAFOR will rotate its strategy very much around the concept of work and training that gives skills to young people. More attention will, therefore, be given to technical and vocational education rather than formal university education that awards degrees to individuals that may not be useful in the circumstances and the environment that obtains in