Networking is an important aspect of the work of Pamoja West Africa at local, national, regional and international levels.
Annual General Meeting 2009
Pamoja WA held its annual meeting in Cotonou, Benin, from 16th-20th November. 23 representatives attended from 9 countries: Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, The Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo. The meeting enabled discussion of 2009 activities organised the development of an action plan for 2010. It was also an opportunity for national Pamojas to share their activities and country reports can be viewed or downloaded below. The full AGM report will soon be available.
Pamoja Burkina 2009
Pamoja Gambia 2009
- Pamoja Mali 2009
Pamoja Nigeria 2009
- Pamoja Togo 2009
Pamoja Sierra Leone 2009
- Pamoja Guinea 2009
Pamoja Guinea Bissau 2009
- Pamoja Ghana Communication 2009
Exchange visits in 2009
Exchange visits were organised in Mali, Guinea and Senegal from 12 to 23 July 2009 in partnership with National Pamojas in these countries and with financial support from ICCO, dvv International and Action Aid. These visits brought together 15 participants from state technical services and NGOs from Mali, Guinea, Morocco, Togo, Benn, Burkina Faso and Senegal with key stakeholders in nn formal education in the communities that were visited.
The objectives of the exchange visits included:
- Imporving common understanding between strategic actors in youth and adult education;
- Encouring the spread of innovation in Reflect practice;
- Discussing the implementation of action points by Reflect circles;
- Enabling those who were not familiar with Reflect to see the apporach in action;
- Building capacity through shared learning;
- Promoting collaboration between state and non-state actors;
- Encouraging advocacy rooted in local realities;
- Drawing attendtion to literacy and the literate environment;
- Disseminating information about CONFINTEA and discssing its significance in the local contest.
Meetings in 2007
Pamoja West Africa participated in a number of events:
- The World Social Forum - Nairobi, Kenya
- The ICAE (International Council for Adult Education) General Assembly
- The re-establishment of the ADEA (Association for the Development of Education in Africa) Working Group - Ouagadougou
- The CIRAC VI (International Circle for Reflect Action and Communication) meeting - Kaolack, Senegal
- The Africa meeting on Reflect, literacy and a framework for evaluation - Cape Town
- The third National Youth Forum on Reproductive Health - Bamako
- Activites of the Malian Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Education for All
CIRAC VI
CIRAC stands for the International Circle of Reflect Action and Communication, a network of Reflect pratitioners which aims to promote the sharing of experience through:
- Renewal and innovation of Reflect activities and practice;
- Communicating success and good practice;
- Coordination of related Reflect methodologies and activities.
Since the first CIRAC meeting in 2000 in Oxford, England, 5 other meetings have been held:
- CIRAC II in South Africa in 2001
- CIRAC III in Brazil in 2002
- CIRAC IV in Bangladesh in 2004
- CIRAC V in the Basque Country in 2005
- CIRAC VI on Senegal in 2007
Participants at the 2007 meeting came from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Cape Town
In 2009 the global adult education constituency will meet in Brazil for the 6th CONFINTEA meeting where adult literacy will be a major part of the agenda. CONFINTEA is a UN convened meeting with Ministers and CSOs that has happened every 12 years since 1949. To reverse decades of under-investment there is an urgent need for new evidence about the effectiveness of literacy programmes and the links between literacy and other development goals. The Cape Town meeting brought Reflect practitioners from diverse organisations in different countries around the world together to work on these issues.