South-South Cooperation Programme for the Right

to Education in Lusophone Countries

SSCP- Lusophone diagnosis on the situation of education

Phase 01

Phase 01

2013 End of the first phase of the Programme (March)

2012SSCP-Lusophone (cont)

2011Beginning of the South-South Cooperation Programme for the Right to Education in Lusophone Countries

2007-10 First discussions between the BCRE and OSF about a Cooperation Programme and dialogues with the Lusophone coalitions at GCE meetings

Phase 01

Country visits (September 2011 - March 2012)

2013End of the first phase of the Programme (March)

2011Beginning of the South-South Cooperation Programme for the Right to Education in Lusophone Countries

1st Group Meeting: Consensus-building Workshop (May, 2011 – Brazil)

2012SSCP-Lusophone (cont)

Programme midterm evaluation – BCRE and OSF (March, 2012 - South Africa)

2nd Group Meeting: Programme Review, (May 2012 - South Africa)

3rd Group Meeting: Local Plans Workshop (Oct/Nov, 2012 – Cape Verde)

Phase 01

Phase 01Programme evaluation

A. Incipient Lusophone network on Right to Education

B. Different concepts of Advocacy

C. Absence of reliable data

D. Need for Institutional strengthening of coalitions

Phase 02

Phase 02 :: project proposal

Overall objectiveContribute to the

expansion of access and improvement of quality of education in the participating

countries.

Specific Objective 1Strengthen the advocacy of

civil society in national education policy arenas.

Specific Objective 2Encourage the

establishment of a Lusophone network on the

right to education.

a) Developing an analysis of the situation of education in each of the participant countries.

b) Reviewing, developing and implementing advocacy strategies of each civil society coalitions.

Transversal Area: promote and increase participation and visibility

of the Lusophone coalitions in national and international spaces

for debate on the right to education.

Phase 02 :: diagnosis

(a) Developing an analysis of the situation of education in each of the participant countries These activities will generate new information and new analyses to support and improve the work of the national coalitions, contributing to the development and strengthening of advocacy actions and deepening the debate on education.

Phase 02 :: advocacy

(b) Reviewing, developing and implementing advocacy strategies of each civil society coalition The second phase proposal intends to continue the process of elaboration and implementation of the Local Plans, with ongoing advice and direct support to help coalitions to identify advocacy opportunities and to implement political actions.

Diagnosis on the situation of education

Diagnosis

Research structure

• Common basis researchCharacterization of the Lusophone countries, the structure and situation of the educational system in each of them

• Specific researchThe EFA coalition would chose a theme to a specific research, in dialogue with the actions they were already developing nationally

Discussion with the networks to identify research focus area

Diagnosis

Workshop: preparation of the diagnosis on the situation of education

Definition of the research theme and a common work planMay, 2013 - Baturite / Ceará, Brazil

1. Discussions on the problems of the educational system in the Lusophone countries2. Identifications of the main themes relevant to each coalition3. Defining the criteria that should influence the theme choice4. Debate: common theme to all countries x different theme for each coalition

Diagnosis

CV GB STP ANG MOZ GLOBALAcesso à Educação Infantil 220 146 188 172 183 909Formação de Professores 170 142 167 177 213 869Educação Inclusiva 180 132 168 108 195 783Financiamento da Educação 92 149 150 183 203 777Permanência 71 136 172 119 189 687

• Angola: Teachers Training, Early Childhood Education and Automatic Progression;

• Cape Verde: Early Childhood Education, Inclusive Education and Teachers Training;

• Guinea-Bissau: Education Financing, Permanence, Access to Education (Early Childhood Education);

• Mozambique: Lifelong Education, Teachers Training and Early Childhood Education;

• Sao Tome and Principe: Teacher Training and Access to Education (Early Childhood Education).

Specific research topics

Specific research topics

Meeting of the SSCP consultants for the researchConstruction of methodological proposals for the research in each country

July 23rd to 26th, 2013 - Porto, Portugal

Researchers involved• Researchers from Universidade do Porto• Field researcher for Angola and Mozambique• Field researcher for Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and

Sao Tome and Principe TopicsSpecific research topics

Methodological proposals Data collection instruments

Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde what guarantees

access to a quality Early Childhood Education?

Specific research topics

what guarantees access to a quality Early Childhood and

Primary Education?

Sao Tome and Principe

Specific research topics

Guinea-Bissauwhat characterizes the demand and supply of Early Childhood Education in the country?

Specific research topics

Methodology

Methodology

Research methodologies• semi-structured interviews• focus groups• visit to key places (nurseries,

kindergartens, schools)• document analysis

Methodology

Country Workshops Mozambique Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Sao Tome and Principe

Emerging Issues

Emerging Issues

• How is quality defined and is it contextual?• What is the influence of the World Bank and other

actors on the ECDE agenda in the participating countries?

• What is the civil society landscape on ECDE and are they sufficiently organised/engaged in policy dialogue?

• How to advocate for ECDE in countries where the government is unable to guarantee basic education?

• How to provide ECDE in crisis affected settings such as Guinea Bissau?