The document discusses the role of higher education in achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals, highlighting the need for increased involvement and awareness among higher education institutions. It outlines various initiatives, objectives, and projects aimed at enhancing education quality and access for all demographics. Despite some progress, the document notes that many EFA targets will not be met by 2015, emphasizing the necessity for evidence-based data and collaboration within the education sector.

1. Higher Education and Research for
Reaching the Education for All Goals
A Project of the International Association of Universities
developed with the support of an international Reference
Group and partial funding from the Swedish agency SIDA

2. Introduction
• EFA?
• World Declaration on Education for All, Jomtien, Thailand, 1990
• Dakar Framework for Action, Dakar, Senegal, 2000
• 6 EFA Goals: Early Childhood Care and Education; Free Universal Primary Education; Youth and
Adult Life Skills; Adult Literacy Increased by Half; Gender Parity by 2005 and Gender Equality by
2015; Quality Education
• Jomtien 2nd Statement, Thailand, 2011
• MDGs?
• United Nations Millennium Declaration, New York, US, 2000
• 8 MDGs: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger; Universal Primary Education; Gender Parity
and Empowerment of Women; Reduce Child Mortality; Improve Maternal Health; Combat
HIV/AID, Malaria; Ensure Environmental Sustainability; Develop Global Partnerships for
Development
• Education First?
• Initiative of the United Nations Secretary –General, 2012
• 3 priority areas: Put every child in school; Improve the quality of learning; Foster global
citizenship
• Impact of MDGs on EFA?
• Poverty has overtaken Education
• Focus only on UPE (EFA goal n. 2; MDG n. 2) with a pinch of girls’ education (EFA goal n. 5,
MDG n. 3), limiting the activity of the HE sector in EFA to, in most cases, teachers’ training
• And what would be the impact of Education First?

3. What has changed?
• Many programmes/projects/activities have taken and are taking place
• Progress has been registered in primary schooling and gender equity
• The United Nations’ Education For All (EFA) initiative is coming to an end
in 2015
• But, according to the latest Global Monitoring Report (GMR), the 6 set
objectives will not be met by 2015
• In some places, progress is receiding
• Education is not as high on the global agenda as it used to be (reason for
the Education First Initiative)
• Necessity to evaluate what has/is done to be able to amend, scale-
up, think differently
• Growing need for evidence-based data at both local and international
levels
• Higher education included in Ministers ’ Statement for the first time
(GEM, 2012)

4. Why higher education?
• The higher education sector as a sector and in all its missions
has not systematically been involved in EFA until now
• This does not include teachers’ training and individual
consultancies
• To reach the EFA goals all the three primary missions
(teaching; research and community service) of higher
education institutions can be of help
• The higher education sector is generally not aware of the
initiative, issues at stake, and how to proceed to help
• The higher education sector will be or is already, impacted by:
• A growing number of secondary-school graduates;
• The quality of pre-higher education schooling;
• Reforms of teacher education

5. What are IAU’s objectives?
• To raise awareness of EFA within the higher education sector
• To increase the level of involvement of the higher education
sector in EFA-related issues and in all three HE missions (not
only teachers’ training)
• To improve the visibility of higher education’s role and
activities in/for EFA within and outside the higher education
sector, locally and internationally
• To create a higher education community for EFA
• To help reach EFA
• To help the higher education sector deal with the impact of
EFA : enrolment, quality, bogus universities, rankings,
employment, brain drain, etc…
• Reflect and share its position on the post-2015 agenda

6. Visual for IAU Project
All age groups are offered and enjoy the possibility of education

7. What is the project doing?
• Community Building
• Starting from an enlarged Reference Group based on a call for
participation, the development of a community of higher
education for EFA and its associated tools (blog, facebook
wall, tweets) and services (Q/A, meetings) is sought;
• The HEEFA Portal aims to be the main-entry point for data
collection and information on higher education
projects, publications (in particular theses) and experts for EFA.
www.heefa.net
• Published on a quarterly-basis, the HEEFA Newsletter reaches
over 800 subscribers,.

8. Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Regions as represented within the Reference Group
Voluntary focus on Africa and all regions represented
+ 2 persons from IAU

9. Name Position University Country IAU EFA priority
Organisation member
Africa
Gono, Semukeliso Director Women's University in Africa Zimbabwe YES Goal 5
Mbegnouga, Moussa Graduate student Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Senegal YES Goal 6
Milanzi, Montanus C. Associate Professor Mzumbe University Tanzania Goal 6
Mugenda, Olive, Chair Vice-Chancellor Kenyatta University Kenya YES Goal 5
Mutimucuio, Inocente V. Dean Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique YES Goal 2
Nakabugo, Mary Goretti Senior Lecturer University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Goal 6
Wambui Gichuhi, Loise P. Professor University of Nairobi Kenya Goal 3
Sena Lamptey, Alice Programme Coordinator WGHE (ADEA) Africa All
Shabani, Juma Director Cluster Office, UNESCO Africa All
Eliya Nsapato, Limbani Policy/Advocacy Manager Africa Network Campaign for EFA Africa Goal 2
Americas
Chao Barona, Alejandro Director Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos Mexico Goal 4
Cummings, William Professor George Washington University USA YES Goal 6
Greenlaw, Jim Dean University of Ontario Institute of Technology Canada Goal 2
Jimerson, Shane R. Professor University of California, Santa Barbara USA Goal 2
Tessler, Leandro R. Director International Relations, UNICAMP Brazil YES Goal 2
Trouillot, Jocelyne President Université Caraïbe Haiti YES Goal 4
Asia
Azman, Norzaini Associate Professor University Kebangsaan Malaysia/IPPTN Malaysia YES Goal 3
Paez, Di Project Manager University of Southern Queensland Australia Goal 3
Sharma, Neerja Vice-principal Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi India YES Goal 1
Pant, Bijan Policy Analyst Institute of Public Policy Action Research Nepal Goal 5
Europe
Ilie, Cornelia Professor Malmo University Sweden Goal 4
Macfarlane, Ian G. Senior Education Specialist Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands Goal 2
Mendes, Valtencir M Research Fellow Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain YES Goal 2
Russell, Terry Professor and Director CRPST, University of Liverpool UK YES Goal 2
Boeren, Ad Senior Policy Advisor Nuffic Netherlands All
Turner-Cmuchal, Marcella Policy Officer European Agency for Development EU Goal 3
EFA Goals as represented in the Reference Group
Other research themes include: education in emergencies; school psychology; affirmative
action; educational policies; curriculum development; teachers’ training; etc.

10. What is the project doing?
• Commitment Building
• Development of a commonly agreed upon project by
representatives of the higher education sector from all regions of
the world (Maputo Seminar and Paris Conference)
• A charter or equivalent document will be developed to guide
higher education’s commitment and activities to advance higher
education participation in support of EFA. It will serve as a
working document for the Group and a charter model for higher
education institutions, a sign/logo will be developed to identify
HEIs for EFA;
• Follow-up activities will be developed to build on the results from
the capacity building activities as well as the launch of discussions
and search for commitment on pre and post 2015 EFA
agenda/proposals.

11. Experts’ Seminar, Maputo, Mozambique
30 participants

12. Innovation Conference, Paris, France
60 participants

13. What is the project doing?
• Capacity Building
• A three-step collaborative workshop was developed :
• to inform both the higher education community of what EFA is and
the other EFA stakeholders of what higher education can bring to
EFA,
• to subsequently identify local needs and higher education’s possible
intervention(s), and
• to end with a commonly agreed upon document for a way forward.

14. What is the project doing?
• IAU’s capacity building approach to involving the higher education
sector in EFA is:
• Participant-centred
• Questionnaire/Workshops with IAU intervening only as facilitator
• Inclusive
• All EFA stakeholders at the national level are invited
• Based on Dialogue
• Mixed groups including every categories of stakeholders + HEIs
• Commonly agreed-upon way forward
• Result-focused
• All activities leading/aiming at the validation of a way forward
• Embedded in a process
• Pre and post-workshop activities
• Local but not closed
• With experts from other regions

15. Cuernavaca, Mexico
100 participants, A Declaration, Several Groups of reflexion/action created, An annual
meeting planned and taking place

16. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
40 participants, Recommendations to Ministers, Follow-up workshop to be organized

17. Main Results to Date
• Growing awareness of the need to more systematically involve higher
education institutions at local, regional and international levels
• Invitation to IAU to participate in EFA High Level Meeting in Jomtien, Thailand
in 2011.
• IAU sits on the Coordination Group of UNESCO Collective Consultation of
NGOs for EFA for two years satrting in 2012
• IAU’s General Conference (Puerto Rico, November 2012) addressed: Higher
Education and the Global Agenda
• Growing community of higher education for EFA
• IAU call for participation in the Reference Group
• Follow-up of capacity building sessions are taking place
• Mexico: Action plan taken up by Mexican governement
• Burkina Faso: Considering the possibility of a follow-up session
• But there is still:
• A lack of information (HEEFA portal quite empty, difficulty to know who is
doing what and where)
• Need for evidence-based data to evaluate progress to date and consider
possible ways forward

18. Africa
Kenya: University of Nairobi
• Project: Education in Emergencies Specialization Programme
• Keywords: Training Programme; Emergencies; Education
• Objectives:
• Build capacities of students, faculty, and practitionners to
respond to the educational needs of children and youth affected
by crisis in East Africa and beyond
• Document, stock and share practices and policy innovations with
the larger education in emergencies community
• Establish the University of Nairobi as a hub of expertise in East
Africa in the field

19. Americas
Mexico: Universidad Pedagogica Nacional
• Project: Intercultural Bilingual Urban School
• Keywords: Bilingual education; Culturally-sensitive education;
Urban schools; Indigenous populations
• Objectives:
• Preserve and make the most of local indigenous cultures;
• Ensure quality education to children from indigenous populations
• Ensure access for and improve success of children from
indigenous populations
• Serve as a practicum school for research projects

20. Working with Indigenous Communities
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Cuernavaca

21. Arab States
Lebanon: Balamand University
• Project: University Students for Literacy
• Keywords: Adult Literacy; Health
• Objectives:
• Provide mothers and young men in rural areas with the
opportunity to acquire reading and writing skills
• Break the link between illiteracy, poverty and poor health
• Teach students how to become responsible citizens by
participating in the development of their community
• Create a bridge between the university and the community;
between urban and rural areas; men and women

22. Asia
Pakistan : Fatimah Jinnah Women University
• Project: Community Radio VOW
• Keywords: Radio; Training Courses; Women Empowerment
• Objectives:
• Produce and transmit news and informative programmes on
women’s issues
• Broadcast distance learning programmes

23. Europe
Germany : Universität Hildesheim
• Project: Men in Primary and Pre-Primary Schools (Thesis)
• Keywords: Gender; Primary Schools; Early Childhood
Education
• Objectives:
• Propose solutions to the issue of the lack of male teachers in pre-
primary and primary schools
• Research the implications of a totally female-guided pre-primary
and primary school education

24. Expectations
• The capacity building model developed for encouraging more
interactions between the traditional EFA stakeholders and the
HE sector is widely taken up as such or adapted;
• Information on HE projects and research results is made
available and accessible to all
• Research on pre and post-2015 issues is developing
• Higher education institutions are given the means to better
interact with the other EFA stakeholders
• HE institutions’ possible role in EFA is recognised and valued
• The community of HE for EFA is expanding
• More EFA goals are reached
• The HE sector is prepared for EFA knock-on effects

25. Today’s Workshop
Objective: Participants: All local EFA
Envisioning a global initiative stakeholders
(EFA) locally (Kenya) (universities; Ministry;
schools; students; NGOs;
UNESCO)
Cuernavaca, Mexico - 25-26 May
2010
Previous sessions:
Universidad Autonoma del Aim: To collectively explore
Estado de and develop a concrete
Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexi tool to strengthen higher
co ; education participation
Université de in EFA at the local level.
Ouagadougou, Burkina
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Tribhuvan University, Nepal

26. Today’s Workshop
First Day (morning First Day (afternoon
session): session)
- Learn more on the global - Questionnaire
Cuernavaca, Mexico - 25-26 May
2010
EFA initiative and IAU - Presentation of the
Project on linkages HEEFA Portal and
between HE and EFA hands-on session
- Get feedback on its local
implementation from all
stakeholders including
HEIs
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27. Today’s Workshop
2nd day - Discussion on and
- Validation of the results drafting of a way forward
of the Discussion groups - What are the key strategies
to be put in place to
- This will provide improve HE’s role in EFA?
Cuernavaca, Mexico - 25-26 May
2010
information on which - Which principles, products,
fields/topics should be structures should be put in
addressed first place to mobilize, develop,
utilize, maintain, retain HE
involvement in EFA?
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28. Today’s Workshop
2nd day Pre-validated answers:
3 groups: the group you Green
should join has been Pre-rejected answers: Red
indicated to you upon Answers to be discussed
Cuernavaca, Mexico - 25-26 May
2010
registration (and moved to the green
3 topics (research; or red section): Yellow
teaching/learning; Each group will be
community service); informed of and allowed
3 rounds: Each group will to discuss and change
attend the 3 workshops the choices made by the
in turn preceeding other groups.
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29. IAU
• IAU is a Membership organization. It has
institutional, organisational, and affiliates members in 120 countries
• IAU Secretariat is located in Paris, France. It has been hosted by
UNESCO since its creation (1950)
• IAU serves the higher education community worldwide and defends
academic values
• IAU promotes knowledge sharing, collaboration and solidarity
through projects, statements, conferences, reference and scientific
publications, and services.
• IAU functions with 15 permanent staff members, an elected Board
composed of 22 persons and an Executive Committee composed of
6 persons, both with equitable regional/gender representation, plus
all its Members on a voluntary basis
More at: www.iau-aiu.net
My contact: i.turmaine@iau-aiu.net