MOJA

Building food systems is becoming increasingly important and raises important questions about the role of adult educators. The Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training (CIPSET) at the Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa is currently running a series of Community Food Systems.

Susan Nakacwa is the speaker at this upcoming event. Susan joined GRAIN, an international non-profit organisation. in 2017 after working with several regional civil society organisations on the African continent. A journalist by training, her passion lies in researching, documenting and making the case for smallholder farming in Africa. Based in Kampala, Uganda, Susan works with GRAIN partners across the continent, especially on issues related to seeds, land grabs and trade policy.

Date: 12 May 2021

Time: 16:30 (CAT)

RSVP to siyabulelam@mandela.ac.za

Zoom details: ID:999 3598 8869 Pass Code: 189406

On 9 June 2021, the UNESCO Regional Office in Harare and the UNESCO Regional Office in Nairobi, in cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), will host the sub-regional preparatory consultation for the seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) for the region Southern Africa online. Representatives from Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe will come together to discuss innovations, challenges and forward-looking strategies to renew policies and action in youth and adult learning and education. Outcomes will feed into the CONFINTEA VII Africa Regional Conference and, ultimately, CONFINTEA VII itself, which will take place in 2022.

The Kingdom of Morocco is set to host CONFINTEA VII, which will welcome over 1,000 participants and examine effective adult learning and education policies within a lifelong learning perspective and within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participants will jointly work on a new framework for action that will replace the Belém Framework for Action (BFA), adopted at CONFINTEA VI in 2009.

During CONFINTEA VII, Member States will be encouraged to enact policies, learning incentives, regulatory frameworks, and institutional structures and mechanisms to contribute to a human rights culture, social justice, shared values and sustainable development. In recognition of continuing advancements in artificial intelligence, special attention will be paid to using information and communications technologies to promote access to adult learning and education and inclusion.

Participation

Participants are nominated by the respective National Commissions for UNESCO.

Leave no one behind - Opportunities to build ALE in Africa

(RSVP if you want to attend the meeting to lina.remnert@sverigesfolkhogskolor.se

Purposes of the meeting are:

(i) Reconnecting ALE practitioners with one another

(ii) Exploring opportunities to build ALE in Africa through ’We are ALE’ campaign; Swedish partnerships; Moja Website, Connection to Agenda 2030

(iii) Learning from recent study in Uganda by Dr Salome Awidi on literacy and sustainability amongst refugees

Draft Programme

• Welcome and check in
• Brief introduction to ‘We are ALE’ campaign – Carole Avande-Houndjo, Vice President, ICAE
• Short reports from KTO (Tanzania) and FSO (Sweden)
• Group discussion: how can we work with ‘We are ALE’ campaign
• Report on launch of Moja Africa, an online platform for adult educators in Africa
• Brief presentation ‘Literacy and sustainability amongst refugees’ - Dr Salome Awidi
• Discussion
• Pulling threads together for ways forward - discussion