KIX Africa 21

Hub Overview

A key component of KIX is a knowledge sharing and exchange function, where country representatives come together to share information, innovation, and best practices related to education policy and programming and to inform knowledge gaps and policy priorities. Four regional hubs act as knowledge brokering units for KIX. This page provides information on the hub that primarily oversees activities in West and Central Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Consortia:

Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation

Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation des États et gouvernements de la Francophonie

Agence universitaire de la Francophonie

Region:

West and Central Africa and Indian Ocean

Countries:

Benin,

Burkina Faso,

Burundi,

Cabo Verde,

Cameroon,

Central African Republic,

Chad,

Comoros,

Côte d’Ivoire,

Democratic Republic of the Congo,

Djibouti,

Guinea-Bissau,

Guinea,

Madagascar,

Mali,

Mauritania,

Niger,

Republic of Congo,

Senegal,

Togo,

Sao Tome and Principe

About the Hub

The KIX Africa 21 hub brings together countries that share common educational and linguistic history, geography, and environmental characteristics, in addition to similar socioeconomic challenges. The Africa 21 hub facilitates cross-country knowledge exchange and mobilization, learning, synthesis, and collaboration among national education stakeholders in Global Partnership for Education partner countries primarily located in West and Central Africa and the Indian Ocean. The hub functions as a regional forum within KIX.

KIX Africa 21 manages the hub that oversees activities in 21 Global Partnership for Education partner countries, primarily in West and Central Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a consortium comprised of three organizations:

Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation (IFEF), which contributes to the development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of national education policies. IFEF facilitates capacity-building activities for actors in the education sector and strengthens the capacities of governments and partners to improve the quality of French-language education programs in member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation des États et gouvernements de la Francophonie, which are biennial ministerial meetings that aim to guide the development of educational policies in member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
L’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), which is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions that supports cooperation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and other academic institutions. The AUF has 944 members located throughout Francophone countries, made up of public and private universities, institutes of higher education, research centres and institutions, institutional networks, and networks of university administrators.

Approach

The hub provides a platform where educational innovations and knowledge on access, equity, and quality of education will be analyzed. Key lessons will be drawn to develop effective policies and programming that will address these challenges. Among other important issues, the hub will focus on mitigating the effects of conflict on education systems and facilitating the exchange of experiences, best practices, and tools in this area. A systemic approach will be applied that includes

Fostering regional knowledge exchange and building the capacity of hub members to identify, use, share, and mobilize evidence within priority policy challenges.
Producing and disseminating relevant knowledge and evidence syntheses to relevant actors.

Advancing effective regional mobilization and knowledge and evidence uptake.

About the Region

Educational development is a top economic and social development priority in most of the region, which includes many of Africa’s least developed countries. However, universal access to education and gender equality remain significant challenges within their education systems. Globally, this region accounts for one-third of primary school aged children who are out of school and one-fifth of lower secondary aged children who are out of school. Children’s abandonment of school is of particular concern in the nine countries that cross the Sahel region, where armed conflicts have resulted in major population displacements