A Memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the AUC and the means Africa Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA)

Addis Ababa, 16 July 2013- A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the AUC and the means Africa Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA). ANCEFA is a Pan African civil society campaign education network , with a mission to promote, enable and build the capacity of African civil society to advocate and campaign for access to free, quality and relevant education for all. The network is based in Dakar, but with Program Offices in Nairobi, Lusaka, and Lome. It works with national education coalitions from at least 35 countries across Africa and cooperates with like-minded regional, continental and international organizations in advancing the right to education on the continent.

ANCEFA’s program priorities include advocating for increased education financing for quality inclusive education, promoting national accountability, advocating for quality teaching and learning, and building the institutional capacity of its various structures including staff and board to enhance policy engagement.

Recognizing the mutual interests of  the Commission and ANCEFA especially  those related to the right to education at national, regional and continental levels, and promoting the implementation of the plan of action for the African Union Second Education Decade for Africa (2006-2015), particularly in the thematic areas of Gender and Culture, Education Management Information System, Teacher development, Technical Vocational and Training (TEVET), Curriculum and Teaching and learning Material, Quality Management, and Early Childhood development (ECD) as being critical for achieving the collective African Union vision the two Parties have signed an MOU.

The objective of the MOU is for the Parties to create a working partnership to enable them pursue collaborative activities and projects that will assist in promoting the right to education in general and in particular, in supporting the implementation of the African Union Second Decade on Education for Africa plan of action (2006-2015), and other continental frameworks developed by the AUC