UNESCO-IICBA

The Executive Committee of the Governing Board of UNESCO-IICBA held its regular meeting on May 4, 2012 in Addis Ababa.

The Director of IICBA, Mr. Arnaldo Nhavoto, presented the progress report of programme implementation for the four months between January to April 2012.  The meeting also discussed the work plans for 2012, and approved all of them after careful consideration.  The Institute’s financial report was also presented for the meeting by the administrative assistant.

30 April 2012 - EXPERTS OF AFAR AND BENISHANUL GUMUZ EDUCATION BUREAU WERE PRESENT AT A CONSULTATIVE MEETING ORGANIZED BY UNESCO-IICBA TO DISCUSS THE MODALITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT ON GRILS EDUCATION IN THE TWO REGIONS RECENTLY LAUNCHED.

The State Minister of Education of the Government of Ethiopia, Mr. Fuad Ibrahim, the Ambassador of the Government of Italy to Ethiopia, Mr. Enzo Mario Rosso, and the Director of UNESCO's International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA), Mr. Arnaldo Nhavoto, met on 3 April 2012, for the Signing ceremony of the Plan of Operation of the Project "Retaining Girls in Lower Secondary Schools and Increasing their Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia".

A two-day planning workshop that brought together high level experts on curriculum and programme design from within and outside of UNESCO was conducted at IICBA HQ in Addis Ababa on 19-20 March 2012.

UNESCO-IICBA conducted training for IT teachers of the Menelik II Preparatory School for Higher Education, from January 30 to February 3, 2012, in Addis Ababa. The five days training consisted two components, which are Image Processing and Website Development for educational purposes.

This training is a continuation of the Microsoft Literacy training conducted in September, 2011, at the request of the school.

IICBA’s Governing Board held its 13th Annual Meeting in Addis Ababa, on 25- 26, November 2011.

IICBA participated in the sixth annual African Economic Conference held from 26 to 28 October, 2011, in Addis Ababa.  The theme of this year was “Green Economy and Structural Transformation in Africa.” The Conference was co-organised by the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). 

UNESCO - International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa organized training workshop on Skills Development for Enhanced girls’ participation in SMTE in Cape Town South Africa from 19 – 23 September 2011.

The Cape Town workshop was one of the series of workshops mapped out as IICBA’s intervention at school level to assist with the elimination of gender disparity at all levels with particular focus on SMTE in order to reach the millennium development goals of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2015.