Sub-regional Orientation Workshop of Education for All Mid-Decade Assessment

20 February 2007

UNESCO Bangkok and UNESCO Almaty Offices jointly with Educational Centre BILIM in Almaty organized a sub-regional training workshop on the EFA Mid Decade Assessment (MDA) in Almaty from 5-9 February, 2007



The main goal of the workshop was to facilitate the preparation of the National EFA MDA report, through training in:

  • collecting and analyzing statistical information;
  • conceiving the content of the national report;
  • organizing the inputs to and implementing the EFA MDA report;

Experts from the UNESCO Bangkok Office and UNICEF led the training sessions.

Country delegations consisting of a National EFA Coordinator, an education statistician and a coordinator-analyst from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia participated in the workshop.




Day 1 - Overview and Orientation: The general assessment of disparities in quantity and quality across geographical, gender and social diversit

Opening Ceremony - Tarja Virtanen, Head of UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office
Participant Introductions - Head of National Delegations
Presentation of Agenda - Inna Melnikova, Education Specialist, UNESCO Almaty
Outline of National Report, Policy and Data Analyses and Workshop Procedure - Ko-Chih Tung, UIS Regional Advisor for Asia and Pacific/Head of AIMS Unit, UNESCO Bangkok
National EFA MDA objectives, strategies and organization - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
MDA organization: structure and function - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
Daily theme and work activities - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
MDA Workshop Modality - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok



Presentation, discussion and adoption of proposed EFA MDA Report Outline
MDA National Report Suggested Outline
Introduction to Policy Analysis



Day 2 - Universal Primary Education: Assessment of disparities in social and gender equality and quality in UBE

UPE MDA Basic Concepts - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
UPE MDA Guidelines - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok



Day 3 - Early Childhood - Assessment of disparities in social and gender equality and quality in ECCE

ECCE Plenary Presentation 1 - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
ECCE Plenary Presentation 2 - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
Introduction to DevInfo

DevInfo reveiw - Mukhtar Minbaev, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer UNICEF, Kyrgyz Republic
MICS Globally and in CEE/CIS - Mukhtar Minbaev, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer UNICEF, Kyrgyz Republic
DevInfo. Indicators for global reporting - Mukhtar Minbaev, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer UNICEF, Kyrgyz Republic




Day 4 - Skills and Literacy: Assessment of disparities in quantity and quality in Skills and Literacy

EFA Mid-Decade Assessment - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok
UNICEF. Assessing Lifeskills - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok



Day 5 - Synthesis assessment of cross-cutting themes, final country presentations

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