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AAU ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 SUMMARY OF 2007/08 ACTIVITIES During the period May 2007 to June 2008, new programmes were introduced, however, Institutional Collaboration in Higher Education, Leadership and Management, ICT and Special Issues were the broad areas that the Association developed and implemented programmes and activities. This was in accordance with the work plan based on the Strategic Plan 2003 2010 and the Core th Programme 2005 2009, which was approved by the Executive Board at its 64 Meeting in June 2007. This Report summarises programme implementation over the period May 2007 to June 2008. NEW PROGRAMMES The Mobilising Regional Capacity Initiative The Mobilizing Regional Capacity Initiative (MRCI) is a new four-year programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) of United Kingdom within the broad frame of the African Union's Plan of Action for the Second Decade of Education for Africa. The overall objective of the MRCI is to help higher education in Africa to act as a catalyst for poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) within the framework of African Union's Plan of Action for the Second Decade of Education for Africa. At the centre of the MRCI is a Challenge Fund for the strengthening of partnerships between the AAU and regional and national bodies representing higher education institutions in Africa, as part of the drive for poverty eradication. During the reporting year, the following took place for the start off of the Programme: 1 • A six-member Programme Steering Committee (PSC) was established in October 2007. • A two-member team was selected to review proposals in the pilot phase of Programme. • The first meeting of the PSC took place on December 12, 2007 and was attended by representatives of DFID and African regional higher education institutions. The following recommendations were made during the meeting: o Guidelines for submission of proposals needed to be developed. o A mapping exercise of all five regions of Africa to identify potential regional partners for collaboration in the implementation of MRCI Programme needed to be undertaken. o A Programme Coordinator for the MRCI Programme had to be appointed. o A capacity building workshop for regional higher education organisations had to be organised. A pilot phase of Programme was launched on December 13, 2007 to kick start implementation before the end of DFID's budget year in March 2008. To this effect, a call for proposals yielded four responses from the Southern African Regional Universities Associations (SARUA), the Inter-University Council of Eastern Africa (IUCEA), Higher Polytechnic Institute of GAZA (Mozambique), and Catholique University of Mozambique, Faculty of Economics and Administration (Mozambique). The SARUA proposal on Mainstreaming Higher Education for National and Regional Development was recommended by the selection panel and approved by the PSC for a grant award. The mapping exercise commissioned on the recommendation of the PSC, was to identify specific regional structures to serve as nodal points for the development, processing and oversight of research projects. The exercise was limited to Central, Northern and Western Africa, which did not have identifiable regional higher education organisations (RHEOs). Two studies were envisioned for West Africa - one each for Anglophone and Francophone West Africa, because of differences in the organization of higher education bodies in the two linguistic regions. A call for proposals for first cycle of Challenge Fund faced some challenges, because of absence of regional higher education organisations in some regions. It was, therefore, decided that the AAU Secretariat receive and process applications from those areas, while applications from Eastern and Southern Africa be channelled through IUCEA and Southern African Regional UA. 1 Akilagpa SAWYERR, Secretary-General, Association of African Universities Sammy B. CHUMBOW, Former Rector, Université de Yaoundé I Faisal ELHAG, Association of Arab Universities Beatrice NJENGA, African Union 8 Everett STANDA, Commission for Higher Education 9 Jean TCHOUGBE, Agence Universitaire Francophonie AAU ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008
Professor Olusola Oyewole, former Project Officer for AAU Quality Assurance Programme was appointed coordinator for the MRCI Programme in March 2008. INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AAU ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 Leadership and Management Leadership Development Workshop The Leadership Development Workshop (LEDEV) series under the Leadership in Higher Education component of the AAU Capacity Development Project for the Revitalisation of African Higher Education Institutions (AAU-CADRE) is a follow-up to AAU's Senior University Management Workshop (SUMA) series, which was running between 1991 2002. The objective of the SUMA series was to equip African university leadership with managerial skills. The SUMA workshops dealt broadly with issues of policy, funding, leadership and management. Later, the SUMA series was split into two separate components - Leadership Development (Ledev) and Management Development (MADEV) to reflect the unique training needs of the two aspects. AAU ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 The MRCI Launch in Accra, Ghana, December 2007 The Association of African Universities - Capacity Development Project for the Revitalisation of African Higher Education Institutions The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) launched a Capacity Development Project for the Revitalisation of African Higher Education Institutions (AAU-CADRE). This took place during the Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-chancellors (COREVIP) organised in collaboration of the Khadafi Foundation in Tripoli, Libya in October 2007. LEDEV Workshop, which is targeted at newly appointed Rectors, Vice-Rectors, Vice- Chancellors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors of public and private institutions, as well as Council members, heads of national and regional accreditation agencies, among others has the objective of equipping African university leadership with managerial skills. During the year under review, the first LEDEV Workshop - LEDEV I was held in Windhoek, Namibia, from August 13 to 25, 2007. In all, there were 39 participants (one Pro-Vice Chancellor, eight Vice-Chancellors and Rectors, seven Pro and Deputy Vice-Chancellors, and 23 other leaders of higher education institutions and agencies) from 11 countries in Africa, namely; Botswana; Ghana; Kenya; Lesotho; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; South Africa; Swaziland; Zambia; and Zimbabwe. The AAU-CADRE is being funded by the ACBF with an amount of US $2.8 million over a four-year period. The AAU-CADRE Project is geared towards assisting the AAU to fulfil its mission of assisting its members to build capacity to perform their core functions of teaching, research and community engagement. The Project is, therefore, a unique collaboration for both the ACBF and the AAU to make a significant contribution to higher education in Africa. 10 11
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