Ghana to host 2025 ADEA triennial on education
Ghana has been selected to host the 2025 Triennale on Education and Training of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
The event is one of Africa’s most influential forums for policy dialogue, attracting leaders and stakeholders to share best practices, innovations and evidence-based strategies for improving education across the continent.
The conference, which is scheduled to take place from October 29 to 30, is expected to bring together over 350 participants, including more than 30 African ministers of education and high-level representatives from international development partners such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, UNESCO, the Gates Foundation, the Mastercard
Foundation and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
Also expected to attend are senior policymakers, education experts, researchers and academics, who will share knowledge and evidence on groundbreaking innovations to transform education systems across Africa.
The event will be held on the theme: “Strengthening the resilience of Africa’s educational systems: Advancing towards ending learning poverty by 2035, with a well-educated and skilled workforce for the continent and beyond.”
The platform
The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, who announced this in Accra last Tuesday, said the event would provide a crucial platform for Africa to interrogate strategies for enhancing foundational learning, leveraging technology and data to improve learning outcomes, and advancing technical and higher education.
He emphasised that the country was determined to position itself as a leader in educational innovation and reform, and would use the platform to showcase national progress in improving access, infrastructure and quality learning outcomes.
Partnerships, opportunities
According to Mr Iddrisu, the Triennale would promote peer learning, partnership building and knowledge exchange among African countries and global education actors.
“The event will provide an opportunity for participants to form partnerships that will accelerate learning outcomes for millions of African children and commit to concrete actions,” he said.
He added that the country, with support from the World Bank and the Global Partnership for Education, had made significant progress in reducing the number of out-of-school children and would share its experiences with other African nations.
“Ghana shares ADEA’s vision of ending learning poverty by 2035. We are committed to this goal, and that means we must be aggressive in expanding infrastructure and improving the quality provision of education across the country,” the minister affirmed.
