AFRICAN COUNTRIES AGREE ON A ROADMAP TO STRENGTHEN EDUCATION ON THE CONTINENT

States Parties to the Addis Recognition Convention for Africa came together for the first Convention Committee meeting since the treaty’s entry into force in 2019, to exchange experiences and set out a roadmap to support its implementation over the next two years. The meeting took place on 9 and 10 December 2021 in Lomé and online, hosted by Togo.

To strengthen recognition, mobility and inter-university cooperation in Africa, States Parties agreed to give particular attention to the creation and empowerment of quality assurance mechanisms, which are lacking in some countries, as well as to establish appropriate procedures and tools to facilitate recognition for refugees and internally displaces persons. The establishment of an African network of national implementation structures will be one of the main undertakings for the Bureau in the next two years, composed of Togo as President, Congo and Gambia as Vice Presidents and Mauritius as Rapporteur.