Projects
At the continental level QUEST supported the
UNESCO
-sponsored
Association for the Development of Education in Africa
(ADEA) as well as the Forum for African Women Educationalists
(FAWE).
ADEA is a network of partners promoting the development of effective education policies based on African
leadership and ownership. The ADEA network covers African Ministries of Education, Development agencies,
Education specialists & researchers, and NGOs active in education. Also, it covers their mission to develop
consensus on policy issues facing education in Africa; reinforce African Ministries' capacities to develop,
manage and implement education policies; and to promote nationally-driven education policies, projects and programs.
FAWE is a pan-African women's organization whose sole mandate is to advocate for girls' education
and whose influential membership is made up of government policy makers, senior academicians,
practitioners and civil society. FAWE is evolving a number of models for working with government
policy makers and NGOs and for documenting and disseminating lessons on good practice and successful
initiatives through its extensive infrastructure and network for advocacy for girls' access spearheaded by
its National Chapters now in place in 33 African countries. Its main goal is 'to increase access and
retention as well as improve the quality of education for all girls within the school system, and for
women in universities'.
The continental work of QUEST was complemented by the focus on three countries -
Kenya, Uganda and
Zimbabwe. The country focus allows a deeper, 'on-the-ground' exploration of the key concerns of QUEST
through research, demonstration or experimentation projects.
The country research pages below guides you about the QUEST focus countries and the project's host
institutions. You will also be able to meet the people who led QUEST programme at a country level of
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Kenya country page
- Uganda country page
- Zimbabwe country page
Support was also provided to the
FAWE Ghana chapter to provide cross learning to the FAWE national chapters
in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe and to assist in capacity building in order to disseminate the results of the
in-depth work on literacy and sexual maturation arising out of their countries' experiences.
The FAWE Ghana chapter seeks to support the education of girls and women by undertaking research into ways to minimizing the
problems militating against the improved participation of girls in education. Research results are
circulated amongst various stake-holders in education to elicit and solicit interventions to deal with
identified problems.