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  Ensuring Home-Based Education in African Member States in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 07/10/2025

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  This report by ADEA, published by WATHI, reviews how twelve African countries ensured learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. With schools c...

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  Country : Burkina Faso , Ivory Coste , Ghana

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Ensuring Home-Based Education in African Member States in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 07/10/2025
Summary :
This report by ADEA, published by WATHI, reviews how twelve African countries ensured learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. With schools closed, governments implemented emergency measures such as radio and TV lessons, and online platforms like Zoom, Google Classroom, and WhatsApp. Despite these efforts, challenges remained—limited infrastructure, unequal access, and insufficient inclusion of vulnerable learners. Some countries, including Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, and South Africa, developed specific initiatives to reduce educational disparities. The report highlights the importance of investing in distance education, fostering collaboration between public and private sectors, and building national expertise to ensure educational resilience during crises.
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Governance, Inequality, Education, Politique publique, Santé publique, Inclusion
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  Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Globalization and Education in West Africa 15/09/2025

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  The article Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Globalization and Education in West Africa (a virtual dialogue organized by the citizen think tank ...

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  Country : Burkina Faso , Mali , Senegal , Benin , Ivory Coste , Ghana

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Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Globalization and Education in West Africa 15/09/2025
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The article Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Globalization and Education in West Africa (a virtual dialogue organized by the citizen think tank WATHI) discusses how technological transformations — especially artificial intelligence (AI) — and globalization influence educational systems in West Africa. Although access to education has improved, considerable challenges remain: about 97.5 million children still out of school across Africa, low enrollment rates, vulnerabilities of the education systems in crisis situations (such as during the COVID-19 pandemic), lack of access to digital pedagogic tools, and insufficient teacher preparation for integrating these technologies. The article highlights that AI can offer opportunities like personalized learning, support for students in remote or disadvantaged areas, but implementation is hampered by infrastructural inequalities, limited resources, gaps in educator training, and political commitment that is still inadequate.
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Governance, Inequality, Education, Intelligence artificielle
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  Artificial Intelligence and the All-Too-Real Slowdown in Human Development Progress 08/07/2025

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  The WATHI podcast discusses a UNDP report highlighting an unprecedented slowdown in human development progress since 2020, worsened by the COVID-19 pa...

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  Country : Burkina Faso , Chad , Gambia , Mali , Niger , Nigeria , Senegal , Benin , Ivory Coste , Togo , Ghana , Guinea-Bissau , Cape Verde

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Artificial Intelligence and the All-Too-Real Slowdown in Human Development Progress 08/07/2025
Summary :
The WATHI podcast discusses a UNDP report highlighting an unprecedented slowdown in human development progress since 2020, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. It points out that only two African countries—the Seychelles and Mauritius—rank in the very high Human Development Index (HDI) category, while eight others (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa, Gabon, Botswana, Libya, and Morocco) fall into the high HDI group. Meanwhile, 22 African nations are in the low HDI category, with Chad, the Central African Republic, Somalia, and South Sudan at the very bottom. The podcast also considers the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in this context: a potential driver of progress, yet part of a complex debate on whether it can help reverse the current slowdown.
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Inequality, Education, Politique publique, Intelligence artificielle, Human Development Index
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  Ghana’s basic education infrastructure: progress, gaps and strategies towards 2030 08/08/2025

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  The April 2025 policy brief by Africa Education Watch, authored by Kofi Asare, reviews Ghana’s basic education infrastructure. Despite significant enr...

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  Country : Ghana

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Ghana’s basic education infrastructure: progress, gaps and strategies towards 2030 08/08/2025
Summary :
The April 2025 policy brief by Africa Education Watch, authored by Kofi Asare, reviews Ghana’s basic education infrastructure. Despite significant enrolment growth since 2001, about 1 million children remain out of school, including 400,000 dropouts. Key deficits include school buildings, furniture (40% of pupils lacked desks in 2021, rising to 80% in some regions), electricity, and digital infrastructure (only 2% of basic schools in deprived districts have functional ICT facilities). To meet SDG 4 targets by 2030, Ghana needs around 2,000 fully furnished basic schools, 3,600 junior high schools, 508 kindergartens, to replace 5,300 makeshift schools, and supply 800,000 desks. Estimated cost: USD 2 billion. Budgetary constraints and declining donor support necessitate innovative financing, climate-resilient building technologies, community-led furniture initiatives, and targeted interventions for underserved communities.
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Governance, Inequality, Education, Infrastructures scolaires, Funding
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