Refugees Education Framework for Inclusion and Acess to Higher and Tertiary Education in Africa (REFINE)

Date: 14th August 2024 Time: 08:30-12:30 CAT

Venue: Hotel TBC, Windhoek, Namibia

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Contacts: Prof. Patrick Okori (p.okori@ruforum.org)

Concept Note: Download Concept Paper

Session Chair: Prof Aldo Stroebel, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Innovation and Internationalisation, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa

Time

Agenda item

Responsible party

08:30-08:40

Arrival and registration

Local Organizing Committee

08:40- 08:50

Welcome Remarks 

RUFORUM- Board Chair Prof Theresia Nkuo Akenji.

08:50-09:00

Welcome Remarks

Dr. Itah Kandjii-Murangi, Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, Namibia.

09:00-09:10

Welcome Remarks

H.E. Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, Commissioner – Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, AUC

09:10- 09:40

Lead paper: The excluded next generation: Towards inclusion and access to higher and Tertiary education by Africa’s young refugees.

RUFORUM/Worldwide University Network

09:40 - 10:00

Discussion  

Moderator

10:00-10:30

HEALTH BREAK

 

10:30- 11:00

Fire-side chart: Experiences from countries affected by conflicts

·         East and Central Africa: DRC, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda

·         West and Central Africa - Mali, Chad, Cameroon

·         Southern Africa: Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia

Moderator: Prof Aldo Stroebel

11:00-11:50

Fire-side chart: Investments, partnerships and implementation frameworks

·      Karen Mayer, Mastercard Foundation

·      European Union Intra Africa Mobility

·      US Agency for International Development (USAID),

·      Hendrina Chalwe, AfDB

·      BADEA

·      UNESCO-UNHCR

Prof Aldo Stroebel

11:50- 12:20

 

Director ESTI, AUC processes: Presentation AUC processes for development of continental initiatives

Discussions and implementation imperatives

Prof Aldo Stroebel

12:20-12:30

Meeting closure and Health Break

All

 

 

 

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