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The African Union’s Year of Education 2024 is a historic moment to put education back at the forefront of the policy agenda. Now is the time for increased investment in African education systems.  \n\n| Africa’s growing youth population can be a vital and transformative force if given the knowledge and skills to match their potential to the promises and perils already evident. Delivering Africa’s children the education they need to foster a more peaceful, prosperous and stable future requires leaders to: |\n| --- |\n| \u003Cbr> Finance Africa’s education ambition: Establish shared and innovative approaches to close the education financing gap. Budgets should prioritize proven, cost-effective approaches to optimize their impact.\u003Cbr> Build quality, inclusive education systems that begin with crucial foundational learning skills: Prioritizing gender equality, foundational learning, equity and inclusion for every girl and boy.\u003Cbr> Invest in and collaborate with teachers: Teachers play a crucial role in effective education strategies. Supporting them with increased training and structured pedagogy could yield substantial benefits.\u003Cbr> Increase accountability and transparency: Accountability platforms can support translating commitments into actions, track progress and share learnings and experiences across contexts.\u003Cbr> Develop relevant curricula and infrastructure: Support skills for young Africans through curricula and training aligned with job market needs for a smoother transition to the workforce. |\n\nRecognizing the transformative power of education, African leaders have put education front and center of their policies since independence. They set the agenda during the very first  \nOrganization of Africa Unity Summit in 1963, when Emperor Haile Selassie urged the continent to launch a massive effort in education“to raise the level of literacy and provide the cadres of skilled and trained technicians requisite to (our) growth and development.” The African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2016–2025) builds on this theme, setting a path for learning that will transform Africa’s youth into agents of change for sustainable development as envisioned  \nin the Agenda 2063. During the 2022 Africa Human Capital Summit and the UN Transforming Education Summit, leaders acknowledged that investment in education and in people is critical for building sustainable, resilient and inclusive growth in Africa, and they committed to increase investments in education systems.  \nAfrica has made considerable progress in education over the last 60 years. Completion rates in Africa between 2000 and 2022 went from 52 to 69 percent in primary, 35 to 50 percent in lower secondary and 23 to 33 percent in upper secondary education, while the number of tertiary education students has risen from fewer than 800,000 in 1970 to well over 17 million today.1 More girls are in school than ever before.  \nDividends from the sustained commitment to education are growing. Africa hosts some of the fastest-growing economies in the world. From Accra to Nairobi, from Cape Town to Cairo, start-up enterprises, mostly founded and led by Africans under the age of 35,2 are redefining African industry, technology and development. In its 2022 Technology Pioneers list, the World Economic Forum named six African start-ups that are shaping industries.3 Cities such as Lagos, Johannesburg and Nairobi are teeming with entrepreneurs and innovators who are developing homegrown solutions to local challenges, including in education.  \nEducation promotes resilience in the face of new challenges, includingthe growi","cbCaihhnA3NMDBhl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihhnA3NMDBhl","pdf",460137,"English","# EDUCATE AFRICANS FIT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY\n## SEIZING THE MOMENT\n## Transforming education systems for inclusion and resilience\n## Key leadership actions: financing, quality, teachers, accountability, curricula","[{\"question\":\"Why is the African Union’s Year of Education 2024 treated as a historic policy moment?\",\"answer\":\"It is presented as a chance to put education back at the forefront of the policy agenda and to increase investment in African education systems, strengthening inclusive and equitable societies.\"},{\"question\":\"What leadership actions are recommended to improve education outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"The text recommends financing strategies to close funding gaps, building quality inclusive systems based on foundational learning and gender equality, investing in teachers with training and pedagogy, increasing accountability and transparency, and developing relevant curricula and infrastructure aligned with job-market needs.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenges limit African education systems despite progress?\",\"answer\":\"Key constraints include low teacher availability and effectiveness, violence affecting educational outcomes, and large learning and participation gaps, with girls especially disadvantaged and many children still out of school after COVID-19.\"}]","EDUCATE AFRICANS FIT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - SEIZING THE MOMENT - Transforming Education for Inclusive, Equitable Societies | PDF",1792052882]