The AVU participates in two focal UNESCO meetings in April 2011
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The AVU was invited by the Bureau Régional de l'UNESCO pour l'Education en Afrique (UNESCO-BREDA) to take part in the second Teacher Training Initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa (TTISSA) Coordination Committee Meeting and also to the Pan African Conference On Teacher Education and Development (PACTED)), in Lomé, Togo from April 11th to April 15th, 2011. The first meeting coincided with a two day TTISSA capacity building workshop and was an opportunity for the various stakeholders acting in the area of Teacher Education to meet. Both events focused on Teachers' concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in relevance to the move towards Education For All (EFA) by 2015 in the region. Dr. Therrezinha Fernandes, Head of the AVU Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal, represented the AVU at these important meetings. She made two presentations on the AVU strategies on Open Distance Learning, ICTs and Teacher Training and on Enhancing learning and teaching through Open Educational Resources (OERs), explaining the work done by the AVU on teacher training in SSA and the AVU OER Strategy and Portal AVU@OER (http://oer.avu.org/)
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