December 2002
12-13 December 2002
FAO Headquarters
Rome, Italy
To boost Education for rural people as a crucial element of sustainable development, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies will meet in Rome, Italy, at FAO headquarters, on 12-13 December 2002. The workshop is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the technical cooperation of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the financial support of the Italian Development cooperation.
In a world where the richest 1% of the world's people receive as much income each year as the poorest 57%, most of the 2.8 billion people still live on less than $2 a day and 70% of this poor live in rural areas. Today inequalities reached alarming levels in world history and the gap among urban and rural people is not closing. It is mainly among the rural poor that the 800 million undernourished people live, as well as the 1.5 billion people that has no access to drinking water, the 2 billion people that does not have electricity and the 854 million adults illiterate (of which 544 are women), the 130 million children out of school and 13 million children lost their mother or both parents to AIDS. Among rural poor are most of the about 250 million children and adolescent obliged to work. They often work more than 12 hours a day, for example in cocoa, tobacco, banana plantations, exploited by local and multinational firms, and in many cases reduced to a condition of slavery. Among these children are those who will be increasing tomorrow the number of adult illiterates. Inequities feed delinquency and criminality which often constitute a sign of the exasperation of the poorest against world inequities. One of the major inequalities affecting the poor is the unequal chance of access to and completion of quality education for rural people, which is crucial to social and economic development.
To bridge the education gap between the rich and the poor, and between urban and rural areas of the developing countries, and to promote equal access to and completion of quality basic education, FAO is organizing this Aid Agencies Workshop on Education for rural people.
The workshop objectives are to:
The Workshop is expected to result in:
The Workshop is organized around:
About 50 representatives from bilateral and multilateral agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations will attend the Workshop.
Thursday, 12 December 2002
8:00 - 9:00
Registration
Cuba Room (B224)
9:00 - 10:30
Iran Room (B016)
Session one: Setting the stage
Chairperson: Ms Ester Zulberti, Chief, Extension, Education and Communication Service (SDRE), FAO
Opening speech by Sissel Ekaas, Director, Gender and Population Division- Sustainable Development Department (SD), FAO:
"Education for Rural People: a Crucial Factor for Sustainable Development"
Greetings from Minister Giandomenico Magliano, Director-General, Directorate for Development Cooperation (DGCS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Speech by Mr Gudmund Hernes, Director of International Institute for Educational Planning, IIEP/UNESCO:
"The over-all framework and challenges of the EFA initiative and its relation with this workshop and the flagship on Education for the rural people (ERP)"
"Presentation of the flagship initiative, the workshop rationale, objectives and programme" by Ms Lavinia Gasperini, Senior Officer, Education for Rural Development, Extension, Education and Communication Service, Sustainable Development Department, FAO
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee-break
Malaysia Room (B227)
11:00 - 13:00
Session two: What is the role of Education in poverty reduction and rural development strategies?
Chairperson: Ms Ester Zulberti, FAO
Overview of main findings of the FAO/SDRE- IIEP/UNESCO study on
"Education for rural development: towards new policy responses"
Report from the FAO and IIEP/UNESCO Seminar "Education for rural development in Asia: experiences and policies lessons" by Mr David Atchoarena, Program Specialist, IIEP/UNESCO and Ms Lavinia Gasperini.
General discussion
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 16:00
Session three: "Show and Tell" session. Agencies will briefly present their recent policies, experiences and lessons learned in providing education to rural people.
Chairperson: Ms Ester Zulberti, FAO
Time keeper: Jennifer Gachich, FAO Volunteer
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 18:30
Continuation of "Show and Tell"
Chairperson: Mr Gudmund Hernes, IIEP/UNESCO
Concluding remarks of the first day - Ms Ester Zulberti, FAO/Gudmund Hernes
18:30 - 18:35
Communications for next day and closure by Ms Lavinia Gasperini)
20:00
Dinner in Trastevere at a traditional Roman Trattoria
Friday, 13 December 2002
8:00 - 8:45
Facilitators and Panellists Coordination Breakfast
Malaysia Room (B227)
Panel discussion No. 1:
Intervention frameworks and mechanisms:
How to better focus on basic education for rural people?
The panel will address examples and proposals on how the following framework addresses ERP:
Facilitator: John Morris, Principal Advisor, Education Canadian International Development Agency
Panellists:
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Panel discussion No. 2:
What are the monitoring mechanisms for education for rural people and what are the indicators?
The panel will discuss:
The basis of donors' monitoring experience, how to monitor improvements in removing disparities in rural people's access and retention in basic education and in the quality of their education within a defined time frame.
Facilitator: Mr David Acker, Iowa State University, USA
Panellists:
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Donors' coordination for effective aid policies and practices?
How to strengthen the new EFA Flagship on Education for Rural People and:
Facilitator: Ms Mary Pigozzi, Director, Division for the Promotion of quality education, UNESCO
Panellists:
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Iran Room (B016)
16:00 - 17:00
Winding up: improving education for rural people:
Conclusions and remarks by the Rapporteur, Mr John Oxenham and proposals for further actions by Ms Ester Zulberti and Ms Lavinia Gasperini, FAO
Official closure and acknowledgements by Ms Ester Zulberti, FAO
17:00 - 19:30
Rome by night. "Walking and talking"; networking on Education for rural people in front of the most beautiful fountains and piazzas of Rome
20:00 Dinner at a typical Roman Pizzeria
1. Dr Sibry J.M. Tapsoba
Chief Education Specialist, Operations Policies and Review Department (POPR)
African Development Bank, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
2. Sukhdeep Brar
Education Specialist
South Asia Social Sectors Division, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
3. Mr Ved Goel
Acting Deputy Director and Head of Education
Education Section, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, United Kingdom
4. Mr J. Stierna
Administration of Social Development Issues
European Community, Brussels, Belgium
Organizing Team:
5. Ms Ester Zulberti
Chief, Extension, Education, Communication Service (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
6. Ms Lavinia Gasperini
Senior Officer, Education for Agriculture and Rural Development (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
7. Mr Patrick Gautier
Education Officer (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
8. Ms Fiorella Ceruti
Consultant (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
9. Ms Carine Rouah
Consultant (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
Others
10. Ms Lydda Gaviria
Communication Officer (SDRE), FAO Regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile
11. Ms Vera Boerger,
Agriculture Education and Extension Officer (SDRE), FAO Sub-regional office for Southern and East Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
12. Mr Malcolm Hazelman
Senior Education and Extension Officer (SDRE), FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
13. Ms Michelle Owens
Agriculture Education and Extension Officer (SDRE), FAO Regional office for Africa, Accra, Ghana
14. Mr William Seiders
Senior Rural Youth Development Officer (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
15. Mr Jean Pierre Ilboudo
Officer-in-charge, Communication for Development Group (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
16. Mr. Kalim Qamar
Senior Officer, Agricultural Training and Extension (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
17. Mr Peter Van Lierop
Forestry Education Officer (SDRE), FAO, Rome, Italy
18. Mr Mohammed Rouighi
Director, Conference, Council and Protocol Affairs Division (GIC), FAO, Rome, Italy
19. Ms Nuria Felipe-Soria
Information Officer, News and Multimedia Service (GIIM), FAO, Rome, Italy
20. Mr. Juan Carlos Navarro
Senior Education Specialist, Washington, USA
21. Dr Francois Dagenais
Director of the Strategic Area of Education and Training,
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Coronado, Costa Rica
22. Mr. Tom Vandenbosch
Development Division, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
22. Desiree Hagenaars
IFAD, Rome, Italy
23. Ms Josiane Capt
Senior Specialist
In-Focus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability, International Labour Office, Genève, Switzerland
24. Mr Geir Olav Myrstad
In-Focus Programme on Child Labour
International Labour Office, Genève, Switzerland
25. Mr Frans Lenglet
International Training Centre of the ILO, Torino, Italy
26. Ms Elizabeth Doupé Goldberg
Director, Documentation, Information and Training
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Fiumicino, Italy
27. Mr Peter Moock
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
28. Mr Christian Fauliau
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
29. Ms Felicity J. Proctor
Rural Development Adviser-DFID/World Bank
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
30. Mr Robert Prouty
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
31. David Harding
Senior Education Specialist
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
32. Mr Shigeru Aoyagi
Education Sector
UNESCO, Paris, France
33. Ms Nemia Temporal
Senior Education Officer
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Genève, Switzerland
34. Mr Gudmund Hernes
Director
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris, France
35. Mr David Atchoarena
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris, France
36. Ms. Flora Sibanda
37. Ms Dianne Spearman
Division Director
Head of Strategy and Policy Division, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
38. Ms Arlene Mitchell
Head of School Feeding Support, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
39. Mrs. Gabriele Slezak
Department of Educational Cooperation
OFSE -Austrian Foundation for Development Research, Vienna, Austria
40. Mrs. Maria-Waltraud Rabitsch
Austrian Development Co-operation, Vienna, Austria
41. Mr. Edwin Bourgeois
Education Strategies Unit
Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), Brussels, Belgium
42. Dr John F. Morris
Principal Advisor-Education
Scientific, Technical and Advisory Services Directorate, Canadian International Development, Quebec, Canada
43. Mr. Jimmy Smith
Agricultural Specialist
Scientific, Technical and Advisory Services Directorate, Canadian International Development, Quebec, Canada
44. Mr Pierre Mazzoni
Chef de la division de la coopération éducative
Direction Générale Coopération internationale et développement, Paris, France
45. Mr Paul Coustere
Chef du bureau de l'Education de base et de l'alphabétisation
Ministère des Affaires érangères, Paris, France
46. M Jean-Claude Balmes
Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), Paris, France
47. M Alain Maragnani
Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation, de la Pêche et des Affaires Rurales
Inspection de l'Enseignement Agricole, Paris, France
48. Mr Martin Weiss
Ministère de l'Agriculture de l'Alimentation, de la Pêche et des Affaires rurales: Pôle de coopération internationale, Montpellier, France
49. Dagmar Orth
GTZ, Germany
50. Mr Herbert Bergmann
Senior Education Planner
German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ), Eschborn, Germany
51. Min Giandomenico Magliano,
Director, General Directorate for Development Cooperation (DGCS)
Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy
52. Ms Vincenza Russo e Ms Teresa Savanella
General Directorate for Development Cooperation (DGCS)
Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy
53. Mr Kunihiko Yasuda
Officer
Multilateral Cultural Cooperation Division, Cultural Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
54. Ms Elisabeth F. (Betsy) Heen
Norwegian Agency of Development Co-operation (NORAD), Oslo, Norway
55. Ms Karen B. Feldberg
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, Oslo, Norway
56. Ms Bente Nilson
Head, Technical Group for Education, Research and Culture, Oslo, Norway
57. Mr Knut Opsal
Head, Technical Group for Environmental Issues, Oslo, Norway
58. Ms Sissel Volan
Oslo, Norway
59. Mr Dankert Vedeler
Deputy Director General
Department of Policy Analisis and International Affairs, Ministry of Education and Research, Oslo, Norway
60. Mr Tor E. Gjerde
Adviser
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway
61. Ms Maria Emilia Galvao
Directora
Gabinete de Assuntos Europeos e Relacoes Internacionales, Ministerio da Educacao, Lisbon, Portugal
62. Ms. Daniela Rotondaro
San Marino Permanent Representative to FAO, Rome, Italy
63. Mr Ernst Bolliger
Lindau, Switerland
64. Mr Ahlin Byll-Cataria (F/E)
ADEA Chairperson, Berne, Switzerland
65. Mr Frank van der Staaij
Sustainable Economic Development Department (DDE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
66. Mr Jacco Bos
Alternate Permanent Representative
Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the UN Organisations for Food
and Agriculture, Rome, Italy
67. Dr Carew Treffgarne
Education Adviser, Overseas Development Administration, London, United Kingdom
68. John D.Hatch, III
Basic Education Advisor
USAID, Washington D.C., USA
69. Dr. Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo
Director
Associates in Research & Education for Development (ARED), Dakar, Senegal
70. Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altawaijri
Director General ISESCO
Organisation Islamique pour L'Education, les Sciences et la Culture, Raba, Maroc
71. Mr David L.J. King
Secretary General
Paris, France
72. Katherine Namuddu
Associate Director, Africa Regional Program
73. Mr Paolo Rozera
World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), Rome, Italy
74. Mr Sergio Marelli
Representative of Italian NGOs
75. Dr David G. Acker
Assistant Dean, National and Global Programs
Professor, Agricultural Education and Studies, College of Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
FAO-UNESCO Flagship on Education for rural people
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