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About GDLN in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Global Development Learning Network for Africa is a regional community operating within a global network of over 70 Development Learning Centers (DLCs) worldwide. The World Bank expanded the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) to the Africa (AFR) region in 2000, in response to increased client demand for timely knowledge exchange and exchange of good development practices. By using advanced information communication technologies to link information providers to clients, specifically through interactive video-conferencing and the Internet, GDLN provides a cost-effective, high-impact alternative to traditional methods of knowledge exchange. The African DLC programs cover a wide range of development issues including HIV/AIDS education and health, good governance, environmental policy, journalism, urban development, administration and decentralization policy, management, social policy, economic growth and poverty reduction and private sector development. In addition to this development focus, the DLCs also now run many other programs, such as degree courses in Human Resources Management and Financial Engineering in collaboration with higher-education and private institutions. In Senegal alone, there are an average of 2500 people from all sectors of activities that attend training programs and are enrolled in courses, seminars, global dialogues, and web-based courses. Course programs range from Challenges of Decentralisation, Public and Private Partnership for Infrastructure, and Public Debt Management to the Strategic Management of Development Projects. The aim and focus of the programs is to enhance the evolution of practical and pragmatic solutions to development problems and build the intellectual capacity necessary for successfully implementing change.
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Who we are: about the AADLC
The African GDLN Team has been responsible for programming and network development in the region, helping to deliver over ____ video-conferences, reaching ___ participants in the region since 2000. The GDLN programs connect 54 countries, and 16 DLCs in the Africa region (12 or 16?). The World Bank’s country offices and affiliated DLCs in the region serve as the venues for GDLN interactions. The Association of African Distance Learning Centers (AADLC) was established in 2004 (check) as a mechanism to unify and to coordinate the activities of the DLCs in Africa. The AADLC etsbalishes coorperative arrangements and guidelines regarding both the business process and strategy of the regional Centers, including country regulations, license agreements, budget arrangements, as well as in the procurement of video conferencing equipment, bandwidth, and content for the DLCs as a group. The 12 Centers benefit from enhanced cooperation and the ability to operate as a forum with a common platform for action. The AADLC now covers 30,065,000 square kilometers of land and 54 countries, including some 900,000,000 inhabitants (clarify). Click to view a list of African DLCs and their contact details. Addis Consensus: Roadmap and Action Plan The Addis Consensus laid the framework for the creation of the AADLC Secretariat to coordinate all the activities of the African Distance Learning Centers and at the same time outlined the process by which the technology services in the Centers will be fully owned and managed by the centers themselves with eac center defining their distinct development and capacity requirements. Contact AADLC: Association of African Distance Learning Centres (AADLC) P.O Box 12 997 Dakar-Colobane Dakar - Senegal Tel: +221-8250254 / +221-8250379 Fax: +221-8640305 Email: sen_mseck@gdlnmail.org or tza_csenkondo@gdlnmail.org Related resources:
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Challenges and Strategic Direction
Key Recent Developments Late last year, funding was provided to pilot a project that will involve the installation of a pilot Monitoring and Evaluation system in two of the Distance Learning centers. The new Monitoring and Evaluation system will provide a common platform, with one set of indicators with which to monitor the Center’s work. The will allow the Center’s to produce their annual plans in a standardized way and better monitor the progress by the DLCs across the region. Common indicators are currently being developed. Towards a new Monitoring and Evaluation System for African GDLN Centers. The Center representatives began, at the meeting, exploring options for indicators suitable for monitoring and evaluating the performance of their Centers as well as the impact of the Centers’ availability and work. A consultant, financed through an IDF grant, facilitated this first step of the discussions which, over the coming 12-24 months, aims at establishing an on-line system for monitoring as well as systematic evaluation efforts. The IDF grant is implemented by the Senegal GDLN Affiliate, on behalf of the other African GDLN Centers; it is supervised by the Africa GDLN Team. The outcomes of this work can lead the way for the GDLN family at large regarding indicators for performance and impact assessment tools and strategies. Strategic Direction of the African DLCs: - Strengthening the AFR GDLN team
- Restructuring GDLN Operations
- Transferring Task Management to Sector Families
- Separating DLC’s from Reliance on WB Infrastructure
- Helping centers in partnership development and mainstreaming DLC use in CB efforts
- Assisting AADLC institutional CB efforts
- Finalize standardized indicators
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