08:30-09:00

Registration 

09:00-09:20

Workshop Opening: Venue: Auditorium

• Welcome Remarks  - Sunita Pitamber, Director, Human Development, African Development Bank
• Opening Remarks – Amit Dar, Director, Global EDDR, The World Bank

09:20–9:30

 Peter Materu: Objective and scope of the workshop.

Session 2 - Plenary: Chair and Moderator: Peter Materu, Practice Manager, World Bank.

9:30–10:45

The Role of Teaching Learning Materials (TLMs) in Improving  Quality of Education

Discussants: Amit Dar, Director, World Bank; Dr. Sunita Pitamber, Director, AfDB; Birger Fredriksen, Author; Prof  Pham Gia Tri, Vice-Director of Vietnam’s Research Institute for Textbooks and Educational Materials (RITEM);  Prof Dinesh Kumar, National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT); Mrs. Hadidja Alim Youssouf, Minister of Basic Education, Cameroon; Dr. Penelope Bender, Learning Team Lead, USAID

10:45-11:15

Coffee/Tea Break

Session 3 – Getting Textbooks to Every Child– Cost Barriers to Textbook Provision in Sub Saharan Africa Chair: Dr Sunita Pitamber, Director, African Development Bank  

11:15-12:30

Birger Fredriksen: Textbook Cost and Financing Issues in Sub Saharan Africa

Presentation followed by Q and A

12:30–1:30

Lunch (AfDB to please indicate Venue)

Session 4- The Global Book Fund: Transforming Book Development, Procurement and Distribution – Chair: Etienne Porgo, Manager, Education, Science and Technology, African Development Bank

1:30 – 2:20  

Penelope Bender: All Children Reading. A Global Book Fund.

Presentation followed by Q and A

2:20–3:20 

Prof Pham Gia Tri: Vietnam's policies and steps to try to get textbooks to every child in the country

3:20-3:35 

Coffee Break

3:35–4:35

Professor Dinesh Kumar, Head, Publication Division, NCERT : National Curriculum Framework: Provision of textbook in Indian Schools".

Presentation followed by Q and A

Session 5b –Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Way Forward Chair: Dr Sunita Pitamber, Director, African Development Bank       

4:35-5:45

Sukhdeep Brar: Getting Textbooks to Every Child: What can SSA countries do?

6:30-8:30

Welcome Dinner hosted by the World Bank Venue: Hotel Pullman

09:00-9:10

Recap of the last session & overall revisiting of Day 1 discussions

Backstopping: (World Bank)

9:10–10:00

Ensuring that all Children have Access to Knowledge: AfDB’s Vision

Dr. Sunita Pitamber, Director, Human Development, African Development Bank

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

Session 7– Regional Country presentations

11:20-12:15

Ethiopia: Country Presentation

Girma Woldetsadik --– Provisions of TLMs in Ethiopia: Achievements and Lessons Learned Under General Education Quality Improvement Project

Daniel Abebe – Textbook Provision in Ethiopia – Policy and Practice

12:20-1:15

Cameroon Country Presentation – Cameroon National Textbook Policy for Quality Education

Mr. Ambroise Owotsogo Onguene,

Aliou Sow to support

1:15 – 2:15

Lunch

Session 9 - Group Work

2:20-3:15

Organize participants into groups and provide guidelines/instructions for group work

3:20–4:15

Group Work : To discuss current policies, identify areas of inefficiencies, and discuss solutions and possible policy options Group work continued

Session 10 -Country Consultations

4:20–5:30

Group work continued

Coffee will be available outside the conference room

Recap of previous days discussions

Session 11 – Group Presentations

9:30–10:45

Session 12 – Important Takeaways – Chair: Peter Materu, Practice Manager, World Bank

10:45-12:00

A panel presenters, country delegates and Bank staff to talk about country situations discussed the previous two days and discuss emerging recommendations

Conclusion and vote of thanks!

2:00–3:30

Summing up – Sukhdeep Brar and Birger Fredriksen

Reflecting on the aim of the workshop and what was achieved. Immediate steps forward.

Vote of Thanks: Peter Materu