Overview
The Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa (RTIA) is a partnership between the European Union, EU member states (France, Belgium and Finland), UNESCO, and the African Union Commission, designed to tackle the critical shortage of qualified teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa. By supporting teacher governance, teacher development, and related education reforms, the initiative ensures that schools have enough skilled, motivated, and inclusive teachers to deliver high-quality education for all.
The RTIA key outputs are:
- Technical assistance for countries to support the development and implementation of policies, education, and professional development for teachers.
- Testing and scaling up of successful programmes on teacher education and training focusing on selected priorities (e.g. foundational learning, digital and green skills, gender-responsive pedagogy) including in crisis contexts.
- Research partnerships (regional and AU-EU) on teacher policies, their satisfaction and well-being, and evidence for better teacher governance and professional development.
- Strengthening regional capacity, coordination and frameworks (e.g. the implementation of the Continental Teacher Qualifications Framework and development of a continental digital competency framework for teachers).
- Regional knowledge sharing, advocacy, coordination and capacity building for teacher policy and professional development.
More information on the Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa
Milestones
- selection and contracting of 5-10 research proposals
- aim to have received 25 requests from ministries of education for TA
- scaling project on continuous training via tutored blended learning
- outreach to donors, regional symposium
- gender Transformative Pedagogy project (identify partners)
- 28 lower secondary schools will be equiped w. digital toolkits + trainings
- start of activities under the Regional Teacher Facility (Q4 2023)
- launch of the EU-Africa flagship teachers programme, 24 January 2023
