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In the 1990s an
extremely successful strategy for capacity building in the area of
monitoring and evaluating the quality of education was
developed through the establishment of a Consortium of fifteen Ministries
of Education known as the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for
Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ).
SACMEQ’s
mission is to assist educational planners and researchers to undertake
studies
of the quality of their education systems by working in a co-operative
manner that allows them to share their experiences and to learn from
each other. The network works closely with the International
Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) to co-ordinate
the delivery of intensive training
programmes
focussed
on the requirements
of the research, and also to facilitate access to advanced technical
knowledge and computer-based techniques.
The SACMEQ
Co-oordinating Center is located within UNESCO's Harare Office.
It has a Co-ordinator and
operates under the overall guidance of a Management Committee chaired
by Zimbabwe's Minister
for Education.
The
SACMEQ network has completed two major cross-national studies of
the quality of education in Southern and Eastern Africa. The SACMEQ
I Project (1995-1999) was completed by seven Ministries of Education
(Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Zambia, and
Zimbabwe). The SACMEQ II Project (2000-2003) was completed by fourteen
Ministries of Education (Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania
(Mainland), Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda, and Zambia). 
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