Commonwealth Consortium for Education

Includes minutes of Executive Committee, annual reports, publications, project reports relating to Zimbabwe. Also members' files including Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies; Building Understanding Through Links for Development; Centre for Commonwealth Education; Commonwealth Association; Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA); Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management; Commonwealth Business Council; Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators; Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration; Commonwealth Counties League; Commonwealth Human Ecology Council; Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative; Commonwealth Counties League; Commonwealth Education Fund; Commonwealth Institute; Commonwealth Local Government Forum; Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management Ltd; Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit; Commonwealth Teachers Group; English Speaking Union; Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Link Community Development; League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers; Para 55 the Commonwealth HIV and AIDS Action Group.

The Commonwealth Consortium for Education was established by a group of education-related Commonwealth NGOs to coordinate their efforts on behalf of Commonwealth education, to stimulate more coherence in their work and to provide a collective mechanism for interaction with ministries and official Commonwealth organisations. Its objectives are to promote the development of education throughout the Commonwealth; to provide analysis to support the formulation of policies on Commonwealth educational cooperation; to assist Commonwealth inter-governmental agencies to draw on Commonwealth civil-society organisations (CSO) resources and expertise; to develop and disseminate models of good practice in education; to constitute a forum which will promote co-operation by members. CCfE links a wide range of CSOs in education, responding to Commonwealth Governments’ encouragement of the formation of civil-society sectoral groups. It was founded in 2001 and formally constituted in 2003 as a group of civil-society bodies committed to education in the Commonwealth. It is a voluntary association with no paid staff. Officers (Chair, Alternate Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Communications Officer) work through an Executive Committee. The Consortium received formal accreditation to the Commonwealth in December 2004.

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