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Mr. Dieu Donné Michel Razafindrandriatsimaniry, Minister of Secondary and Basic Education
Message of the Minister of Secondary and Basic Education of Madagascar
“Dieu Donné Michel Razafindrandriatsimaniry”
on Education for All
The research of a quality basic education for all is a part of the priorities of Mr. the President of the Republic of Madagascar.
His willingness to develop very quickly the country requires deep changes of mentalities and a more coherent education system; i.e. in accordance with the aspirations of the different actors of development.
As a Minister in charge of Basic Education, I am delighted with the existence of the Dakar Framework of action which constitutes a first stage so that quality basic education to become a reality.
As a signatory of the Jomtien agreement, Madagascar would like to catch up with its delay and will make all its possible not only to elaborate an EFA National Plan of Action but also to implement it. Aware of the ten EFA objectives, we commit ourselves to continue what has been started, by giving priority to:
1) Improvement of the quality of education in all its aspects so as to obtain for all recognized and quantifiable education results;
Therefore the Government has already embarked in providing the pupils with textbooks and usual learning materials.
At the end of every cycle, the teachers “more” in connection with the regional needs will be suggested for so that education is a real engine of development.
2) The possibility by 2015 for the children in difficult situation and those in the wedged zones, to have the opportunity to access a compulsory and free education and to follow it till its term.
We envisage for that a readjustment of the programs to introduce regional specificities so as to increase the retention of the pupils in class and to thus fight against the school dropouts.
3) The access for all the young people and adults to adequate programs to provide them with competences necessary in the everyday life. A Direction of the Education of the Mass and good citizenship were set up to this end.
The political crisis that we lived made new aspirations emerge, inter alia, a basic education of quality, so that everyone can live better and bring its contribution to the development of humanity in general and of Madagascar in particular.
Madagascar remains the partner of various actors in the world to create a learning society, based on the participation of all, so as to improve substantially basic education without excluding anybody.
