Main Speakers

Dr. Cream Wright  
is UNICEF's Chief of Education. Prior to this he was Head of Education and also acted as Director of the Human Resource Development Division (Education and Health Departments) of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Dr Wright was also Director of the Centre for Research in the Education of Secondary Teachers at Milton Margai Teachers College in Sierra Leone, where he managed Teacher Education programmes and supervised Education Research projects supported with international funding. He has extensive experience in the field of education and development, having worked on numerous projects and programmes in over 60 developing countries and for a wide range of development agencies. Dr Wright received his PhD in Education Innovations from the Department of International and Comparative Education at the University of London Institute of Education. Dr. Cream Wright, a national of Sierra Leone.


Mr. Malcolm Mercer
As a consultant in education policy, planning, management and finance for 20 years, Malcolm Mercer has prepared medium-term education plans, and has prepared, appraised, and monitored primary, secondary, higher and teacher education and education management programmes in Africa, the Caribbean, eastern Europe, central, south and south-east Asia and the Pacific.  As team leader, he has led the preparation, review, analysis and evaluation of education programmes assisted by the European Commission, UK Department for International Development, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Caribbean Development Bank.  In recent years he has led the evaluations of EC/DFID/Ireland Aid support to education sector development in Tanzania, of EC support to the education sector in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries between 1990 and 2002 under the 7^th and 8^th European Development Fund, and of EC support to primary education in India.  He has also led the ADB Subregional Cooperation in Managing Education Reforms project in six Trans Caucasus and Central Asian countries; the ADB Education Sector Development Strategy programme in Kazakhstan; and an analysis of madrasas in Pakistan and Bangladesh for the EC.  Most recently he has assisted in the preparation of the Master Plan for Education 2006-2015 in Mongolia.
Title of presentation: Evaluating education programmes - on whose terms and to what effect?

Professor Birgit Brock-Utne
project manager of NETREED will be
the moderator of the conference.

Workshops
A group of five to six experienced evaluators will give
workshops connected to the theme of
Evaluation of Education from the South.