Today (7-9 November 2017) begins the Joint ACEI
and ACEII Projects Workshop at La Palm Royal Hotel in Accra Ghana.
The Association of African
Universities is the Regional Facilitating Unit for the ACEI project (west and
central Africa) and the Inter-University Council of East Africa is the Regional
Facilitating Unit for the ACEII Project (east and southern Africa).
ACE means Africa Higher Education
Centres of Excellence. These projects involve 46 universities in Africa that
were competitively selected to be the Centers of Excellence.
The project supports the Centers
of Excellence to improve their core business of teaching, learning, research,
collaboration and some infrastructure upgrade of the universities.
Disbursement Linked Indicators
are used to track implementation progress – and funds are disbursed based on
the achievement of certain milestones.
How is the project funded – through the International Development
Assistance funding which are loans provided by the World Bank to the
participating countries. Centers of Excellence get in the region of US$8million
(less or more in some cases)
You can learn more about the ACEI
project from here: https://ace.aau.org/
You can learn more about the ACEII
project from here: http://ace2.iucea.org/
