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Title
Please provide a name for your action learning plan.
Securing national exams in Guinea Education System
Challenge statement
Challenge type: If you are working on multiple challenges, please indicate if this is your "big bet" or "exploratory" challenge.
Please note: we ask you to only submit a maximum of 3 challenges - 1x Big Bet, 2x Exploratory. Each challenge must be submitted individually.
EXPLORATORY
Challenge statement: What is your challenge? (Please answer in specific terms: "Our challenge is that...”.)
Our challenge is that the intention of the ministries in charge of education, through national exams, is to sanction the level of learning of students annually, which then makes it possible to establish a filter of the best. Taking into account the realities of our country where no coherent database exists for both the students in situation and the supervisors, the examination papers are written from which we most often receive the echoes of flight before the date of the tests, to reasons not mastered…. Thus, in an indescribable hubbub, uncontrolled budgeting is imposed. Which is finally a real problem to the government. So, Our job will be to learn and see how we could support to facilitate the implementation of a system to ensure that exams are held in a secure environment with the ultimate goal of indisputable results.
Background: What is the history of your challenge? What is causing or driving it? Who is involved? How does the current situation look like? What undesired effects does it produce?
For several years, the Guinean examination system has been confronted with numerous cases of fraud resulting from the fact that, from the writing (composition) of the subjects, the holding of the exams through to the correction and dissemination of the results, certain parameters escape from the vigilance of the organizers. Several annual evaluations have seen the clandestine use of mobile phones, the substitution of candidates by people paid for the task, supervisors who abandon classrooms. During the corrections, several cases of contested marks, correctors although performing well, have always been the subject of criticism aimed at tarnishing the credibility of the results. The organization of the 2020 baccalaureate exams confirmed that the number of students was not under control; i.e.: more than 830 candidates did not have the (precedent diploma) BEPC diploma and 46 admitted to the baccalaureate in 2019 were in the list of candidates for 2020 in the hope to have a better rank and thus benefit from a scholarship to study abroad. Faced with this problem, it is a more than urgent appeal that is launched by the authorities for mitigation. Our action is therefore timely insofar as from an innovative point of view, it will be possible to quickly study, understand and propose a solution leading to a better way of taking exams.
Quantitative evidence: What (official) data sources do you have on this challenge that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge? You can add text, a link, or a picture.
https://www.guineenews.org/dossier-guinee-fraudes-aux-examens-reseaux-complicites-nouvelles-methodes-le-systeme-educatif-en-proie-a-une-crise-de-valeur/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5JURVsQhIg Request from the Ministry in charge of National Education for UNDP support in the field of National Exams Security.
Qualitative evidence: What weak signals have you recently spotted that characterizes its urgency? Please provide qualitative information that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge. You can add text, a link, or a picture.
- many student with diploma but not able to correctly speak in working language (french in majority and english particularly.
- Missing of teachers in some schools
- Teacher going on strike during scholar period.
- Existance of cellphone with matchbox size on the market
- almost no social media restrictions.
Value proposition: What added value or unique value proposition is your Accelerator Lab bringing to solving this challenge? Why is it your Lab that needs to work on this challenge and not other actors within UNDP, other stakeholders in the country respectively? Why is it worth investing resources to this challenge?
This question makes sense in that the CO has already received a call for action from the government through the Ministry of Education. The most important resource of a country is the Human resources, no country can achieve the real development if there not qualified Human resource. By addressing this issue, AccLabGN will provide faster solution processing. We will be working with networking approach made available by the Global Lab to tackle the situation. We will use our data collection mechanism that allows us to get the deeper understanding of cases. we will comfort the government in its reconquest of good prestige among its citizens by providing it with the means of credibility of the process.
Short “tweet” summary: We would like to tweet what you are working on, can you summarize your challenge in a maximum of 280 characters?
Guinea Education, from an untrusted system to a prestigious one with the AcclabGN
Partners
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
-ANIEN & Ministry in charge of national Education.
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
the collaboration will be base on meetings during what we will make use of our skilled communication , emotional intelligence, and respect for diversity and also use listening without judgment and ensuring you understand the meaning behind what they say. If we don't understand, we just ask for clarification, and take the time to summarize what was said before moving on.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
- IRE and Education Directions.
What sector does our partner belong to?
Academia
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
the collaboration will be base on meetings during what we will make use of our skilled communication , emotional intelligence, and respect for diversity and also use listening without judgment and ensuring you understand the meaning behind what they say. If we don't understand, we just ask for clarification, and take the time to summarize what was said before moving on.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
- The parents' union.
What sector does our partner belong to?
Civil Society
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
the collaboration will be base on meetings during what we will make use of our skilled communication , emotional intelligence, and respect for diversity and also use listening without judgment and ensuring you understand the meaning behind what they say. If we don't understand, we just ask for clarification, and take the time to summarize what was said before moving on.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
- The pupils, students and Teachers union.
What sector does our partner belong to?
Academia
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
the collaboration will be base on meetings during what we will make use of our skilled communication , emotional intelligence, and respect for diversity and also use listening without judgment and ensuring you understand the meaning behind what they say. If we don't understand, we just ask for clarification, and take the time to summarize what was said before moving on.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
UNICEF
What sector does our partner belong to?
United Nations
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
Professional and Hand to hand collaboration
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Learning questions
Learning question: What is your learning question for this challenge? What do you need to know or understand to work on your challenge statement?
- How the redaction of the subject of the exam is done and where?
- Who are the selected people in charge of the exam subject redaction?,
- Are those Guys correctly paid to do their task?,
- How is the final subject transmitted to the class of exams?
- What are the channels of diffusion of the final subject?,
-Why do people complain always about the final results?
Remark: in this crucial challenge, we need to know all the steps so that we miss nothing in our study to provide the best solution proposition.
To what stage(s) in the learning cycle does your learning question relate?
Sense, Explore
Usage of methods: Relating to your choice above, how will you use your methods & tools for this learning question? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
working with networking approach made available by the Global Lab to tackle the situation. We will use our data collection mechanism that will help us to get the correct datas and then lead to deeper understanding of cases. the Ethnography and social network analysis will be like our check point to see out of the frame how thing are moving, ear-says will also be put in profit to be more active.
Existing data gaps: Relating to your choice above, what existing gaps in data or information do these new sources of data addressing? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
We don't have yet Gaps, the future will guide.
Closing
Early leads to grow: Think about the possible grow phase for this challenge - who might benefit from your work on this challenge or who might be the champions in your country that you should inform or collaborate with early on to help you grow this challenge?
- The Ministry in charge of National Education. -ANIEN.
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