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Meeting for the finalisation of MSD didactic tools

Location: Ecole du Patrimoine Africain, Porto-Novo, Bénin

Date: 16 – 20 July 2007

Context
« Museums at the service of development »-MSD is a programme elaborated by EPA, and financed by FSP (Fonds de solidarité prioritaire) of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support the development of museums and related institutions, whether public, private or communitarian in order that they become true actors in the educational, cultural, social and economical life in Sub-Saharan Africa.
After the workshop for the launch of the Msd which took place from February 12 to 16, 2007 at EPA, Porto-Novo, EPA organises a series of technical meetings for each main region of Africa: the one for West Africa took place in April 2007 at Ouagadougou and the one for Central Africa took place at the beginning of June 2007 at Libreville. The meeting for East and Southern Africa is scheduled to take place in October 2007.
From Porto-Novo to Libreville, the implementation of the Msd has improved in quality in so far as after an information and sensitisation phase on the Msd, the Libreville meeting engaged the programme in its operational phase by producing pedagogical tools and an indicative programme for the training heritage teachers and teachers. These documents will help ensure the efficiency of the school-museum relationship.

This meeting of the small committee which was created to finalise these documents aims at reinforcing and making concrete the achievements of the Libreville meeting.

Objectives
- finalise didactic tools drawn up at Libreville
- define strategies to enable the insertion of these tools in teaching programmes at various levels
- suggest practical modalities for the organisation of the training of teachers and heritage facilitators: initial and continuous training as well as various levels of training (from heads of institutions to teachers), etc.

Participants
Seven heritage and education specialists some of whom were at the Libreville meeting. They come from Gabon, Senegal, Congo, Mali, France and Benin.

Expected results
- finalised didactic tools on the pedagogical approach of masks as well as stories and legends
- an indicative programme for the training of teachers and heritage facilitators in the framework of an efficient approach of the school-museum relationship.
- Clear specifications for the training of teachers and heritage facilitators.

Financing
- Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire (FSP) / Ministère des Affaires étrangères (France)
- Government of Benin
- Ecole du Patrimoine Africain - EPA

Contacts
Ecole du Patrimoine Africain – EPA, 01 BP 2205 Porto-Novo- Benin
Tel : 229-20 21 48 38/ 20 21 28 16 ; Fax : 229- 20 21 21 09 ; E-mail :