AFRICA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE NEXT STEPS

Overview Where are we? Where do we want to be? Immediate next steps Key steps over next 6 months Verification and Disbursements Financial and Procurement Reporting Milestones General implementation support and supervision Country /regional level milestones ACE Extension and Reallocation

Where are we? ACE SDR EARNED PER DLR   SDR EARNED PER DLR TOTAL AMOUNT EARNED / TOTAL AMOUNT ALLOCATED 1 Institutional Readiness 2.1 Short-term Students 2.2 Master Students 2.3 PhD students 2.4 Internship 2.5 Accreditation 2.6 Research Publications 2.7 External Revenue 2.8 Teaching & Learning Environment 3.1 - 3.4 Fiduciary Management 4 Procurement 2iE 5,200,000 100% 82% 323% 32% 47% 50% 38% 13% 84% AVERAGE 34% 81% 95% 20% 41% 80% 40% 39% 21% 51%

Continue the great work! EDUCATION AND APPLIED RESEARCH Msc-Phd and relevant short-term professional training Push for international accreditation Priorities revenue generation activities Priorities completion of infrastructure and equipment results

Immediate next steps Fill ACE survey -today/now! Most Ouaga 2018 PowerPoints uploaded on AAU website- now Share regional aide memoire-within two week of workshop close! To national governments

Disbursement of verified/achieved results Center feedback on draft verification outputs for student results- @ACE workshop now Communication of Verification letters- May 24 2018 DLI 2.1-2.4 DLI 2.5 self-assessment/accreditation results DLI 2.8 for April 2018 verifications (if not yet out) WB disbursement clearance letters to each country –May 31 2018 Submission of withdrawal applications- Immediately after

Next round of verification-2018 DLI 2.6 Research Publications Data already submitted First round of results to be shared –June 2018 Reconciliation of feedback-end June 2018 Processing of DLI 2.6 earnings-July 2018 Additional DLI 2.5 and DLI 2.7 submitted – July-August 2018 Infrastructure and Equipment DLIs – DLI 2.8 Submission of milestones ready for verification – July 2018 DLI 2.8 verification missions to ACEs-August 2018 Processing of DLI 2.8 earnings-September 2018

Fiduciary Deadlines 2018 Interim financial reporting (ACEs responsible) – August 15 2018 FM DLIs-financial audit for 2017 (ACEs responsible) – Submission June 30 2018 Procurement Audit (ACEs responsible) – June 30th 2018 End of civil works procurement (ACEs responsible) – June 30th 2018

General implementation support and supervision ACE Audio – July 10 2018 and September 20 2018 AAU/WB/ACES Webex with selected ACEs as needed AAU/WB Technical AAU/WBSupervision missions to selected ACEs – October/November 2018 AAU/WB/National focal point

Milestones and Restructuring Country /regional level milestones National review meetings-1 per country between now and – October 2018 13 ACE PSC meeting-November 2018 (Ghana at AAU Secretariat) 10th ACE 1 and 1st ACE Impact joint workshop – February 2019 (Djibouti) ACE Project Restructuring Pending countries (Benin and Ghana) to submit extension request from MOF-May 2018 WB approval and processing of Project extension –all countries– May/June 2018

THANK YOU

ACE Impact For Development- ACE-Impact Call for proposals, June 2018 ACE-Impact Proposal Evaluation, August 2018 ACE-Impact Site Evaluation, September 2018 ACE-Impact Selection of ACEs by PSC, October 2018 ACE-Impact Notification to Selected ACE Institutions and Signing of Agreements, November 2018