1. AFRICA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE
NEXT STEPS

2. 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

3. Where are we? ACE SDR EARNED PER DLR
SDR EARNED PER DLR
TOTAL AMOUNT EARNED / TOTAL AMOUNT ALLOCATED
Institutional Readiness
2.1 Short-term Students
2.2 Master Students
2.3 PhD students
2.4 Internship
Accreditation
Research Publications
External Revenue
Teaching & Learning Environment
Fiduciary Management
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%

4. 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

5. 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

6. Disbursement of verified/achieved results
Center feedback on draft verification outputs for student results- @ACE workshop now
Communication of Verification letters- May
DLI
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
Submission of withdrawal applications- Immediately after

7. 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

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

9. General implementation support and supervision
ACE Audio – July and September
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

10. 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

11. THANK YOU

12. 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