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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT
François
Born June 11, 1961, in Strasbourg (France)
French nationality. Married, two children
Address :
Clange, 89520 Saints en Puisaye, France,
tel/fax (33) (0) 3 86 45 62 84 / GSM (33)(0)6 87 87 82 61
E-mail : [email protected]
Website : http://www.f-robert.com
Education:
Institution
Université Lumière-Lyon 2
Date: from
1994
to
May 1998
Degree or Diploma
obtained:
Institution
Doctor of Educational Sciences, summa cum laude (Thesis advisor: Michel Develay.
Jury composed of Chief Education Officer Fortier, Ms. Costa-Lascoux, Messrs.
Martinand, Audigier and Develay)
(Thesis about law teaching)
Independant candidate
Date:
1991
Degree or Diploma
obtained:
Major in ’91 for the external high-school teachers recruitement process
(agregation) in economy and management
Institution
Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Date: from
September, 1980
to
June, 1982
Degree or Diploma
obtained:
Institution
Master in private law
Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique (ENS Cachan, France)
Date
1980 – 1984
Degree or diploma obtained
Certificat d’Aptitude au professorat de l’enseignement technique (certificate of
ability to technical teaching)
Language skills: (mark 1 to 5 for competence)
Language
Reading
French
English
Speaking
Writing
Mother tongue
5
4
5
Present position: Free-lance expert in education (exclusive profession )
Years of professional experience: 28
Key qualifications:
Development and management of education.
58 missions as an independent consultant,
in 29 different countries, from which 24 in Africa.
 Sectorial analysis and policy analysis : experience in preparation of key strategic documents
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(Mauritania) and publication of a book (“Nouveaux enjeux pour l’école moyenne en Afrique”,
De Boeck 2005) focused on a survey of policies for lower-secondary school in ten countries,
experiences in technical assessments for Fast-Track Initiative (Senegal, Benin, Georgia, Cameroon)
and for design of strategic plans and requests to the FTI-Catalytic Fund and GPE (Mauritania,
Haïti, Ivory Cost, Central Africa Republic, Mali, Chad, Burkina-Faso, Burundi).
Surveys and baseline studies : experience in designing and piloting of studies and surveys,
elaboration of methodology and research instruments, researchers' training, reports writing
(Zimbabwe, baseline study on Higher Education institutions, Madagascar, gender and education,
Algeria, drop-outs, regional management)
Law and management of education
Management of education development
Projects management and assessment
Experience with projects financed by international organizations:
Uganda, 2003, june, First Regional Conference on Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA), World Bank,
ADEA, AED : conference “ What Middle School Model is Appropriate for Africa in the coming years ”
and representation of French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Specific Developing Countries experience:
Country
Organisation
Date:
From/to
Position
Job Description
Burkina-Faso
Le Vif du Sujet /
AFD
Consultant,
team leader
Assessment of a long term plan, and design of a 3 years
program for submission ti GPE
Consultant,
team leader
Survey about bilingual education
consultant
Design of a long term plan for submission to GPE
consultant
Conception of a capacity building program and design of
a 3-years plan for submission to GPE
consultant
Supervision of a project (PAPSE) led by the WB with
FTI/CF funding
Assessment of a project led by UNESCO (Quality
Improvement of Education in Bissau Guinea)
GIZ
22 days,
September and
October 2012
5 missions from
january to
october, 2012
1,5 month,
February and
May 2012
November 19th29th, January 3rd14th, June 23rd –
July 8th
October 12th-27th,
2011
September 16th
-25th 2011
July 21st –
Aug2nd, 2011
July 3rd -15 th,
2011
21 days, June
2011
May 8th-27th,
2011
33 jours, March
and April 11
01/23-02/09
Mauritania
CRC Sogema /
AFD
Burundi
Le Vif du Sujet /
BTC-CTB
Chad
Le Vif du Sujet /
UNESCO
CAR
World Bank
Bissau
Guinea
Mauritania
UNESCO
Guinée
GIZ
Moldova
UNICEF
Togo
World Bank
Mali
PASEP/AFD
Guinea
CAR
AFD
12/16-12/23/10
Mali
UNICEF
45 days, October
10- January 11
consultant
CAR
World Bank
06/8-16/2010
consultant
Assessment of a new system for the payment of
teachers’ salaries through mobile phones and publicprivate partnerships
Mauritania
World Bank
consultant
assessment of implementation of ten years of National
Program for the Development of Education Sector
Haïti
World Bank
40 days, May
and September,
2010
03/24 - 04/08/10
consultant
elaboration of guidelines for an emergency payment of
compensations to private schools' teachers, after
2
UNESCO
consultant
consultant
consultant
consultant
consultant
consultant
consultant,
team leader
consultant
Appraisal report of the National Program for Education
Development (FTI)
Survey about the choice of a third region for the GIZ
project in basic education
Appraisal report of the Consolidated Strategy for
Education Development (FTI)
Survey about the geographical repartition of teachers and
about teachers’ allocation process.
survey about incentives to TVET private providers, in
order to get improvements in quality
assessment of a project promoting quality in basic
education and gender equity .
design of a project (5M€) in capacity building for
Ministry of Education
support to the preparation of a request to the Catalytic
Fund / Fast Track Initiative (budget support)
earthquake
Guinea
Bissau
Guinea
National
coordination of
ESP
UNICEF and
World Bank
02/02 - 02/17/10
consultant
design of a proposal for the restructuration of FTI/CF
grant
01/04/-01/14/10
+ 02/25 03/12/10
95 days between
June 09 and July
10
consultant
support to
and of a
Initiative
support to
and of a
Initiative
consultant
support to baseline survey on higher and tertiary
institutions in Zimbabwe
consultant
Mid-term assessment of the EFA project (multi-donors)
consultant
the preparation of a 3 years sector action plan
request to the Catalytic Fund / Fast Track
the preparation of a 3 years sector action plan
request to the Catalytic Fund / Fast Track
Ivory Cost
AFD then
World Bank
Zimbabwe
UNESCO
Haïti
World Bank
05/25-05/29/09
08/02-08/08/09
+homework
04/27-05/11/09
CAR
UNICEF
04/02-04/16/09
consultant
Preparation of an emergency plan for classrooms building
in the post-conflict areas
Madagascar
UNICEF
01/1101/19/09+homew
ork
consultant
Gender and education, survey about 6 areas, support to
the final redaction of the survey, in relation to a
Malagasy consultants group
Guinea
EFA Program
10/07 –
10/21/08 ; 11/14
– 12/12/08
consultant
Final assessment
Haïti
World bank
09/01 –
09/17/08
Consultant,
team leader
Support to the preparation of Haïti’s request to FTI
Catalytic Fund
CAR
(Bangui)
DRC
(Kinshasa)
World Bank
08/14 –
08/28/08
consultant
Design of a new system for the payment of teachers’
salaries through mobile phones
AFD
consultant
Preparation of a new project in basic education.
Mauritania
Ministry of
Education
AFD
06/17 –
06/27/08
03 / 7-18 / 08 ;
05 / 20-27 / 08
consultant
Global assessment of
the national program for
development of education sector, 2001 – 2008.
04/ 3-10 /08
consultant
Concept note for an emergency project in capacity
building, MEN
SFERE
Jan. 2nd to 16th,
2008
consultant
TVET : Review of existing standard-setting system and
development of an outcome-based standards and
qualifications framework
contact Mrs Ratinaud [email protected]
World Bank
09/24//07 to
10/04//07,
01/16/08 to
01/31/08
consultant
TA for the preparation of long-term strategy
in education, joint mission with Pôle de Dakar,
UNESCO / BREDA
Algeria
Projet MEDA II
Education (EU)
80 days, several
missions July 07
– november 08
consultant
Organisation of a survey about drop-outs.
Team leader.
Vanuatu
Ministry of
Education
consultant
Technical assistance for the preparation of a
LogFrame for the Vanuatu Education Sector
Strategy (VESS)
Georgia
UNICEF / Donors
coordination in
Georgia
CTB (Belgian
technical
cooperation)
AFD
06/17/07 to
07/02/07,
08/27/07 to
09/14//07
04/15/07 to
04/29/07
consultant
Technical
assessment
of
Georgia’s
candidature for Fast-Track Initiative
02/22/07 to
03/15/07
consultant
12/02//06 to
12/17/06 and 7
to 01/7-28/07
07/15/06 to
08/05/06
Consultant
Technical assessment for the preparation of a
new project in capacity building for Ministry
of Education
Technical assessment for the preparation of a
new project (“Education for All in
Djibouti”)
Joint Assessment Mission (WB-UN), under
Darfur Peace Agreement:needs assessment in
education.
contact Mr Mullen [email protected]
Assessment of the technical assistance
provided by the project “appui à la réforme
du système éducatif mauritanien”
Technical assessment of Cameroon’s
candidature for Fast-Track Initiative
CAR
(Bangui)
Islamic
Republic of
Iran
CAR
(Bangui)
Congo (DRC)
Kinshasa)
Djibouti
Consultant
Sudan /
Darfur
World Bank
Mauritania
Project ARSEMAFD
06/27/06 to
07/10/06
Consultant
Cameroon
World Bank /
coordination of
05/17 to
06/10/ 06
Consultant
3
of a schools grants program.
Sénégal
Bénin
Sénégal
Algeria
technical and
financial partners
in Cameroon
World Bank /
coordination of
technical and
financial partners
in Sénégal
AFD/ coordination
of technical and
financial partners
in Bénin
World Bank /
coordination of
technical and
financial partners
in Sénégal
EC (EuropeAid)
MEDA II
Education
03/22 to
04/05/06
Consultant
Identification of a multi-partenarial project for
capacity building in education
03/06 to
03/18/06
Consultant
Technical assessment of Bénin’s candidature
for Fast-Track Initiative
01/13/06 to
02/04/06
Consultant
Technical
assessment
of
Senegal’s
candidature for Fast-Track Initiative.
10/21-30//05
Consultant
and trainer
Survey about regional management
regional projects in education ;
11/24 –
12/07/05
and
Agence
Intergouvernementale de la
francophonie
Agence
Intergouvernementale de la
francophonie
Agence
Intergouvernementale de la
francophonie
Agence Française
de Développement
20-31/07/05
Workshop
leader
Training session for regional directors (48)
Training workshop for experts in curricula
from 7 eastern Africa countries
07/2-9/05
Workshop
leader
Training workshop for experts in curricula
from 9 western Africa countries
05/20-30/05
Workshop
leader
Training workshop for experts in curricula
from 8 central Africa countries
04/24/ –
05/05/05
expert
Laos
Agence Française
de Développement
04/2-12/05
expert
Transfer of a project on secondary education
in Vanuatu, from french foreign office to
AFD : modifications in contracts and
donor’s procedures.
Transfer of a project on basic education in PR
Lao, from french foreign office to AFD :
modifications in contracts and donor’s
procedures.
Sénégal
BIEF (Belgique),
contracting with
Lux-Dévelopment
03/14-19/05
Workshop
leader
Madagas-car
Agence
Intergouvernementale de la
francophonie
03/5-14/05
Workshop
leader
Tunisia
French embassy
09-01to 09-04
Attaché
Mauritania
French cooperation
09-98 to 09-01
Technical
adviser
Comores
Niger
Congo
(Brazzaville)
Vanuatu
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Training for reform designers in curricula,
professional training and TVET reform : method
workshop for trainers and managers ,competencybased approach for renovation of curricula in five
professional sectors. (motor vehicles engineering,
electrical engineering, metallic building, air
conditioning, industrial maintenance)
.
Annual workshop of the multinational pool of
experts in education, about reforms in
curricula. Training for experts, in order to
implement a large monitoring about reformes
in curricula (23 countries)
Management of cooperative projects in
-education :
- planning teachers initial and in-service
training, organization of numerous sessions in
Tunisia or in France about educational
matters : pedagogy, management of
examinations, citizenship at school, crosscultural issues in foreign languages teaching,
- managers training
- organization of meetings or seminars for
high-level executives
- Technical consulting in management
(educations statistics : implementation of a
new data-recording system; training plans for
high-school directors and librarians)
- capacity building in national administration :
daily technical assistance for SecretaryGeneral of Ministry of Education and
Secondary Education Director, updating and
broadcasting of local regulation
- preparation of key documents for long- term
strategy in education (CSLP 2001, and
National plan for the development of
Education-PNDSE, collaboration with World
Bank teams (IDA) and other donors). These
documents supported the Mauritanian loan to
WB as well as a new project of bilateral
French aid, and have been prepared within the
Logical Framework Method
Other relevant professional experience:
Country
Organisation
Position
Job Description
France
Date:
From/to
Institut national de la 1996-1998
recherche
pédagogique
(part time)
Research
fellow
France
Ministery of
Education
1992-1996
(part time)
Trainer
France
Ministery of
Education
1984-1998
Teacher
Research in education about civics and law at
school, and about youthful violence at school:
supervision of three teams, writing of reports,
collection of datas in numerous high-schools.
training sessions for teachers and school
managers about citizenship and participation at
school in difficult areas of Paris suburbs.
Teachers professional training within an
important curricula reform (1992) in technical
education : elaboration and realization of
training plans (300 teachers over 4 years) and
tools.
Technical teaching in law, economics,
management ( technical high-schools and first
level of higher-education, vocational training ) ,
numerous tasks in organization of examinations
(writing materials for high-scale tests, jurys)
and national competitive examinations for
teachers recruitments, professional support to
younger teachers.
Some publications :
1) Books
Nouveaux enjeux pour l’école moyenne en Afrique, en collaboration avec Jean-Marc-BERNARD,
De Boeck, february 2005 a book focused on policies for lower secondary school in ten countries.
Enseigner le droit à l'école, ESF, 1999, collection "pratiques et enjeux pédagogiques".
2) Papers
La relation entre réformes des programmes scolaires et acquisitions à l’école primaire en
Afrique: réalité ou fantasme ?L’exemple de l’approche par les compétences
Collaboration with Jean-Marc Bernard, Iredu and Alain Patrick Nkengne Nkengne, University of Zürich
Working Paper DT 2007/4, on line, IREDU, Université de Bourgogne, February 2007.
Une approche conceptuelle de la qualité en éducation, dossiers des sciences de l’éducation n°
13 (Revue internationale des sciences de l’éducation, Toulouse), june 2005 (a 25000 signs paper about
quality in education)
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Quel modèle pour l’école moyenne africaine dans les années à venir ?(What Middle School
Model is Appropriate for Africa in the coming years), World Bank, on-line on WB’s website ( SEIA),
collaboration withJean-Marc BERNARD
L’examen de fin d’école moyenne en Afrique francophone subsaharienne : nouvelles
contraintes, nouveaux enjeux. Actes du 16ème colloque international de l’ADMEE-Europe, 2003
L’examen et le développement des scolarités : mutation et rôle de l’organisation de l’examen
de fin de collège en Afrique subsaharienne, Revue Internationale d’Education de Sèvres, n° 37,
décembre 2004, collaboration avec Jean-Marc
Entre performances et valeurs, Education et Management, september 2004 : a paper about quality
in education
La place des valeurs de la morale politique dans l’enseignement scolaire du droit, in S. SOLEREQUEVAL (ed), Les valeurs au risque de l'Ecole, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1999, p. 153 s.
Rhétorique, métaphore, principes : emplois et figures du droit dans la vie scolaire, in Educations
n° 16, octobre 1998, p. 57 s.
Question de principes, in Education et Management n°20, octobre 1998, p. 26s
Le droit au lycée, hélas in Cahiers Pédagogiques n° 364, mai 1998, p.26
La transposition scolaire des savoirs juridiques à l’épreuve de leur complexité. Actes de la 3°
Biennale de l’Education, Paris, 1996.
3) Translations from english :
La pédagogie du service dans les Collèges et les Universités des Etats-Unis, par T.T Sweeney, in
EDUCATIONS n° 16, octobre 1998
Faciliter l’accès au droit : l’action de l’American Bar Association ( division « formation
grand public » ) , par R. A. Banaszac, in Educations n°16, octobre 1998
References :
M. Michel Develay, Professeur des Universités, (Université Lumière-Lyon2, France) [email protected]
M . Kamil Wedoud, Senior Education Specialist, Banque Mondiale, [email protected]
M. Michael Drabble, Senior Education Specialist, [email protected]
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