The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) consists of 16 Ministries of Education in Southern and Eastern Africa: Angola,Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. SACMEQ´s mission is to undertake integrated research and training activities that will: (a) expand opportunities for educational planners to gain the technical skills required to monitor and evaluate the quality of basic education, (b) generate information that can be used by decision-makers to plan and improve the quality of education, and (c) provide opportunities for educational planners, to work together, to learn from each other, and to share experience and expertise.