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CIIMDA has been offering the following services and support through the various Country representatives: providing, free of charge, standard African music instruments such as the djembe drums, bells and shakers to be distributed free to schools in the participating countries. The instruments are intended as CIIMDA’s material support for the theoretical education it offers on indigenous African musical arts since 2004. We have also sent an offer to the countries through our representatives that CIIMDA is willing to provide instruments to the participating countries. However, the condition is that the various Ministries should arrange to collect the instruments from Pretoria and distribute to schools as per need. So far not a single country has been interested in collecting the music instruments.

This year, the annual SADC Children's Music Festival, initiated and sponsored by CIIMDA, will be hosted by Namibia.

Venue: Windhoek College of Education Namibia

August 18 - Arrival of participants

August 19 - Festival starts

August 20 - Seminar:"Teaching the Musical Arts of Africa in Primary and Secondary Schools ; Problems and Breakthroughs," and more festival

August 21 - Festival and Closing Ceremony. Departure starts then till Friday

In 2007 CIIMDA has given booster training to 2 people from each participating country who could be deployed as Country trainers to enable them to begin to train other teachers and learners in their respective countries under logistic arrangement by their respective Ministries and coordinate by the Country Reps. CIIMDA needs evidence that the country trainees are being effectively deployed and whether further training, or the training of more instructors is needed in the participating countries.

Standard books of education in the philosophy, theory, and practice of indigenous African musical arts have been published by CIIMDA to cater for cultural arts education from primary up to Tertiary levels of education in Africa. Complimentary copies have been given to the Country Reps to present to the Ministry. Some teachers have also received copies of these books. More books are being produced in 2007 for release in 2008. CIIMDA is prepared to make the books available and affordable for distribution to teachers and learners in schools on condition that a country includes African indigenous musical arts in the curriculum and express interest in the use of the books that have been given to the Country Reps for the inspection and approval of the relevant decision makers in the Ministry.

DVDs of musical arts performances by school concert groups in the SADC countries covered by CIIMDA and recorded during CIIMDA outreach courses have been prepared and await background information for the producing accompanying-learning brochures. Country Reps have been given sample copies of the DVD in order to find persons to provide the background information. CIIMDA even made some funds available to compensate persons who would provide the necessary information for the DVD brochures. So far only Malawi has responded positively and will soon receive the DVDs for distribution and use in the schools.

Phase 3 of the CIIMDA programme started in 2006. The CIIMDA team visited different locations in the participating countries.

In Phase 2 of the CIIMDA programme was introduced. Those teachers who had not attended training courses at the Centre in 2004 were given the opportunity to attend phase 1 training. These amounted to 59 teachers.

432 teacherse received CIIMDA training during outreach courses and 6187 children attended concerts.

In Phase 1 of the CIIMDA programme in service training courses for teachers were offered at the centre.

57 teachers received training.
72 drums and 36 mbiras were distributed for teaching.
Teachers signed commitment contracts as MAT cell members.
Promotional visits were made to the respective countries to discuss the CIIMDA programme with the relevant Ministries of education