The Africa Network Campaign on Education For All (ANCEFA) emerged from the World education forum held in Dakar 2000.

Four sub-regional consultations of national civil society coalitions were held in 2000 and 2001 as follows:
• West Africa : Accra September 2000
• Central Africa: Brazzaville January 2001
• East Africa: Dar esalam February 2001
• Southern Africa : Maputo July 2001
This helped built the vision, missions, goals, strategies and the structure of ANCEFA: