I just found a very interesting UNESCO initiative which we will now try to set up cooperations with and link it to our recently granted DAAD fund for organising eLearning workshops in the east African Region.
Here some more info:

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http://www.avlc-science.org/new/promotions.htm
Since 2002, UNESCO has actively pursued two cross-cutting theme programmes whose objectives are to engage all the disciplines under the organization’s mandate in order to address pressing global problems. One of the themes is the eradication of extreme poverty and another is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the promotion of science, culture and education. This website is on a programme that falls under the second theme.

The central activity of this programme is to train university staff to enable them convert lecture notes to e-learning format and hence improve on the quality of science and engineering education. In this connection, UNESCO adopted a multi-stage approach in which a needs assessment covering five East African universities was done and areas that needed attention were identified - chief of these being training in e-content development.

Various e-content training programme approaches have been mounted. First, a detailed e-content training curriculum was developed and used during training of trainers workshops. Other activities include facilitating the trained staff to organise national training programmes, and providing some of them with grants to develop e-learning materials in various subjects in science and engineering. This website gives highlights on these activities.