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Education Unions Take Action to End SRGBV

Project title: Education Unions Take Action to End SRGBV

Host organizations: EI member organisations in project countries

Cooperating organisations: Global Affairs Canada, EI, UNGEI/UNICEF, CTF-Canada, Lararforbundet-Sweden and NEA-USA

Country: Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia

Region: Africa

Start date: 04/11/2016

End date: 31/12/2019

Project Categories:

Gender

Health and Safety in Schools

Description:

An initiative jointly developed by EI and UNGEI (the UN Girls’ Education Initiative), with technical expertise provided by Gender at Work. The primary agents of change in the programme are members of the participating education unions, who are taking action to combat SRGBV within their union structures, local schools and communities. The programme uses Gender Action Learning (GAL) - developed by Gender at Work - as a participatory approach through which participants come to understand the nature of gender inequality and gender based violence in their contexts. The Gender Action Learning (GAL) process has allowed each union to test its own approaches to combat SRGBV, while sharing the experience with others. Peer learning within and between the different unions has been a core and successful strategy to sustain participants’ commitment and to find creative solutions to challenges encountered.

Goals:

The programme is designed to enhance the capacity of the unions and their members to engage in ending SRGBV within their respective contexts at local, provincial/district or national level, as appropriate. The ultimate goal of the programme is to enhance the safety and security of male and female children, youth and teachers in educational settings.

Activities:

3-year programme of union activities and peer-learning workshops

Results:

See mid-term report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUD5muFgs4aHl1lBQa1_H_bNrjqNS0tE/view

Contact:

madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI head office)
Anais Dayamba (EI Africa regional office)

Website:

Mid-term report available on EI website in three languages: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUD5muFgs4aHl1lBQa1_H_bNrjqNS0tE/view
Organisational Development with focus on local level of GTU

Project title: Organisational Development with focus on local level of GTU

Host organization: GTU

Cooperating organisations: Lärarförbundet

Country: The Gambia

Region: Africa

Start date: 01/01/20

End date: 31/12/23

Project Categories:

Communication; Education for All; Gender; Health and Safety in Schools; Human and Trade Union Rights; Organizing, recruiting; Professional Ethics; Quality Teaching; Social dialogue; Status of Teachers; Sustainable Development; Young Members and Early-stage Teachers

Description:

The project is a continuation of the cooperation between the organisations in 1987-1990. 2002-2009 and 2015-2019. The activities in the coming period of 2020-2023 will focus on the local level of GTU. The membership in the organisation has expanded from 7 451 in 2015 to 16 088. This has increased the need of activities of local level.

A big share of GTU's members are young, in dec 2019 67%. GTU has formed a youth wing in the structure, in line with the previous formed women's wings. In the plan is also included a training for the newly elected NEC.

Goals:

To maintain that every work place has a school representative, which is the situation today.

To have all school representatives trained to support the members at the workplace and to recruit new members.

To have the new executive committe trained to strenghten the regional and local structures.

To have a manual for SR training with relevant content for the school representative.

Activities:

During 2020-21 all school representatives will receive training (1 595) to meet the needs and involvement of the members at school level. To be able to arrange that the training manual for SR will be revised and a ToT will be arranged in the beginning of 2020.

Results:

Contact:

Eva Elmstedt Frisk (Lärarförbundet)

Website/social media:

www.gtu.gm; https://www.lararforbundet.se/internationellt

Education Unions Take Action to End SRGBV

Organisational Development with focus on local level of GTU