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Standards and working conditions 25 April 2023 The Gambia: Development cooperation supports teacher union’s co-operative credit union
The successful partnership between the Gambia Teachers Union Co-Operative Credit Union (GTUCCU) and the Comhar Linn INTO Credit Union of Ireland has positively impacted the lives of teachers and their families in The Gambia. GTUCCU currently has over 30,000 members who use a variety of financial services, including savings and...
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Equity and inclusion 10 December 2020 #16dayscampaign | “When teachers’ unions take action, schools become safer for everyone”, by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work).
Rex Fyles, madeleine kennedy macfoy
Gender-based violence in and around schools poses big challenges to education unions and their members. Because everyone in and around schools – teachers, students, education support personnel - can be both perpetrator and victim of such violence, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a violation of both the right to quality...
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Union growth 21 October 2020 “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Cherine Sabry
Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 June 2020 The Gambia: Social dialogue at heart of COVID-19 response
The Gambia Teachers Union has been proactive in its advocacy and activities in response to the COVID-19 epidemic as it turns its focus to guaranteeing a safe return to schools and quality education for all.
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Equity and inclusion 12 March 2020 Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."
madeleine kennedy macfoy
Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2019 “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
Mugwena Maluleke
African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...
“Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
Development Cooperation Projects
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Training of School Representatives
- Host organizations
- The Gambia Teachers Union
- Cooperating organizations
- to be advised
- Countries
- Gambia
- Start date
- 15 January 2020
- End date
- 30 June 2020
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Gender Sensitization and Training workshop for Union Leaders in Anglophone West Africa, WAWEN
- Cooperating organizations
- Education International, Gambia Teachers Union
- Countries
- Gambia, including the education unions from Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria
- Start date
- 16 July 2018
- End date
- 20 July 2018
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Education Unions Take Action to End SRGBV
- Cooperating organizations
- Global Affairs Canada, EI, UNGEI/UNICEF
- Countries
- Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
- Start date
- 4 November 2016
- End date
- 31 December 2019
Resources
Education unions take action to end school-related gender-based violence
Os Sindicatos da Educação tomam medidas para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Trabalhando para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Estratégias para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Affiliates
Gambia Teachers' Union
GTUP.O. Box 133 Banjul