Start date: 2014
End date: 2015
Project Categories:
Research and Policy Development
Union Capacity Development
Recruitment
Description:
Together with Education International, the DLF contributed to the process of developing the TUM Strategic Plan 2014-2016. The precondition for supporting the implementation of the Plan was that TUM raised the membership fees from 0.2 percent of the salary to 1 percent, and thus, in the long term, enabling TUM to finance the organisation’s activities without external financing. The increased membership fee was decided at an extraordinary TUM congress.
The project activities are of high quality, but have not been implemented as fast as planned, due to other challenges that TUM has been facing. Firstly, the Ministry of Finance, who withdraws the membership fees from the teachers’ salaries, has not transferred the fees to TUM and, secondly, there has been a significant staff turnover, which has resulted in changed working procedures and processes.
Goals:
The project’s main objective is to strengthen TUM as a financially independent and democratic teacher organisation that provides relevant information and service to the members, to the benefit of the education sector in general. The specific objectives are 1) to ensure that TUM is well-known and reputable among the members as a relevant and efficient organisation and 2) to initiate the process of building TUM’s organisational, administrative and financial capacity to implement TUM’s Strategic Plan (2014-2016), independently of external support.
Activities:
Development of recruitment and communication strategies, hold 100 recruitment rallies, leadership training at national and provincial level, production of newsletter and information materials.
Results:
Better coordination and cooperation between CTEUB and CONMERB and Ministry of Education in Bolivia.
More skilled and knowledgeable CTEUB and CONMERB leadership at national and regional level.
More awareness of membership communication needs and gender issues.
Contact person:
Tore Asmussen
Funding :
DANIDA via CISU (NGO umbrella organisation)
