Articles
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30 June 2020 
EI/AOb Child Labour Projects | Transnational Best Practices and Union Impacts
Nora Wintour
ResearchFor the last two decades, EI and its affiliates, Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb/the Netherlands) and Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW/Germany), through the Fair Childhood Foundation, have supported projects to reduce school dropout rates and child labour and to contribute to the development of child labour-free zones in over 13 countries on...
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21 December 2019 
Trabalhando para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Escritos dos representantes de sindicatos da educação da África Oriental, Ocidental e Austral
PublicationsA iniciativa “Sindicatos da Educação Intervêm para Acabar com a Violência de Género no Âmbito Escolar” da Internacional da Educação1 (EI), faz parte de um processo de mais de 30 anos de advocacia internacional com vista à promoção da igualdade de género na educação e nos sindicatos.
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21 December 2019 
Estratégias para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
A experiência dos sindicatos da educação em África
PublicationsA Violência de Género no Âmbito Escolar (VGAE), nomeadamente, nas escolas, nos seus arredores e noutros contextos educacionais, consiste num problema de particular importância para os sindicatos do sector da educação e seus membros.
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22 November 2019 
#CRC30 “Ending corporal punishment in schools – a pathway to protecting the right to education”, by Baguma Filbert Bates.
Worlds of EducationIn Uganda, corporal punishment was declared unlawful in schools in March 2016 when the Children’s Act was amended and indeed since 2006, corporal punishment had been discouraged by Ministerial Guidelines. However, it remains a big challenge because in many schools, particularly in the remoter rural areas, it is a deeply...
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20 September 2016 
Schooling the poor profitably: the innovations and deprivations of Bridge International Academies in Uganda
by C. Riep and M. Machacek
ResearchThe study reveals the operations of BIA in Uganda where it sells its version of ‘education,’ or its standardised ‘Academy-in-a-Box,’ to an estimated 12,000 fee-paying students in 63 schools.
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15 January 2013 
Global managerial education reforms and teachers
Edited by Antoni Verger, Hülya Altinyelken Mireille de Koning
ResearchThe EI Research Institute and the University of Amsterdam IS Academie "Education and Development" have co-published a volume exploring the role that teachers play in global policy processes and the effects of education reforms on teachers' labour and professionalism in seven case study countries, including India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru,...
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Cooperation Projects
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2023 Promoting social dialogue to eradicate child labour and strengthen quality education provisions in Uganda
Development of a child labour free zone in Kyesiiga sub county (Masaka district).
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2023 - 2025 Implementation of a Web-Based Management Information System for UNATU, 2023-2025
UNATU is part of a group of African unions that wants to improve the membership information management. The project supports building the system MemberIS (MIS) that has been originally conceived for TUICO from Tanzania. Implementation there plus some pilots elsewhere have proved how much it simplifies management, contributes to membership...
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2022 - 2025 John Thompson Fellowship programme (Africa)
Train selected union representatives, including leadership in various aspects of unionism.
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Affiliates
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Uganda National Teachers Union
UNATU
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