Project Database
Early Childhood Educators in Ghana
| Country: | Ghana |
| Start Date: | 2002-03-01 |
| End date: | 2010-06-30 |
| Host organisations: |
Ghana National Association of Teachers
(GNAT)
|
| Co-operating organisations: |
The Danish National Federation of Early Childhood Teachers and Youth Educators
(BUPL)
Danish Federation of Trade Unions and the Danish Confederation of Salaried Employees and Civil Servants Council (LO/FTF Council) |
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A breakthrough for Early Childhood Educators in Ghana |
Project Summary:
Aims:
Contribute to improving the quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Early Childhood Development (ECD) through awareness raising, promotion of the professional identity, prestige and respect for the Early Childhood Educators’ profession, and the improvement of living and working conditions for ECE's in Ghana.
Expected Results:
• GNAT has promoted and further developed the Early Childhood Educators Association (ECEA) structure at national, regional and district level as part of GNAT's union structure.
• GNAT has improved the capacity to provide education, services and advocacy for ECE's and ECD at regional and district level
• GNAT has improved the capacity for awareness raising and advocacy promoting the professional identity, prestige and respect for the profession of ECE's and increasing the awareness among policy makers, ECE's, parents and children of the rights and duties of ECE's
Working Methods:
Training of Educators, pedagogical development (pedagogical model center in Upper West), workshops, development of union affairs like services and working standards and negotiations of working conditions.
Number of Participants:
500-600
Target group:
Educators, teachers and ECEA representatives
Gender Perspective: equality in the ECD/E
Since its inception in 2002, the programme has gone through various developments in response to changes in the operating environment, but BUPL and GNAT have always maintained a two-leg strategy: integrating ECE in the union structure and educational/pedagogical development.
BUPL and GNAT are completing their nine year programme, but GNAT is committed to continuing to further the development of early childhood education in Ghana. GNAT is increasingly recognised as a regional leader in ECE and will be well placed to orient, guide and advise neighbouring teacher unions involved in other ECE programmes.
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