Project Database
Support to the Tanzania Teachers Union for Training of its Representatives - Phase 3
| Country: | Tanzania |
| Start Date: | 2007-10-01 |
| Deadline: | 2013-09-30 |
| Host organisations: |
Tanzania Teachers Union
(TTU)
|
| Co-operating organisations: |
Danish Union of Teachers
(DLF)
|
| Related Links: | |
Project Summary:
Aims:
Strengthen the capacity of the Tanzania Teachers Union
Expected Results:
• Hand book for trade union leaders revised
• Strategic planning and regular training system for the TTU leadership, for branch leaders and for financial officers.
• Ongoing sustainable training of school representatives.
• Emerging social dialogue
Working Methods:
• Participatory workshops
• Exchange visits
• Expertise and consultancy
Number of Participants in this country: Several hundreds
Target group:
• Branch Leaders
• Stakeholders
• Trainers
• Finance Managers
• Newly elected trade union leaders
• Branch executives
• School representatives
Gender Perspective: Included in overall project perspective
Recent updates:
The overall educational objectives have been achieved.
The social dialogue has just recently started to take shape, meaning that a dialogue between the TTU and the ministry of Education in Tanzania has started and is expected to develop into a more permanent system of regular negotiations on salary and working conditions as well as TTU participation in government educational discussions, boards and bodies.
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