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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 June 2026 Still cooking with a failed recipe: New report reveals the IMF’s staggering double standards and harmful policies
The new report from ActionAid International, Education International, and partners exposes how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has continued to push low-income countries to prioritise debt repayments over public services, despite claiming to support better education outcomes.
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Equity and inclusion 11 June 2026 Education International and its members bring over 5,700 children out of child labour and into school
Education International and its members are part of a program that empowers teachers and mobilises communities against child labour. The approach which involves capacity building, union partnership, and community engagement is delivering outstanding results and effecting enduring change.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2025 Over 1,880 children brought back to school thanks to education unions working to end child labour
Across 6 countries in Africa, education union programmes against child labour are delivering life-changing results. In 2024 alone, over 1,880 former child labourers have been returned to classrooms in project areas in Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Leading the profession 23 April 2025 Education International brings hope and effective strategies to curb child labour
Thanks to an Education International project on child labour, working with union members and their local communities, 1,880 children were brought back to school last year in six participating countries: Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Equity and inclusion 10 December 2024 Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour
Education unionists from Burundi, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe came together in Malawi to learn about successful local efforts to end child labour. From 1 to 6 December 2024, coordinators and project leaders spearheading the unions’ work against child labour had the opportunity to exchange know-how and good practice...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 July 2024 Investing in quality education and teachers: an African perspective on EI’s upcoming World Congress
Joan Aja
The teaching profession is traditionally known to be a noble profession and a driver for all sectors and industries we have in the world of work. The profession is highly valued but greatly ignored by many African governments: they want quality teaching but take a short-sighted approach and are unwilling...
Investing in quality education and teachers: an African perspective on EI’s upcoming World Congress
Development Cooperation Projects
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Teso Region TAG workshops
- Host organizations
- Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Uganda
- Start date
- 1 May 2019
- End date
- 31 March 2020
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Monitoring and Support through Regional Offices
- Host organizations
- Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Uganda
- Start date
- 1 May 2019
- End date
- 31 March 2020
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Local TAG Sensitization meetings
- Host organizations
- Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Uganda
- Start date
- 1 May 2019
- End date
- 30 April 2020
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Regional TAG Workshop Planning and Printing of Materials: Teso Region
- Host organizations
- Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Uganda
- Start date
- 1 May 2019
- End date
- 30 April 2020
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Community Mobilization and Partner Forums
- Host organizations
- Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Uganda
- Start date
- 1 May 2019
- End date
- 31 March 2020
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Women's Bursaries
- Host organizations
- - Burkina Faso: Syndicat national des enseignants africains du Burkina (SNEA-B) and Syndicat national des enseignants du secondaire et du supérieur (SNESS) - Ghana: Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) - Haiti: Confédération nationale des éducatrices et éducateurs d’Haïti (CNEH), Fédération nationale des travailleurs en éducation (FENATEC), and Union nationale des normaliens/normaliennes et éducateurs/éducatrices d’Haïti (UNNOEH) - Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU) - Togo: Fédération des syndicats de l’éducation nationale (FESEN) - Uganda: Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) - India: All India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF)
- Cooperating organizations
- CTF/FCE member organizations
- Countries
- Burkina Faso; Ghana; Haiti; Sierra Leone; Togo; Uganda; India
- Start date
- 1 April 2019
- End date
- 31 March 2020
Affiliates
Uganda National Teachers Union
UNATUhttp://www.unatu.org/ [email protected] tel: +256-414-34.69.17 tel: +256 772.43.20.72 fax: +256-41-425.92.73P.O. BOX 377 Kampala