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Confronted with the elimination of government support, the teacher union Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, one of Education International’s member organisations, decided to review its international affairs strategy to ensure it can go on leading development cooperation activities in the future.

In an Education International’s EdVoices podcast, Danish Union of Teachers’ International Secretary Tore Asmussen and the Director of international and social justice programme of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation Dan Martin reflect on the importance for education unions to work collectively as a network on development cooperation issues and stress the...

Fruitful cooperation between education unions from the French-speaking world has brought tangible results with the production, printing and distribution of a trade union newsletter, a valuable communication tool ensuring that trade union action gets noticed and supporting the maintenance or increase of union organisation in education.

Education unions have reaffirmed the importance of increasing and enhancing development cooperation activities at global and regional levels, and developed tools to this end.

Education union representatives discussed development cooperation priorities and ways to better cater to the needs of receiving and donor partners alike.

The annual Education International Development Cooperation meeting is a key tool to gather education unions to exchange information, experiences and ideas to build up the capacity of their members.

In Mozambique, significant progress is being made in creating a new education union, with the help and support of Education International and its affiliates.

In September, Education International’s workshops aiming to improve education quality through stronger social and policy dialogue in the education sector were held in Uganda and Malawi.

Education International has assisted a fruitful workshop for Southern Caribbean’s young teacher unionists to enable sustainable and strong education unions promoting quality education in the region.

If universal, public, free education was one of the greatest achievements of the Welfare State, it is also one of the few public sectors that up until now has continued to resist commercialisation and liberalisation.

Education International has encouraged the fifteen education unions in Burkina Faso to take an active part in a multi-partner project aimed at concertedly developing new policies for teachers.

Norwegian colleagues have collaborated with Education International’s Lebanese affiliates to build capacity around union strength and Quality Education for All.

By developing "child labour free zones", CGTEN-ANDEN has aroused the enthusiasm of teachers and increased its influence in social dialogue.

The John M. Thompson Fellowship programme Asia has equipped Indian education unionists with skills necessary to meet challenges faced by the All India Primary Teachers’ Federation and its state affiliates, and grow as future leaders.

Getting involved in development cooperation represents a key way for the Japan Teachers' Union to express its core values, as well as gain and retain younger members, vital to union renewal.

Education International and its affiliates have committed themselves and worked, through their development cooperation activities, towards ensuring that young and early stage teachers and support personnel are adequately represented and empowered within their unions.

South-south solidarity is a cooperation mode that EI has been helping to happen for many years now.

Algerian education unions are working with Education International to address gender equality issues in their unions as part of a capacity development programme.