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Articles

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 June 2023

    Go Public! Finance quality, equitable, and inclusive education in Africa

    Top education union leaders from Cameroon, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia took stock of gains in their fight against education privatisation through the Education International (EI) Global Response campaign and committed to continue these efforts through EI's Go Public! Fund Education campaign to mobilise to fully fund public education systems and...

    Go Public! Finance quality, equitable, and inclusive education in Africa
  2. Union renewal and development 27 October 2021

    Solidarity in times of crisis: the EI COVID Response Fund

    As the COVID-19 pandemic became global, education unions showed solidarity with a dedicated COVID Response Fund to support member organisations during school closures and where teachers were hit by the health crisis.

    Solidarity in times of crisis: the EI COVID Response Fund
  3. Standards and working conditions 2 August 2021

    Rwanda: SYPERWA stands by teachers during the crisis

    Rwandan education workers’ union SYPERWA organised a tour to meet teachers from private schools and help them solve the problems encountered. Thanks to Education International’s COVID-19 solidarity fund, the union has been able to map the issues for teachers affected by COVID-19, provide legal assistance to teachers suspended as a...

    Rwanda: SYPERWA stands by teachers during the crisis
  4. Union renewal and development 6 December 2020

    SYPERWA resolves to improve the financial capacity of their members

    The Education Staff Union of Rwanda (SYPERWA) has taken measures to improve the financial capacity of their members through the establishment of a solidarity fund for teachers. The decision was taken during the 3rd Congress of SYPERWA on 5th December 2020 held in Kigali.

    SYPERWA resolves to improve the financial capacity of their members
  5. Union growth 21 October 2020

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

    Cherine Sabry

    Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
All articles: Rwanda

Development Cooperation Projects

  1. Social Dialogue and Quality Education in East Africa

    Cooperating organizations
    FEATU (Federation of East Africa Teachers Unions) ; KNUT; TTU; ZATU; UNATU; SNER; SYNEDUC; STEB
    Countries
    East Afrika: Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
    Start date
    1 January 2018
    End date
    31 December 2021
    Social Dialogue and Quality Education in East Africa
  2. Early Childhood Education

    Cooperating organizations
    BUPL
    Countries
    Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Nigeria
    Start date
    2 February 2015
    End date
    26 April 2021
    Early Childhood Education
All Development Cooperation Projects: Rwanda

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