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  1. 1 October 2025

    West Africa – Investing in Teachers and School Leaders: Professional Standards, Working Conditions, and Teacher Education

    This document outlines a study conducted by UNESCO IICBA on the state of teacher professionalism in West Africa, focusing on professional standards, teacher education, and working conditions. It emphasizes the urgent need for countries to adopt and implement professional standards and competencies for teachers and school leaders. It highlights how...

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  2. 5 October 2023

    Africa: Member organizations celebrate World Teachers’ Day

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    In commemoration of Word Teachers’ Day, Education International (EI) held a webinar to highlight the fundamental importance of teachers in education and emphasize the need for them to be well-trained, well-supported, and well-remunerated. This year’s celebration is under the theme, ‘The teachers we need for the education we want: The...

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  5. 23 March 2023

    Regional Committee passes resolutions to address trade union rights

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    The Education International Africa Regional Committee (EIARC) passed four resolutions as it wound up its meeting on 22 March in Johannesburg, South Africa. The resolutions were on attacks on the union in Eswatini, irregular payment of teachers’ salaries, unfair terms of work in Angola and intimidation of union leaders in...

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Cooperation Projects

  1. 2026

    Teaching Together Program

    Teaching Together is a annual joint endeavour of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE) and its Member and Associate Organizations to support partners as they co-plan and co-deliver professional development workshops for local teachers. It involves over 50 Canadian teacher volunteers each year. Currently programs are offered in Africa and the...

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  2. 2025

    Training for teachers on gender-based violence organised by the Gambia Teachers Union with support from the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO)

    The Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) organized a two-day intensive training on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) for teachers, held at the Christian Council on the 20th and 21st of February 2025. The primary objective of the training was to build teachers’ capacity in identifying, preventing, and responding to GBV within school environments....

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  3. 2025

    GTU Women's Symposium in conjunction with International Women's Day

    GTU hosted a Women’s Symposium in connection with International Women’s Day to bring together women and men to celebrate their successes, to acknowledge the particular challenges faced by women, and to identify ways and means for them to move forward and make meaningful contributions to the GTU, to the educational...

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