Articles
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12 October 2021 
The public versus austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end
ActionAid, Education International, Public Services International
ResearchThe world faces a series of interconnecting crises and responding to them will demand a complete disruption of business as usual. In the light of Covid-19, the growing debt crisis, rising inequality, gender injustice, and the climate crisis there is an urgent need to revisit the fundamental redistributive role of...
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12 October 2021 
New research: IMF imposed austerity slashes three million frontline workers from world’s most fragile education and health systems
NewsNew research by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine progress on health and education.
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12 July 2021 Education unions take action to end school-related gender-based violence
VideoEducation union activists from nine countries across Africa share what they have learned about challenging gender-based violence in their schools, their communities, their unions and their national education systems.
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18 June 2021 
EI Africa kickstarts capacity building for union leaders
NewsEducation International (EI) Africa kickstarted capacity building for its affiliates with a workshop for Southern Africa held virtually from 16th to 17th June 2021. The workshop gathered over 40 participants, mainly union representatives from Malawi (PSEUM and TUM), Zambia (ZNUT, SESTUZ and BETUZ), Namibia (NANTU), Eswatini (SNAT), Lesotho (LAT and...
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1 May 2021 Os Sindicatos da Educação tomam medidas para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
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10 December 2020 
#16dayscampaign | “When teachers’ unions take action, schools become safer for everyone”, by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work).
Worlds of EducationGender-based violence in and around schools poses big challenges to education unions and their members. Because everyone in and around schools – teachers, students, education support personnel - can be both perpetrator and victim of such violence, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a violation of both the right to quality...
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Cooperation Projects
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2023 Orientation of the National Executive Committee (NEC)
The programme will help the new leaders of the union to undertake their functions effectively, and to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective delivery of the union’s services. As the NEC members are coming into their leadership positions for the first time, and it is expected that...
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2021 - 2022 Education Out Loud
Building of network to advocate for tax justice as an alternative source to achieve better education financing.
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2008 - 2027 African Women in Education Network (AWEN)
AWEN is the EI Women’s Network in Africa. It was launched in May 2008 with the overall goal to promote Gender Equality in unions to strengthen these unions for the achievement of Quality Education for All. AWEN constitutes a platform for women educators sector to influence the political will in...
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Affiliates
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Secondary School Teachers’ Union of Zambia
SESTUZ
P.O. Box 36138Lusakatel: +260211238638tel: +260 97.69.22.20fax: +260 211238638 -
Basic Education Teachers Union of Zambia
BETUZ
P.O. Box 31131Lusakatel: +260 (1) 25.53.62fax: +260 (1) 25.53.73 -
Zambia National Union of Teachers
ZNUT
P.O. Box 3191410101 Lusakatel: +260 (2) 118.47.806fax: +260 (2) 118.45.768