Briefing about SCEFA Activities in GAWE 2016

The Coalition announced the start of the events and activities of the school grant project within the GAWE theme on 26th of April , in collaboration with the EU,UNICEF. 200 participants participated in the school workshop from the states that was funded by GPE.

The states presented a presentation on School Grant Project funded by GPE via World Bank and announced the start of the GAWE. Launching the week was followed by publications distribution and discussions on the outputs of research studies regarding school dropout. The workshop also addressed the reality of the numbers of children and youth out of school and the reasons led to dropout.

On the 29th , the coalition organized an Open day for children and an exhibition on educational themes within the frame of governors community   including different sketches  in addition to competitions, rewards, puppet theatre, storytelling events. The number of participants exceeded 1500 children, parents and youth from Palestinian community.

The children presented many paints and sketches and songs related to educational themes.

On the 2nd of May, as part of the GAW in Sudan, Media Forum was held on education funding at the Sudanese Women Union headquarter. With the participation of 109 people including 50  of media people  .

The Coalition specified a session for students under the title “Children Parliamentâ€‌ discussed education financing, from the point of view of children, with the participation of 50 children from different 50 schools.

On May 17th, a Lecture on the strategic and political basis for the formulation and enforcement of international millennium development goals, presented by a member of the Coalition Assembly -Dr. Izz al-Din Hamid with the participation of 65 persons.

On May 26th, the coalition conducted a national workshop on financing education for sustainable development. The workshop targeted numbers of decision makers from the National Council , parliamentarians, politicians and relevant bodies , and worked on two papers:

a. A paper on legislations and policies, that ensures good quality education for all.

b. Investment in Education for sustainable development.

The recommendations of the working papers were raised to the chairman of the National Council, the Deputy of National Council Chairman and President of Education Committee of the National council.

Pledges made by the government to support the coalition are as follows:

-           Increase education finance.

-           Review the legislations and policies regarding education.

-           Increase the teachers’ salaries.

-           Provide opportunities to rehabilitation and training the teachers.