The Yemeni Coalition Hold a Consultative meeting with Civil Society Organizations to Support the Free and Compulsory Education in Yemen 2014

Under the patronage of the Secretary of the Sanaa and within the activities of the International Day of Literacy, the Yemeni coalition for education for All conducted a consultative meeting with civil society organizations to support the free and compulsory education in Yemen. This meeting was conducted with the participation of members of the National Dialogue Conference, UNESCO, Chamber of Commerce, the Secretariat of the Capital, the Literacy Eradication Body, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Information, University of Sana'a, along with members of the Yemeni Coalition.

This meeting was conducted within the Framework of CSEF project in Yemen, where the Yemeni Coalition identified one of its goals to include constitutional text about free and compulsory education and supporting girls' education in the new Yemeni Constitution. This meeting was conducted to build real and active partnerships that can contribute to activate the policy of free and compulsory education.

The most important results of this meeting:

-The willingness of the National Dialogue Conference members to be a partner in supporting the educational process as well as to deliver the vision of the coalition to the National Dialogue Conference including the free and compulsory education and to follow-up with the specialized department in the Conference to include the free and compulsory education within the agenda of the National Dialogue Conference that will be submitted to the specialized committee responsible for drafting the constitution. The coalition followed-up with the specialized department to present this demand at the closing session of the conference.

-Preparation of a common vision about the free and compulsory education that was submitted to the National Dialogue Conference

- The approval of the commercial room to allocate %30 of its budget for publicity to support the educational process

-The UNESCO had shown its full support of the coalition to support the educational process.

-The approval of the Ministry of Information to prepare awareness programs to support the educational process

-The Ministry of Education had confirmed its full support of the coalition and its activities

-The approval of the Capital Secretariat to support the educational process

- Sana’a University had confirmed its willingness to provide the coalition, the Ministry of Education or Illiteracy Eradication body with all the needed scientific researches, and studies which could serve the educational process

-The agreement of all participants to create a consultant body headed by the capital Secretary to support the coalition in order to serve and support education

-The approval of Illiteracy Eradication body to provide all the needed information and facilities.

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