Africa Non-Academic, Academic and Research Workers Educational Network meeting (Kenya)
Date:
4 May, 2018 to 5 May, 2018
Time:
08.30 - 17.00
Location:
Nairobi, Kenya
Event type:
Region:
The Education, Culture and Media Sector was established by Congress 2012 to organize, protect and support workers in the sector. In 2014, the Education Support and Cultural Workers Network (ESCWN) was launched to promote external recognition of school support and cultural services, fight privatisation, promote universal public education as human right and partner with Educational International on joint priorities in the sector. In East and West Africa, an inaugural meeting of the Network was held in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2013. A second meeting of the network was held in Tanzania in 2015 where the name for the network i.e Africa Non-Academic, Academic and Research Workers Educational Network (ANARWEN) was adopted.
The Nairobi meeting aims at fostering and building solidarity towards enhancing trade union rights, fighting against Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the education sector and providing a platform for sharing best practices including challenges facing the education sector in this region. This is in line with the informal meeting of the Education Network which was held during PSI’s Congress in November 2017, during which recent trends were discussed as well as priorities for future work.
It is envisaged that by the end of the meeting, the affiliates from the Sub-Region will have a draft strategy clearly mapping out strategies on how to oppose privatisation and outsourcing of education, and other forms that transfer the delivery of public cultural and educational services to the private sector. We believe one way of attaining this is through coalition building both at local and international level with CSOs and other like-minded organizations.
Draft agenda of the meeting:
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Activities |
Persons |
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Day One |
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8.30am-9.00am
9.00am-10.00am |
Arrival and Registration |
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Opening Prayer |
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Self-Introductions |
Participants |
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Welcome Remarks |
General Secretary-KUSU |
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Chairperson of the Network |
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Sub-Regional Secretary, Sis Everline Aketch |
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Sister Sandra Vermuyten PSI Head Office |
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Brother Peters Adeyemi, PSI President for Africa and Arab Countries to declare the meeting open |
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10.00am-11:00am
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Secretary and members
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11.00-11.30am |
Tea/Coffee Break |
Participants
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11.30am-1.00pm |
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1.00pm-2.30pm |
Lunch Break |
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2.30pm-4.30 pm |
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Sis. Sandra Vermuyten |
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4.30-5.00 pm |
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Day Two |
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9.00am-9.30am |
Registration and recap |
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9.30 am -10.30am |
Building solidarity with other organizations/ |
Sis. Sandra Vermuyten |
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10.30am-11.00am |
Tea/Coffee break |
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11.00am-12.00am |
Strategic plan |
Bro. Peters Adeyemi |
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12.00am-12.30 pm |
Expansion of the network |
Bro. Peters Adeyemi |
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12.30pm-12.50pm |
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Chairperson |
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12.50pm-1.00pm |
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1.00pm |
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More information:
- PSI's Education support and cultural workers web page
- In Canada, entire new school to be built with savings from ditched PPP projects
- Open letter – 88 organisations urge investors to cease support for Bridge International Academies
- TUAC Working Group on Education and Skills (Paris)
- PSI and CSO allies call on investors to cease support for Bridge International Academies
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