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Go public! Fund education 18 March 2025
Togo: Union campaigns to ensure education remains a priority

FESEN, Education International’s member organisation in Togo, is working to identify ways of increasing public funding for education. The union organised a diagnostic and planning workshop during which education unionists drew up an action plan for implementing the goals of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign during 2025.
Togo: Union campaigns to ensure education remains a priority
Equity and inclusion 10 December 2024
Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour

Education unionists from Burundi, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe came together in Malawi to learn about successful local efforts to end child labour. From 1 to 6 December 2024, coordinators and project leaders spearheading the unions’ work against child labour had the opportunity to exchange know-how and good practice...
Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour
Equity and inclusion 14 June 2024
Togo: Raising awareness is the key to combating child labour

A pilot project carried out by the Fédération des Syndicats de l'Education Nationale (Federation of National Education Unions - FESEN) in the region of Sotouboua, in central Togo, is helping to change attitudes so that child labour is no longer considered acceptable. Agricultural and domestic work are the main activities...
Togo: Raising awareness is the key to combating child labour
Leading the profession 21 October 2020
“Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

Cherine Sabry

Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
“Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Union renewal and development 14 October 2020
Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day

Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Union growth 26 August 2020
Togo: Education union calls for improvements to living and working conditions of private-sector teachers

The Fédération des syndicats de l'Éducation nationale (FESEN) has urged Togolese education ministers to tackle the issue of insecurity affecting teachers in the private sector so that “their ordeal can come to an end.”
Togo: Education union calls for improvements to living and working conditions of private-sector teachers