Description
The issues that our organization want to address through campaigning are as follows:
- Track government education budget of 22%;
- Advocate for promotion, reassessment of salaries and recruitment of more teachers;
- Government to provide adequate teaching and learning materials to public schools;
- Government and other partners to build more classrooms due to increase in enrollment of pupils in public schools because of the Free Quality School Education Programme by government;
- SLTU to continue its advocacy for increase in salaries for teachers due to the high cost of living in the country as a result of inflation.
We hope to engage the membership through sensitization meetings with selected union officers at the Branch, District/Zonal and Regional levels. These officers will in turn cascade the campaign message to the wider membership in their respective constituencies. This engagement is intended to build union capacity at the local Branch, District/Zonal, Regional and National levels.
Objectives
- Improved information flow within and outside the union regarding the campaign.
- Strengthened partnership and collaboration.
- Promote transparency and accountability in education financing.
- Ensure consistency with the 22% budget allocation to education.
- Improved capacity of union officers at the various levels on advocacy.
Activities
1. Sensitization of SLTU officers on the campaign.
2. Meetings of Education Stakeholders at regional level:
- meeting with Members of Parliament;
- meetings with Government Institutions (WAEC, MBSSE, TSC and Ministry of Labour and Social Security);
- meetings of the Education For All (EFA) Coalition, Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC), Conference of Principles of Secondary Schools (CPSS), Council of Technical and Vocational Institutions (CHTVI), National Council of Head Teachers (NaCOHT), and Nursery Schools Association (NSA).
3. Radio/TV Panel Discussions, Printing and distribution of Campaign Materials.
4. Budget Tracking Training and Exercise.