REGIONAL SEMINAR FSM-UNESCO-CGT/FL-CSG-CSDT-CDSA-CODETRAG
TOPIC:AFRICA EDUCATION, the Key to Regional Development
From October 28 to 31, 2013, Libreville (GABON)
FINAL DECLARATION
In collaboration between WFTU, UNESCO and Gabon unions CGT / FL, CSG, TDSB, CDSA, CODETRAG, it was eld in Libreville, Gabon, the Regional Seminar gathering Francophone Africa trade unions from October 29 to 31, 2013 under the general theme : AFRICA EDUCATION ,THE KEY TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
Thus, members from the following countries :
GABON, CAMEROON, D.R CONGO, SENEGAL, NIGER, SUDAN, meeting in the seminar have in connection with the Athens Pact and all the debates that arose from the main themes, made the statement next round:
• Education is and remains the key to the development of Africa for the benefit of the population;
• Education should be free, secular, compulsory and with quality that will shape the personalities and performed with scientific knowledge and critical thinking and thinking according to the needs of people and the working class ;
• Education must prepare responsible citizens and not just labor ;
• Unions are meeting in Libreville against the privatization of education and other strategic sectors which should belong to the state and not private;
• They must operate on the basis of the needs of the people. In this samevein ,education is an inalienable right of the people and not acommodity;
• Education must train managers responsible and aware of their mission, their suitability for real development ;
• Unions meeting in Libreville denounce violations of trade union rights and freedoms of teachers and recommend to the Governments strict compliance with the Conventions and Recommendations of the ILO ratified for the welfare of the people. They urge other unions working to rally the WFTU and class struggle unions for the final victory of the working class ;
• The education must be accessible to all because it is a factor of development of a nation.
• Unions meeting in Libreville must take concerted actions to address the problems of education identified in this work;
• In the ethics of rights in general, education must respect the cultural rights of peoples and not infringe or restrict them extent that these cultural rights are not harmful to human and peoples’ rights ;
• Allocation and improved funding for education that meet the real needs of society. It should be good governance of these funds and the establishment of a robust and reliable system of education that is consistent with the real needs of the population. We must examine the case of repetition and other defects which do not allow good integration in the education of children;
• Lack of monitoring and evaluation of the results of developed programs ;
• we need a program based on a consensus basis and unrelated individuals ;
• The members gathered around the seminar recommended the qualitative and quantitative improvement as needed and continuous training of teachers ;
• The students also recommended examining the possibility of having a teacher of high level staff especially at the base ;
• we need a development of child care facilities meeting the standards to avoid over crowded classrooms of students and reduce levels of individualized training children, we must develop child care facilities respecting the ratio student- teacher by teaching class;
•Governments should establish an adequacy training – job program, that is to say form according to the actual needs of the economy;
• Governments should establish plans programs incorporating all educations take holders : Government, teachers, unions, parents, international institutions (UNESCO, etc.)
• Governments should improve the living conditions and work of teachers ;
• Governments must respect the commitments made in the negotiations with the social partners ;
• The participants thank UNESCO for its investment in measures to improve the education system integrator and global ;
• Finally, participants support and urge the WFTU not to tire in its class struggle and internationalism for the well being of people with a fair distribution of income.
Libreville, October 31, 2013
THE SEMINARIANS
