Mobilisation and capacity-building of teacher trade union in Indonesia

Mobilisation and capacity-building of teacher trade union in Indonesia RENGO II Executive Summary INS/08/01/REN Indonesia’s TBP approach and specifically the area of child participation and children’s empowerment to be implicated in issues which affect them have benefited significantly from the 2004-2007 RENGO-IPEC project on the adaptation, translation and implement of IPEC’s SCREAM Stop Child Labour programme in several Asian countries, including Indonesia. The project focused on the involvement of trade unions, particularly the Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia (PGRI) , in the implementation of the programme in Indonesia, specifically through the training-of-trainers’ workshop designed to reinforce the capacities of national stakeholders to strengthen sustainability. It is anticipated that the RENGO-IPEC project will not only impact upon the capacities of teachers, the PGRI, students and children generally to support efforts to reduce, prevent and ultimately eliminate child labour, but will also impact upon related Education For All (EFA) activities in Indonesia, including curriculum development IPEC’s overall aim through this programme will be to enhance its ongoing capacity-building and knowledge dissemination efforts with key change agents in Indonesia, particularly the PGRI (EI member in Indonesia), its members, other teachers and educators, children and young people and IPEC field staff in the country. By informing these target groups of the IPEC resource materials, organising capacity-building and implementing a follow-up strategy, it will be possible to ensure their effective use in the classroom, trade union activities and in campaigning and advocacy efforts. Through this strategy, it is anticipated that: • The national movement to tackle child labour and promote education will be strengthened. • Greater coherence and solidarity will be generated within the national trade union movement, with the collaboration of the PGRI and the KSPI, to tackle child labour and promote education effectively, particularly among highly vulnerable groups, such as those involved in child domestic labour, commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. • Efforts will be made with the collaboration of the PGRI, its membership and the wider trade union movement to work with IPEC and existing institutions and bodies established through the IPEC TBP and related programmes to replicate the model of the Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education in Indonesia. • PGRI will become more engaged in national political and decision-making processes on child labour, including those established with IPEC, and in respect of reporting processes and follow-up of core ILO Conventions and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. • Efforts will be made to include media workers and their trade unions in capacity-building workshops to support awareness-raising and to inform and mobilise wider society. • Through the promotion and implementation of the IPEC SCREAM programme, children and young people will become empowered to participate in decisions affecting their lives and the lives of their peers. • Efforts will be made through dialogue with appropriate education authorities and line ministries to explore the possibility of mainstreaming IPEC resource programmes into curricula and training programmes, including teacher training. • Sustainability will be assured through the training of teams of trainers experienced in the IPEC resource programmes, including IPEC field staff.

Project symbol

INS/08/01/REN

Admin unit

CO-Jakarta

Start date

01/07/2008

End date

30/06/2011

Total allocation

151361

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

151361

Development Partners

Japanese Trade Union Confederation

Country/Countries

Indonesia

Outcomes

Child Labour