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GAW
2004 was an effort to sensitise the masses
and policy makers towards the appalling
state of education and to generate positive
responses and commitments for enhanced
endeavors towards the achievement of Dakar
Goals that seek to eliminate gender disparity
by 2005.
Working
Group for Global Action Week (WG4GAW) comprising of representatives from Global
March, Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF),
South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude
(SACCS), Plan India, National Coalition
for Education (NCE), Action for Ability
Development and Inclusion (AADI), India
Alliance for Child Rights (IACR) and CARE
was formulated in 2004 to plan and coordinate
state level activities. Major teachers'
Unions, in particular AIPTF, AIFTO, AICHEA
and many other local and state level Organizations
also worked in close coordination with
the Alliance in order to effectuate the
lobbying and advocacy at the village level
by involving the panchayats, local political
leaders and policy implementers. This
group resulted in facilitation of overall
implementation of the activities, capacity
building and providing other support to
the participants.
Based
on the experiences of GAW 2004, held in
13 states, the children missing out on
education and the reasons for the same
were identified. It was realized that
even after 5 years of schooling only 40%
of children attain basic levels of learning.
50% of boys, and 58% of girls’ dropout
before completing primary education, while
30% of schools lack blackboards and 65.4%
lack basic materials. GAW 2004 highlighted
that it is not only the girls who miss
out on education; disabled children, children
of SC/ST, children displaced by natural
calamities and those employed as child
labor are also a part of children who
are missing an education. Factors for
this are legion, including poverty, employment
as child labor, huge distance of school
from homes, approach of parents towards
usefulness of education etc.
Objectives
of GAW 2004
- Lobbying by the children at the state
and national level on the issue of
education to influence the implementing
agencies, local administration, panchayats
and political parties in the run up
to the general elections.
- National consultation among children
from Delhi and different states of
India for identifying impediments
to the achievement of Dakar Goals,
suggesting ways to overcome them and
to draft a charter of demands to this
effect.
- Presentation of the Charter of demands
to the President of India at the central
level and to the Governors in the
respective state capitals as the Culmination
Event.
- Evolving a document consisting of
the critique of the current education
policies for suggesting ways to improve
the quality and making it enjoyable,.
(for distribution among the media,
political parties and voters to give
leverage for lobbying activities)
- Highlighting the state specific issues
related to education through coordination
committees.
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