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Global Action Week (GAW)

In October 1999, on the eve of the World Education Forum, a coalition of civil society organisations joined forces to launch "Global Campaign for Education". GCE was founded by Action Aid, Education International, Oxfam International and the Global March Against Child Labour, and currently represents developmental NGOs and teachers' unions in more than 100 countries.

GCE promotes quality education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory and quality education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

Global Action Week (GAW) for Education, under the aegis of GCE, has been celebrated annually during the month of April from the year 2000, in order to generate mass awareness on the issue of education. We demand governments to live up to their promises made on education five years ago when they signed up to the Millennium Development Goals for ending world poverty. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set out eight priority actions to halve world poverty by 2015. This year, they will break the first of their promises - to get as many girls as boys into classrooms by 2005.

In order to coordinate the activities of Global Action Week in India a coalition, Working Group for Global Action Week (WG4GAW) was formulated in 2004.

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Global Action Week 2005 - “Educate to End Poverty” - 24th - 30th April 2005

Millions of children and adults in over 100 countries will deliver an urgent message to world governments - education is the key to end poverty.

GAW 2005 aims to be an effort to bring together all civil society networks, NGOs Teacher Unions etc. with major focus on the activity to “Send my friend to school”. During this week we would not only mobilize the masses and children, but also lobby with the parliamentarians to keep their promises on education with prime focus on Girls’ Education.

In 2005, Christian Childrens Fund (CCF), joined as a partner of WG4GAW, giving it a wider sphere.

Objectives for GAW 2005

  • Strengthening the advocacy and lobbying with the Parliamentarians on the issue of allocation of 6% GDP, Gender Parity goal and quality education.
  • etworking and alliance building along with the Capacity building of the partners and the masses.
  • Colossal sensistisation and mass mobilization to create a demand for education and transparency in the education policies.

Area of Operation

The activities were carried out at District, State and National Level to develop a unique intervention model where the vicious cycle of Illiteracy, Poverty and Child labour would be broken through simultaneous interventions at policy and organisation levels through advocacy and campaigning. The states which were involved in GAW 2005:- Punjab, Haryana, UP, MP, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu.

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Global Action Week 2004 - “Missing an Education” - 19th - 25th April 2004

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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