Syrian education officials receive training on combatting child labour
A series of training workshops organized by the ILO, the Ministry of Education and UNICEF targeted school principals and education officials across Syria.
The ILO held a series of five training workshops targeting education officials at Syria’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The workshops, organized in collaboration with the MOE and UNICEF, targeted education officials from across Syria. The Ministry is aiming to build and develop the capacity of school principals to enhance their managerial skills. The purpose of the ILO intervention was to enhance the capacity of education officials towards combating the worst forms of child labour. The five identical workshops were held in the governorates of Rural Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, Homs, Tartous and Tripoli.
The targeted participants of the workshops were from the MOE’s central training team from the capacity building programme for school principals, working in Syria’s various governorates.
The deputy minister of the MOE Abdulhakeem Hammad opened the workshop by expressing the Ministry’s support for their partnership with UNICEF and the ILO. The training session was deemed as highly engaging and satisfactory for both the trainers and the trainees.
The objectives of the ILO session focused on raising awareness regarding ILO Convention No.138 on Minimum Age and Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour; alerting school principals to the fact that children who drop out of school are at risk of entering the labour market; explaining the role of education and educators in addressing child labour; highlighting latest global data on child labour; introducing educators to the importance of gender equality and the concepts of Decent Work with the purpose of passing this knowledge on to their students. The Ministry officials will, in their turn, offer the training to school principals managing schools across Syrian.
The training session followed active and participatory methods and techniques based on interaction, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas and experiences. The methods included case studies, role-play, exercises, brainstorming, teamwork, and various activities related to the course content.
The targeted participants of the workshops were from the MOE’s central training team from the capacity building programme for school principals, working in Syria’s various governorates.
The deputy minister of the MOE Abdulhakeem Hammad opened the workshop by expressing the Ministry’s support for their partnership with UNICEF and the ILO. The training session was deemed as highly engaging and satisfactory for both the trainers and the trainees.
The objectives of the ILO session focused on raising awareness regarding ILO Convention No.138 on Minimum Age and Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour; alerting school principals to the fact that children who drop out of school are at risk of entering the labour market; explaining the role of education and educators in addressing child labour; highlighting latest global data on child labour; introducing educators to the importance of gender equality and the concepts of Decent Work with the purpose of passing this knowledge on to their students. The Ministry officials will, in their turn, offer the training to school principals managing schools across Syrian.
The training session followed active and participatory methods and techniques based on interaction, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas and experiences. The methods included case studies, role-play, exercises, brainstorming, teamwork, and various activities related to the course content.