Solutions+to+education

By:Fatiah Nicole D'Orfeo

As you know education in Ethiopia is a major problem, although many organizations are trying to fix this problem 1 step at a time. There are many organizations that are doing this, UNICEF, COEEF, UN, and many more. Though the organization I think has helped education in Ethiopia the greatest is UNESCO. UNESCO has done many great things for Ethiopia and its education problem. Ethiopia joined UNESCO on July 1, 1955. Since then they have created IICBA or International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa that is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This program focuses on the country to access a quality education and training teachers to become education professionals for schools. In another program Ethiopia participates in, along with 34 other countries in the UNESCO Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE). This is a 10 year program that UNESCO started that is aimed at achieving goals of the UN Literacy decade that started in 2003 and is going to end in 2012. Ethiopia is also involved in TTISSA, a program also started by U NESCO that, which is about restructuring national teacher policies and the teacher’s education. UNESCO in Ethiopia also has a close cooperation with the UN and other stakeholders to meet the goals of yet another program “Education for all”. U NESCO is also such a helpful organization that they had from U NESCO. Therefore, as you can see, UNESCO has done a great deal of things to help Ethiopia and their worldwide problem due to the lack of education. They have started programs, organizations, and even opened an office in Ethiopia to help them with education. UNESCO just goes to show people what an organization can do for a problem like education in a country like Ethiopia that has had a very bleak past. Organizations that do a lot can help problems like this one.