The event was organized by the RMF through ACCESS-MENA Project in partnership with the Higher Council for Childhood (HCC), the Lebanese Union for Child Welfare (LUCW), Save the Children and in collaboration with the CDS.

82 participants from different educational institutions as well as public figures attended the conference. 37 participants stayed for the workshop that followed the conference.

The event was part of a series of similar activities organized in the 5 Mohafazat, to bring out suggestions and recommendations on the Mechanism of Application of Compulsory Free Education. These recommendations would be pooled from all the workshops, summarized and discussed for the consensus in a meeting to be organized by HCC for the National Strategy for the Education for All.

The member of the cultural committee of Sin El Fil Municipality Mrs Gretta Tawil moderated the plenary session . The president of the Municipality of Sin El Fil welcomed the audience, and thanked the RMF and ACCESS-MENA Project for including the Sin El Fil Municipality in the community activities.

The President of the LUCW, Mrs. Fadia Othman Al Assaad exposed the union achievements throughout the years and its role in helping with different association, children with special needs.

The technical advisor of RMF's ACESS-MENA Project, Dr. Alyssar Radi presented the project and its objectives, aiming at improving access to quality education programs as a means to combat exploitive child labor.

Dr. Elie Mikhael explained the procedures of the series of workshops conducted by the HCC program throughout Lebanon in partnership with different active. He also pointed out that without the cooperation of the civil society through active NGOs, it would have been difficult to achieve the objective of implementing the National Strategy.

The participants for the workshop that followed were divided into four working groups. Four main subjects were discussed:
• Quality of Education: how to improve the quality of education in public schools and reconsidering the laws concerning that issue.
• School dropouts: children who left school due to several problems, economic, social and failure.
• Compulsory free education: review of the related laws and create the mechanism to proceed and execute the compulsory and free education to all the children.
• Comprehensive education: discuss how to reach and apply one single unified curriculum amongst public schools.

At the conference

Attendance

Dr. Alyssar Radi presenting the project

Workshop moderaters

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