THERE are a lot of behavioural issues in schools such as gender-based violence (GBV), an official says. The Education Department’s coordinator for gender equality and social inclusion (Gesi) Claribel Waide revealed this following a workshop attended by secondary and primary school inspectors and guidance officers in New Guinea Islands (NGI) in East New Britain’s Kokopo last week. The workshop covered behaviour management, social support and gender equality and social inclusion training programme. Waide said the purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness to education officers who were the main inspectors from primary and secondary sectors, Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) sector and guidance officers in the NGI region on school-related gender-based violence (GBV), behaviour management policy and Gesi in school policy. Waide said he hoped that through the workshop, participants could go back to their schools and develop behaviour management policies for their schools.
“We have participants coming from ENB, West New Britain, Manus, New Ireland and Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Arob),” Waide said. He further stated that there were a lot school GBV-related issues happening in the NGI region as well as in the country but data was not recorded and also data was one thing that many schools didn’t collect. “The reasons why the data is not collected is because maybe they think that school-related gender-based violence is just in-house or in-school matter so they do not really keep and record the data of such incidents,” Waide said. During the workshop Waide encouraged the officers to go back to their provinces and start collecting and keeping data because they needed to update the United Nations and other UN agencies on how PNG is doing in terms of keeping data on school-related GBV. TheNational/ PNG Education News Also read Comments are closed.
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