A partnership agreement between the Women, Family and Children Ministry and the Tunisian Organisation for Education and the Family (French: OTEF) was inked, on Thursday, to develop bilateral co-operation for the benefit of family’s empowerment and stability and to contribute in achieving sustainable development objectives.

 

This partnership concerns parental education, dialogue and communication culture within the family, supporting immigrant families, empowering families and care for youths and elderly.

 

By virtue of this agreement, the Women, Family and Children Ministry will provide a support in information and documentation for the OTEF, facilitate counseling services by experts for the families and help the OTEF use its spaces for social and cultural programmes and activities.

 

The OTEF, for its part, is committed to work towards consolidating the dialogue culture within the family, strengthening immigrant families’ ties with their home countries and setting up programmes for children and youths during vacations and spare time in order to protect them from social dangers.

 

The OTEF will also organise cultural activities for elderly people in regional centres of elderly protection.

 

According to the agreement, a joint committee made up of representatives of the ministry and the OTEF will meet every six months to monitor and evaluate the implementation of this partnership.

 

Minister of Women, Family and Children Neziha Laabidi stressed that this agreement comes as part of supporting co-operation programmes between the State’s institutions and civil society structures to assist all members of the family, all age ranges and all social categories included.

source: TAP