The CONFINTEA Portal is an entry point to the follow-up process of the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI). Its overall purpose is to monitor the comprehensive CONFINTEA agenda at the heart of which is the promotion of adult learning and education in a lifelong and...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) recently published its second Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE). Drawing on data gathered from 141 countries , it reviews progress in...
The Belém Framework for Action , adopted by 144 countries at the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI), elaborates recommendations to improve policy, governance, financing, participation and the quality of adult literacy and adult education in the framework of lifelong...
Adult literacy is a major challenge in the African region. Despite the progress made in primary school enrolment and adult literacy rate, the number of illiterate adults (aged 15 and over) in Africa has been on the increase since the Dakar EFA Forum in 2000. Yet ensuring basic education for all...
UIL promotes increased political and financial commitment to youth and adult education to support the process of developing and implementing holistic, diversified, cross-sectoral and integrated policies and strategies which embed literacy as a foundation for lifelong learning in Africa....
UIL has formed an Interagency Advisory Group to strengthen discussion among lead agencies on recognition, validation and accreditation. Representatives include the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Centre for...
This year’s LitCam event took place on 4 and 5 October 2010 in Frankfurt under the theme “Literacy and Human Rights”. Keynote speakers were Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Alberto Estanislao Sileoni, Minister of Education, Argentina (the 2010...
A key advocacy issue for UIL is building holistic and integrated education systems in Africa. UNESCO is working with the education sector in African countries to plan responses that expand learning opportunities for children, youth and adults, and connect all means of learning – formal, non-...
UIL has mainstreamed the promotion of mother-tongue-based multilingual education within its major programmes (CONFINTEA, LIFE and Priority Region Africa) as an important principle for Education for All and lifelong learning. Since the colonial period, education systems in many African countries...
The International Literacy Day 2010 puts the emphasis on women, who account for two thirds of the world’s 796 million illiterate adults. The theme “The Power of Women’s Literacy” , points to the transformational effect that literacy can have on women’s lives and those of their families,...
