On 26–28 August 2013, around 350 participants met at a National Forum in Luanda to discuss the challenges of reaching the Education for All (EFA) goals ...

Participants including 120 government officials, youth from vulnerable backgrounds and civil society stakeholders from 17 countries convened at the International Policy Forum on Literacy and Life Skills Education for Vulnerable Youth through Community Learning Centres (Jakarta, 20 – 22...

The winners of the 2013 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes were announced on 22 August. Two of the award-winning programmes are featured in UIL’s Effective Literacy Practices Database (LitBase).

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From 29 July to 7 August 2013 a workshop to review items was held at the Centre National de Ressources Éducationnelles (CNRE) in Senegal with scientific support provided by Giselle Boisvert, an education specialist commissioned by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

This...

From 5 to 10 August 2013 a workshop was held in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), in the premises of the Association for the Promotion of Non-Formal Education (APENF) to finalize tools for the main survey Action Research on the measurement of learning outcomes for beneficiaries of literacy programmes...

One in ten young people, most of them from Asia and Africa, lack the literacy and life skills they need for everyday life, to earn a living and contribute to community development. Addressing such learning needs is a major challenge for government and civil society.

To understand how...

Around 100 delegates from 13 E-9, SAARC and LIFE countries attended an International Conference entitled “Achieving Literacy for All: Effective, innovative approaches to scale up literacy, reduce gender disparities and create a literate world”. They discussed innovative approaches to improving...

Mr El Habib Nadir, director of the struggle against illiteracy in Morocco and national coordinator of the “Action research on measuring literacy programme participants’ learning outcomes” project (RAMAA), led a workshop outlining the national results of RAMAA. This meeting was held on the 23rd...

UNESCO provides focused support to the government of Mali to reinforce the country’s capacities in the training of educators ( formation des enseignants ) with a view to achieving the EFA goals. A series of interventions and workshops is being undertaken to that end in the framework of the so-...

During the month of June, UIL welcomed the 3 rd group of education professionals from Nigeria. Since April, the Institute has hosted altogether ten scholars. The scholarship, which has been financially supported by a grant from the Nigerian government, enabled each of the ten senior personnel...