UNESCO is committed to supporting effective literacy policies and programmes. To that effect, the Organisation honours excellence and innovation in the field of literacy throughout the world. Every year, on the occasion of International Literacy Day (8 September), UNESCO awards the ...
UIL is planning a number of activities for International Literacy Day (8 September) and the days leading up to it. In 2012, the theme is “Literacy and Peace”, emphasizing the need to unlock the full potential of literacy to act as a force for peace. Literacy can equip individuals, their families...
The new 2012 International Literacy Day page is now available on the updated...
Mother tongue-based multilingual education is a lever for quality in education in multilingual African contexts. Building on UNESCO’s prior work with the African region UNESCO/BREDA, UIL and the African Academy of Languages recently collaborated with the Summer Institute of Linguistics in...
Mr Wahidi Mohammedi Gul
(Literacy Consultant, UNESCO Kabul, Afghanistan, Scholar in July 2012)
Mr Mohammed Gul Wahidi (centre) from Afghanistan received technical support from UIL’s Literacy and Basic Skills Programme to develop key elements of a draft literacy...
17 participants representing the governmental National Literacy and Awareness Secretariat (NLAS), the Curriculum and Basic Education Units of the Department of Education, the UNESCO National Commission (NatCom), different universities and non-governmental organisations met from 4 to 8 June 2012...
EUR-Alpha’s fifth partnership meeting, taking place from 13 to 15 June 2012 in Brussels, was attended by more than 40 learners, tutors and managers from governmental and non-governmental literacy organisations from different European countries. The main objectives were to finalise preparations...
In the context of the 60th Anniversary of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), an ancillary meeting was held on the subject of measuring...
UIL organised, in collaboration with UNESCO/BREDA, the first technical workshop for the RAMAA project from 9 to 11 February 2011 in Senegal. The focus of the workshop was to prepare the joint literature research and develop the concept for a competence framework which will serve as the research...
The Non-Formal Education Centre (NFEC) under the Ministry of Education, Nepal and the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu co-organised a “National Workshop on Capacity Assessment Exercise in the NFE Sub-Sector” in Kathmandu on 13 March 2012. The capacity assessment exercise involved around 300 people...
