The third issue of the electronic CONFINTEA VI Follow-up Bulletin features activities undertaken in pursuit of the Belém Framework for Action from July 2011 to January 2012, both within and across countries. It highlights efforts invested to produce national progress reports on the state of...

Meetings are being organised in some Latin American countries to support the preparation of National CONFINTEA VI Progress Reports. In Brazil, for example, the National Literacy and Youth and Adult Education Commission (CNAEJA) which includes stakeholders from different sectors around the...

Following CONFINTEA VI, a multi-stakeholder CONFINTEA Advisory Group was set up in early 2010 to support UNESCO and UIL in the international coordination of the CONFINTEA process and in implementing and monitoring the Belém Framework for Action. The Advisory Group, whose original membership was...

UIL’s CONFINTEA Fellowship Programme is a means to strengthen capacities within Member States to implement the commitments of the Belém Framework for Action by providing guidance on decisions for the promotion and revitalization of adult education within the perspective of lifelong learning....

Country teams will be set up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia to prepare the first post-CONFINTEA VI national progress reports on adult education and learning. This is the result of a sub-regional capacity-building meeting for...

Country teams will be set up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia to prepare the first post-CONFINTEA VI national progress reports on adult education and learning.This is the result of a sub-regional capacity-building meeting for...

The Regional CONFINTEA VI Follow-up meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean took place in Mexico in May 2011. Delegates at the meeting worked on finalising a draft matrix of follow-up actions in the Latin American and Caribbean context, developed by the Regional UNESCO Bureau in Santiago (...

Making visible and valuing individuals’ real competences, in order to progress in lifelong learning, in employment and in personal development, have been the goal of the UIL programme on the recognition, validation and accreditation of non-formal and informal learning. The development of UNESCO...

UIL staff gave a presentation on the CONFINTEA VI follow-up process at a regional conference on community learning centres (CLCs), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 31 August - 3 September. The Conference addressed a key recommendation of the Belém Framework for Action (BFA), to create 'multi-purpose...

Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, 2011 is a Special Edition, entitled CONFINTEA VI follow-up: The challenges of moving from rhetoric to action, and g uest-edited by Carolyn Medel-Añonuevo, Carlos Alberto Torres and Richard Desjardins.

The edition includes articles that survey the adult education...