This publication aims to provide a gender perspective on HIV-preventative education. It reviews existing educational stategies and IEC materials from this perspective discussing how to develop empowering educational strategies and gender-senstivie IEC materials.

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The UNESCO Institute for Education, with its operational base in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in Germany, and in Europe, has an important role as a UNESCO educational institution: the excellent academic and political relationship between the Institute and all world regions are a treasure “hidden” at the Albert Ballin house in the Feldbrunnenstraße. This potential may well bear fruit in the coming years, in our own enlightened self-interest, both for applied educational research in Germany and for the further development of programmes in Europe and throughout the world.

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THE MOST POPULATED REGION in the world, Asia is also the most diverse. Highly industrialized nations exist side by side predominantly rural countries. There are large income gaps among the countries as well within these nations. There are big cities at the same time that there are rural populations. In China for example, 900 million out of the 1.2 billion people live in rural areas. Asians practice different faiths from Islam, Buddhism, Christianity to Hinduism. They belong to hundreds of ethnic communities and speak different languages. The range of colonizers from the Americans, Dutch,...

As UNESCO’s international reference centre for lifelong learning, UIE, over its thirty years of experience in this field, has initiated several research activities in this area and collaborated with a number of institutions and researchers all over the world. Building on these experiences in elucidating a conceptual framework of lifelong learning, the Institute has been reviewing, at the onset of the new millennium, existing lifelong learning perspectives as well as elaboration on new perspectives. The Institute has come to the conclusion that it can contribute to the emergence of a...

In many developing countries, literacy has been seen as the key to 'women's development' resulting in a proliferation of women's literacy programmes run by both Governments and Non-Governmental Organisations. Nepal is one such example of a country where literacy programmes have been used extensively as an entry point for involving women in development activities. My own experience of working in this field in Nepal has made me question what impact these literacy programmes have on women's lives: in particular, I have wondered whether there is a strong link between gaining literacy skills...

In spite of the explosion of knowledge and new media, access to adult education documentation and information services remains a dream for many researchers, policy-makers, community groups, businesses, adult learners, educators of adults and others engaged in lifelong learning around the world. Since adult education documentation and information centres lack sufficient financial and human resources, they cannot adequately fulfil their tasks at a time of increasing demand for adult education and training.

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This publication reviews the findings of a study on the financing of adult learning in Europe. It presents the different patterns of public financial support to NGOs in Europe and exposes current policies for supporting financially the partcipation of indviduals in organized adult learning.

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This publication is the fruit of five years of empirical research conducted in 24 countries from every region of the world. The UNESCO Institute for Education worked with 24 national teams and researchers who took part in three research seminars organised by the authors. The two initial meetings, in May and October 1994, decided on the study framework and tools and a sampling plan for the policies to be studied. At the third seminar in 1996, national analyses were used to develop a preliminary transnational analysis.

One hundred and twenty-two policies (legislation, government...

It has always been assumed that education improves the lives of people and paves the way for more democratic communities. For women, several researches have demonstrated how access to education is correlated with a decline in birth rate or an improvement of children’s well-being. That two thirds of the world’s 800 million illiterates are women is also an indication of how millions of women, in this age of information superhighways, are still deprived of a basic human right. Such measurements, while necessary, present only a partial picture of a complex ideological, political and...

This booklet reflects the questions raised at the workshop ‘’Adult Learning, Democracy and Peace’’ at the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) held in July 1997 in Hamburg.

The workshop had the important role of examining the relationship between adult learning, democracy, citizenship, gender, civil society and a culture of peace. It discussed adult learning strategies that are required to meet democratic aspirations, foster a culture of peace, build identities, take into account the globalization of economies, deal with the ecological threats, cultivate...