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C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Country Activities During 2003-2004 3 CHAPTER 2: The Regional Resource Team 7 I. Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) II. Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) 8 Resource and Training Consortium (ARTC) III. Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE) 9 IV. Christian Blind Mission 10 V. SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) International 11 CHAPTER 3: Issues During the UNLD 13 I. Programme Effectiveness 13 Ms. Maria Khan, ASPBAE II. Community Participation 15 Mr. Kazi Rafiqul Alam, Dhaka Ahsnia Mission III. Gender Equality 16 APPEAL, UNESCO Bangkok IV. People with Disabilities 17 Mr. William Brohier, CBM ANNEXES Annex 1. UNLD Draft Proposal and Plan 21 Annex 2. UNLD International Plan of Action 39 Annex 3. Regional Resource TOR and Strategies 55 Annex 4. List of UNESCO Offices and UNLD Partner 63 Organizations
Introduction In December 2001, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to establish the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), which would begin in 2003 and end in 2012. This action occurred in response to the major global challenge posed by illiteracy in a world characterized by the rapid - but uneven - development of information and communication technologies. The goal of the UNLD is to enable people everywhere to communicate effectively within their own communities and with the outside world. The motto is “Literacy for All: A voice for all, learning for all.” The Literacy Decade was established for three reasons. First, in the age of “globalization,” there are still an estimated 800 million adult illiterates (two-thirds of whom are women), not to mention the over 100 million school-age children who are not in any classroom. Second, these figures indicate the inadequacy of literacy efforts at both national and international levels. Third, basic education, of which literacy is a key learning tool, has been recognized as a human right for over fifty years. In response to these factors, efforts undertaken during the UNLD are to target the poorest and most marginal social groups (including women) and to accompany initiatives to reduce poverty. These efforts will also contribute to the Education for All (EFA) goal to increase literacy rates 50% by the year 2015. According to the draft proposal and plan for the UNLD (Annex 1), “Literacy policies and programmes today require going beyond the limited view of literacy that has dominated in the past. Literacy for all requires a renewed vision of literacy….” In order to survive in today‘s globalized world, it has become necessary for everyone to learn new forms of literacy and to develop the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use information in a variety of ways. The International Plan of Action for the Literacy Decade (Annex 2) identifies six areas of emphasis in activities to achieve literacy for all: 1. Policy change that encourages local participation and links literacy promotion with strategies to reduce poverty; 2. More flexible literacy programmes, adapted to local conditions, that enable learners to move on to more formal learning opportunities; 3. Capacity-building to help literacy instructors, managers and programmes to function more effectively; 4. More empirical research to support policy change (for example, the long-term impact of literacy and improved local community participation; 5. Community participation and ownership of literacy programmes; and 6. Monitoring and evaluation of programmes to determine more reliable indicators of progress, both in terms of numbers of participants and overall impact. The vast Asia-Pacific region still has large numbers of illiterates, especially in South and West Asia, where there are also pronounced differences between the literacy rates of men and women. Thus, this region will be a major focus of attention as the Literacy Decade advances. Activities in a number of countries have already gotten under way. On 8 September 2003, International Literacy Day, UNESCO and Thailand’s Ministry of Education organized the Asia-Pacific regional launch of the UNLD. To celebrate the occasion, there were approximately 100 international participants from UNESCO Member States, as well as a number of Thai citizens working in non-formal education. This event was organized in conjunction with the CONFINTEA V Review Meeting and EFA Coordinators Meeting for East and South-East Asia.
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