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Education for All Global Monitoring Report
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Chapter 9
Good policy,
good practice
The preceding chapters, particularly Chapters 2 and 7, show that the
global literacy challenge is huge in terms of the hundreds of millions of
people who do not benefit from literacy. Scale is therefore an important
aspect of any policy response to this challenge. The challenge is not just
one of scale, however. It is also one of scope. The thrust of this Report
is that literacy policy should have the goal not only of literate individuals
but also the much broader goal of literate societies, in which all people
can use their literacy to pursue freedoms, opportunities and personal
development and in which literacy contributes to the development of
the economy and the society. This chapter suggests policy priorities
and good practices for countries and for the international community
to assist them in meeting the literacy challenge. It advocates a threepronged
approach to literacy — assuring quality schooling, scaling
up literacy programmes for youth and adults, and developing literate
environments. The chapter focuses particularly on youth and adult
literacy programmes, as school quality was covered in the 2005 Report
and the importance of the literate environment is discussed in Chapter 8.
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