The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) promotes family literacy by compiling and disseminating examples of good practice and research. UIL is also involved in capacity-development activities to pilot family literacy programmes in a number of countries.

Role of family literacy

Family literacy and learning programmes can play a critical role in breaking the intergenerational cycle of education deprivation and disadvantage by helping to prevent school failure and dropout. Intergenerational approaches to literacy and learning build bridges between formal, non-formal and informal learning and utilize synergies between the different education sub-systems and institutions.