Bookshelf

• Guidelines for Education in Situations of Emergency and Crisis – EFA Strategic Planning
edited by Kacem Bensalah. This 38-page manual, prepared to assist those elaborating national and regional EFA Plans, deals with the main actions to be implemented in emergency situations. It focuses, inter alia, on strategic planning and human resource development, education for refugees, mechanisms for allocation of resources in crisis situations, and coordination mechanisms.

• Toolkit for Promoting Gender Equality in Education
This toolkit aims to promote the EFA goal of gender parity by 2005 and gender equality by 2015 in Asia. It is the outcome of national and regional workshops in the context of the Gender in Education Network in Asia (GENIA). It is intended to help Education Ministries mainstream gender in education policies. Among the tools it contains are “gender lenses” for analysing curriculum and textbooks, gender responsiveness of Education Ministry Departments and for measuring child-friendliness of schools. Available from UNESCO Bangkok (gender@unescobkk.org )

• HIV/AIDS and Education – A Strategic Approach
Published by UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, this paper presents a overview of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the education sector. It examines the use of educational settings to promote understanding and behaviour to limit the risk of infection. It also sets forth policy questions and priorities that every policy-maker faces in formulating concrete actions for success.
http://portal.unesco.org/aids/iatt-education

• Situation Analysis of Education in Iraq 2003
Once the best in the Arab world, Iraq’s education system has been debilitated by a decade of sanctions, war and looting. This analysis gives an overview of the Iraqi education system and the major issues confronting it. It proposes urgent action to mobilize support for its reconstruction and renewal. This document was prepared prior to the March 2003 conflict.

• Jeunes et Formation Alternatives
Published by UNESCO Haiti and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, this document presents and analyses data and successful experiences in providing alternative education to Haitian youth, in particular those living in difficult circumstances.
E-mail: B.Hadjadj@unesco.org

• Developing Learning Communities –a case study
This document critically examines the meaning of education and learning in selected villages in India. It questions the capacity of formal schooling to cater to these varied learning needs and proposes a methodology aimed at finding, supporting and promoting a pluralistic understanding of education. Published by UNESCO and Aide et Action. (ED-2003/WS/17)

• Literacy, A UNESCO Perspective
The U.N. Literacy Decade (2003-2012) aims at tackling the challenge of giving the more than 800 million illiterate adults access to literacy. This brochure presents UNESCO’s perspective on literacy at the start of the Decade, tracing the lines of international commitment, how the concept of literacy has developed and how it is linked to social development.

• Education, Work and the Future
This CD-Rom is a digital library of selected UNESCO documents in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This improved second version contains more than 14 000 pages, covering a wide range of issues. The first edition was published in 2001.

• Annual Meeting of the Collective Consultation of NGOs on EFA 2003
This General Report and Recommendations for Joint Action present the outcomes of the annual meeting of the CCNGO/EFA Network held in Porto Alegre, 19-23 January 2003 in conjunction with the World Social Forum. The meeting focused on promoting linkages between quality education, civil society participation and alternative globalization.

• New Education for All Advocacy Pack
This EFA Pack, contains a 6-minute video, a poster on the six Education-for-All goals, plus postcards and stickers. The materials exist in English, French and Spanish and the video is in PAL, SECAM and NTSC.