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UNESCO’s action to provide people with the skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information in their professional and personal lives.

UNESCO’s main strategy in the area of Information Literacy consists of awareness-raising about the importance of information literacy at all levels of the education process – basic education, primary and secondary education, technical and vocational training and lifelong education – and of establishing guidelines for integrating information literacy issues in curricula.

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Projects on information literacy
approved for funding by the Bureau of the Information for All (IFAP) Council at its Eighth Meeting on 4-6 April 2005:

• ICT literacy: Promoting ICT within the Educational and Information Sectors (Nigeria)
  
  
• Electronic Libraries in Rural Areas for Reducing Digital Divide in Central Asia (Kazakhstan)
  
  
• Building Human Resource Capacity of Ghana’s Aspnet ICT Centre (Ghana)
  
  
• Information Literacy Capacity Building for Vietnamese Academic Librarians (Viet Nam)
  
  
• Young Women’s Leaders Project (YWLP) (Uganda)
  
  
• Research on National Information Literacy Education in China and Indonesia (China)
  
  
• Secondary Schools’ Participation in Information Literacy Programmes (Ghana)
  
  
• Rural Youth Information Center (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  
  
• Access to Information: Raising awareness of libraries on copyright and related issues (CIS Countries)
  
  
• Information Literacy Training Programme for Public Librarians across the Commonwealth (International)
  
  
• Recruiting and Training Library Cadets (RTLC) Programme for a sustainable Bahamas (Bahamas)
  
  
• Establishing Information Literacy Competence Levels of Library Workers (South Africa)
  
  
• Training of School Teachers on Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications of ICTs (Egypt)
  
  
• Promotion of Information Literacy in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia)