On 15 November 2019 at UNESCO’s 40th General Conference in Paris, the Member States agreed to adopt a new UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy (2020-2025).
For UNESCO’s Education Sector, constituted by its Headquarters, its institutes, and field offices around the world, this Strategy will be a guiding framework for the promotion of youth and adult literacy in the coming years.
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the University of Hamburg hosted an international research seminar on literacy and lifelong learning on 12 September 2019. It provided a platform for discussing recent developments in literacy and lifelong learning from a research perspective...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning calls on donors to close the funding gap
Paris, France : A new UNESCO cost analysis shows that US $14 billion (1) will be needed if the 20 countries with the lowest literacy rates (2) and the E-9 countries (3) are to achieve functional...
In 2017, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) received generous financial support from the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany to implement a project whose aim is to empower vulnerable women and their families in sub-Saharan Africa by providing them with...
Experts from around the world gathered at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg on 28 and 29 May 2019 to discuss UNESCO's new strategy for literacy and to determine the steps needed to promote literacy within the framework of lifelong learning for all.
The two-day expert...
25 March 2019 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices Database , an online collection of best practice literacy programmes from around the world.
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As part of its Action Research: Measuring Literacy Programme Participants’ Learning Outcomes (RAMAA) programme, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) was invited to provide teaching units for the regional Engineering in Design and Management of Educational Alternatives (ICGAE) Master'...
‘ I wanted to learn how to read and write in order to be independent, to be able to depend on myself. For a living, I cook and sell meals. I now have a webpage with my menus and I can also keep account of the payments of my clients .’ (AMLL learner in Mexico)
Carrying out an international evaluation of literacy achievement among youth and adults implies knowing which skills to evaluate.
The methodology used within the framework of the second phase of RAMAA II (Recherche-action sur la mesure des apprentissages des bénéficiaires des...
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has just published the SDG 4 Data Digest 2018: Data to Nurture Learning , which presents current assessment...
