Progress Made and Problems Encountered in the Struggle Against Illiteracy: A Mid-Decade Review - Cooperation to Achieve Education for All

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 105 Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family, published in 1996.

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11 subjects

Child Development Child Survival Declarations Education Illiteracy International Years Literacy Programmes Population Programmes of Action Social Development Women's Advancement

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9 operative paragraphs

Resolution 217 A (III).

Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

Resolution 45/199, annex.

Final Report of the World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs, Jomtien, Thailand, 5-9 March 1990, Inter-Agency Commission (UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank) for the World Conference on Education for All, New York, 1990, appendix 1.

See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Twenty-fifth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions.

See A/45/625.

Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

A/CONF.166/9, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

A/CONF.177/20 and Add.1, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

Report of the Director-General on the Education for All Summit of Nine High-Population Developing Countries (New Delhi, 13-16 December 1993), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Executive Board, document 144 EX/30, annex.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled "Progress made and problems encountered in the struggle against illiteracy: a mid-decade review"; 11/

Notes with appreciation the close collaboration and commendable work being pursued as a follow-up to the International Literacy Year and the World Conference on Education for All by the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations Development Programme;

Commends those Governments which have launched national literacy programmes and attained notable progress in meeting the objectives of the International Literacy Year and those set forth in the World Declaration on Education for All; 4/

Invites Member States, specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to further intensify their efforts to effectively implement the World Declaration on Education for All, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Plan of Action for the Eradication of Illiteracy by the Year 2000, 5/ as well as the relevant commitments and recommendations to promote literacy contained, inter alia, in the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s 6/ of the World Summit for Children, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 7/ the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 8/ the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 9/ and the Delhi Declaration of the Education for All Summit of Nine High-Population Developing Countries, 10/ with a view to better coordinating their activities and increasing their contribution to development;

Appeals anew to Governments and economic and financial organizations and institutions, both national and international, to lend greater financial and material support to the efforts to increase literacy and achieve education for all;

Calls upon the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue assuming the role of lead organization in ensuring an effective follow-up to the International Literacy Year and to pursue, in cooperation with other sponsors of the World Conference on Education for All, the implementation of the World Declaration on Education for All;

Notes with satisfaction the firm commitment and active involvement of many non-governmental organizations, the mass media and the private sector in support of and in the follow-up to the International Literacy Year;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly, at its fifty-second session, in 1997, through the Economic and Social Council, a progress report on the

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implementation process of the education for all objectives, including the recommendations of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All, taking into account the possible measures, if any, to improve the reporting procedure;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session the question of cooperation to achieve education for all under the item on social development.

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