United Nations Literacy Decade : Education for All

A/RES/57/166View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98 Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2003–2011

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/65/183

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2011	A/RES/65/183	United Nations Literacy Decade : Education for All	1,857	54%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/154	United Nations Literacy Decade : Education for All	1,221	63%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/140	United Nations Literacy Decade : education for all	1,081	72%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/149	United Nations Literacy Decade : education for all	951	64%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/166	United Nations Literacy Decade : education for all	639	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Development Strategies Education Educational Policy Financial Assistance International Decades Literacy Literacy Programmes Policy Making Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Report Preparation Resources Mobilization

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on an international plan of action for the United Nations Literacy Decade;³

³See A/57/218 and Corr.1.

Welcomes the International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade;

Appeals to all Governments to reinforce political will, mobilize adequate national resources, develop more inclusive policy-making environments and devise innovative strategies for reaching the poorest and most marginalized groups and for seeking alternative formal and non-formal approaches to learning with a view to achieving the goals of the Decade;

Urges all Governments to take the lead in coordinating the activities of the Decade at the national level, bringing all relevant national actors together in a sustained dialogue on policy formulation, implementation and evaluation of literacy efforts;

Appeals to all Governments and professional organizations to strengthen national and professional educational institutions in their countries with a view to expanding their capacity and promoting the quality of education;

Appeals to all Governments and to 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 the goals of education for all and those of the Decade, through, inter alia, the 20/20 initiative,⁴ as appropriate;

⁴See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II, para. 88 (c).

Invites Member States, the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as well as relevant intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations, to intensify their efforts to implement effectively the International Plan of Action;

Decides that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization should take a coordinating role in stimulating and catalysing the activities undertaken at the international level within the framework of the Decade in a manner that is complementary to and coordinated with the ongoing process of education for all;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to prepare a report on the implementation of the International Plan of Action for submission to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family”, a sub-item entitled “United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all”.

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