United Nations Literacy Decade : Education for All

A/RES/63/154View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55d United Nations Literacy Decade : education for all, published in 2009.

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?

18 subjects

Capacity Building Coordination Within UN System Data Collection Development Strategies Educational Development Educational Institutions Educational Policy Financial Assistance Illiteracy Inter-Agency Cooperation International Cooperation International Decades Literacy Policy Making Poverty Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Resources Mobilization

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the implementation of the International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade;⁴

⁴See A/63/172.

Takes note also of the summary outcomes of the Regional Conferences in Support of Global Literacy, held in Azerbaijan, China, India, Mali, Mexico and Qatar in 2007 and 2008,⁵ which indicate that the second half of the Decade should develop appropriate networks for greater regional collaboration;

⁵Available from http://www.unesco.org/education/en/literacy/conferences.

Recognizes that a renewed collective commitment will be needed if the objectives of the Decade are to be met;

Calls upon Member States to further reinforce political will, giving literacy higher priority within their educational planning and budgeting;

Appeals to all Governments to develop reliable literacy data and information and more inclusive policymaking environments and to devise innovative strategies for reaching the groups disproportionately affected by illiteracy, in particular 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;

Appeals to Governments to take full account of the use of languages in different contexts by promoting multilingual approaches to literacy, through which learners may acquire initial literacy in the language they know best and in additional languages as needed;

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 and collaborative action on policy formulation, implementation and evaluation of literacy efforts;

Appeals to all Governments to strengthen national and subnational professional institutions in their countries and to foster greater collaboration among all literacy partners with a view to developing greater capacity to design and deliver high-quality literacy programmes for youth and adults;

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;

Takes note of the three priority areas for the remaining years of the Decade identified through the mid-Decade review, namely, mobilizing stronger commitment to literacy, reinforcing more effective literacy programme delivery and harnessing new resources for literacy;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to reinforce its coordinating and catalysing role in the fight against illiteracy and to develop, in cooperation with other international partners, in particular the specialized agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, a strategic framework for renewed cooperation and action, on the basis of the mid-Decade review and the outcomes of the Regional Conferences in Support of Global Literacy, including the above-mentioned three priorities;

Invites Member States, the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as well as relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to support the implementation of the above priorities within the framework of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;2

Calls upon Member States, in the implementation of the International Plan of Action1 in the second half of the Decade, to give adequate attention to the cultural diversity of minorities and indigenous peoples;

Requests all relevant entities of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in cooperation with national Governments, to take immediate, concrete steps to address the needs of countries with high illiteracy rates and/or with large populations of illiterate adults, with particular regard to women, including through programmes that promote low-cost and effective literacy provisions;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to seek the views of Member States on the progress achieved in implementing their national programmes and plans of action for the Decade and to submit the next progress report on the implementation of the International Plan of Action to the General Assembly in 2010;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session, under the item entitled “Social development”, the sub-item entitled “United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all”.

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