United Nations Literacy Decade : Education for All

A/RES/65/183View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 27d United Nations Literacy Decade : education for all, published in 2011.

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5 versions · 2003–2011

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	–

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11 subjects

Adult Education Education Educational Costs Educational Financing Educational Policy Literacy Literacy Programmes Programme Implementation Project Evaluation Project Monitoring Research and Development

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19 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation 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,⁵ including the strategic priorities outlined therein for the next phase of the Decade and beyond;

⁵See A/65/172.

Takes note of the 2008 publication The Global Literacy Challenge: A profile of youth and adult literacy at the mid-point of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003–2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized, the first Global Report on Adult Learning and Education, prepared for the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education, held in Belém, Brazil, from 1 to 4 December 2009, the 2009 review of the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment, the synthesis report of the Eighth E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting on Education for All, held in Abuja from 21 to 24 June 2010, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization programme reports;

Also takes note of the outcome documents of the five regional preparatory conferences, held in 2008 and 2009 in preparation for the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Adult Education, as well as 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, which indicate that in the second half of the Decade appropriate networks should be developed for greater regional collaboration;

Recognizes that a renewed collective commitment and stronger international partnerships in support of literacy efforts at the national level will be needed if the objectives of the Decade are to be met;

Calls upon Member States, their development partners, the international donor community, the private sector and civil society, in accordance with national law, to further scale up quality literacy efforts and consider the post-2012 strategy for addressing youth and adult literacy challenges, bearing in mind that just over two years remain of the Decade and that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;

Recognizes the importance of continuing to implement national programmes and measures to eliminate illiteracy worldwide as part of the commitments made in the Dakar Framework for Action on Education for All, adopted on 28 April 2000 at the World Education Forum,⁶ and in the Millennium Development Goals, and in this regard also recognizes the important contribution of South-South and triangular cooperation through, inter alia, innovative pedagogical methods in literacy;

⁶See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).

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 poor and those living in the most vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, 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;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to reinforce its coordinating and catalysing role in the fight against illiteracy;

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;Error: Reference source not found

Calls upon Member States, in the implementation of the International Plan of ActionError: Reference source not found in the final phase 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 and persons with disabilities, including through programmes that promote low-cost and effective literacy provisions;

Notes the contribution made by the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education to the implementation of the Decade, and welcomes the Belém Framework for Action adopted at the Conference;

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, undertake a final evaluation of the implementation of the Decade by Member States and other stakeholders and submit to the General Assembly in 2013 a final report on the implementation of the International Plan of Action with specific recommendations for the post-Decade period;

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

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