Literacy for Life : Shaping Future Agendas

A/RES/68/132View 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 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2014–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/151

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/151	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	2,412	89%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/192	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	2,235	63%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/155	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,456	90%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/145	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,410	82%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/166	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,247	54%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2018–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/155	Literacy for empowerment and transformation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/192
2022	A/77/187	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/155
2020	A/75/188	Literacy for life, work, lifelong learning and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/145
2018	A/73/292	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/166

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Education Literacy

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the final evaluation of the implementation of the International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade;⁶

⁶See A/68/201.

Commends the efforts made by Member States, their development partners, the international donor community, the private sector, civil society and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, including the lead organization for the Decade, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in making progress on the goals of the Decade;

Recognizes the importance of continuing to implement national programmes and measures to eliminate illiteracy worldwide, enhancing further political and financial commitments, in particular for youth and adult literacy and non-formal education, intensifying collective efforts through enhanced education systems and interventions, and building a robust knowledge and technical base through improved literacy monitoring, assessment and research;

Calls upon all Governments to develop reliable measures of literacy and generate data that are comparable across time and disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status and other relevant factors;

Encourages Member States, their development partners and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through additional technical and financial support and to promote literacy and literate environments through multi-pronged approaches, with a focus on marginalized groups or those in vulnerable situations, in particular girls and women, people living in rural areas and persons with disabilities, including by utilizing innovative information and communications technology solutions, bearing in mind that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to reinforce its coordinating and catalysing role in the fight against illiteracy, and encourages its Director-General to continue the process of elaborating a literacy vision and agenda for the period subsequent to the United Nations Literacy Decade, in consultation with Member States and development partners, in order to ensure a successful global multi-stakeholder partnership;

Recognizes the need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of literacy in the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;

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 sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Social development”, a sub-item entitled “Literacy for life: shaping future agendas”.

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