Publications

• 18.05.12:

  COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRES: ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT

  

  The Community Learning Centre (CLC) Project was launched in 1998 within the framework of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL).

• 30.04.12:

  Just Released: Gender Wire April 2012 issue

  

  How young are children when they start learning what it means to be a boy or girl? Read about how gender effects early childhood care and education in April's Gender Wire. 

• 30.04.12:

  Asia-Pacific Regional Guide to Equivalency Programmes

  

  To meet the goal of Education for All (EFA), it is necessary to provide education not only through formal education programmes, but also through non-formal education programmes to children, youth and adults who have not completed their basic education. Recognising this, a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific have established Non-Formal Education (NFE) systems that are linked to formal education through the use of Equivalency Programmes (EPs). Learners are given the flexibility to move...

• 03.01.12:

  Literacy initiative for empowerment (LIFE) 2010 - Regional mid-term evaluation: Summary Report

  

  According to the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, in 2008 there were about 796 million illiterate adults worldwide, more than half of them living in South and West Asia, two thirds being girls and women, and another 67 million school-age children that were out-of-school, of which over 26 million residing in Asia and the Pacific.

  The United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012 has been a major effort to attain literacy for all. The UNESCO Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) programme,...

• 20.12.11:

  Creating and sustaining literate environments

  

  Worldwide, one in five adults are not literate, and millions of children leave school without acquiring the basic literacy and numeracy skills. This situation leads millions of children and youth to an uncertain future with few dreams, little hope, and limited aspirations in life.

  UNESCO Bangkok has developed a resource pack on Creating and Sustaining Literate Environments as a way of addressing the high illiteracy rate that continues to plague the world especially in developing...

• 14.12.11:

  Sustainability of community learning centres: Community ownership and support - Asia-Pacific Regional Action Research Studies

  

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• 21.11.11:

  Achieving EFA Through Equivalency Programmes in Asia-Pacic: A regional overview with highlights from India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines

  

  This publication, produced by the Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) at UNESCO’s Regional Office in Bangkok, provides a synthesis of Equivalency Programmes (EPs) in education in the Asia- Pacific region.

  The publication draws on information from a range of sources, including research reports, regional workshop materials and individual experiences from Non-Formal Education (NFE) personnel. This collection of information comes from eleven countries in the Asia-Pacific region,...

• 04.10.11:

  LIFE Afghanistan - Literacy Initiative for Empowerment Newsletter, September 2011

  
• 05.09.11:

  UNESCO’s new 3-year country programme supports Nepal’s peace and development process

  

  UNESCO Country Programming Document for Nepal 2011-2013

• 09.09.09:

  Progress and Challenges in Literacy & Adult Education in Asia and the Pacific 2003-1008

  

  ISBN: 978-92-9223-2870