CONFINTEA VI Follow-up activities

The CONFINTEA VI Final Report (currently available in English and French) and a trilingual version of the Belém Framework for Action have been produced and widely disseminated to CONFINTEA VI participants, UNESCO National Commissions, field offices and many other stakeholders. Following the first meeting of the CONFINTEA Advisory Group, UIL developed two strategy documents to drive forward the implementation of the CONFINTEA agenda: an overall CONFINTEA Follow-up Strategy – which will be published after the ongoing consultation process – and a concerted CONFINTEA Communication Strategy.

UIL is grateful for the numerous reports received from governments on follow-up activities to CONFINTEA VI. Several ministries are in the process of translating related documents into national languages. The Ministry of Education in Thailand has published a Thai translation of the Belém Framework for Action, while the Czech Ministry has published a Czech version of the Executive Summary of the Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE). Both documents are available for download on the CONFINTEA website.

National seminars to discuss and plan follow-up activities in the countries have been organised in Japan, Switzerland and Uzbekistan. The Second Forum on Literacy and Adult Education for the Maghreb Region was held in May in Nouakchott, Mauritania and centred on the CONFINTEA VI follow-up in the region. Participants adopted the Nouakchott Declaration, containing a series of recommendations addressed to institutions from governments, civil society and international organisations working in the field of adult education. The forum will continue to meet in future and act as a standing body to monitor the CONFINTEA VI follow-up in the region.

The theme of the 2010 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education – Digital Literacy: Preparing Adult Learners for Lifelong Learning and Flexible Employment – was inspired by CONFINTEA VI and GRALE. This is the first time that the theme of the prize has focused on adult education. The prize, which is funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain, has been awarded every year since 2005.

UIL strongly encourages governments and other stakeholders to send information on CONFINTEA follow-up activities and developments in their countries and/or regions so that this can be featured on the CONFINTEA website.

For more information on the CONFINTEA follow-up activities and the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize or to download the CONFINTEA VI Final Report and the Belém Framework for Action, please visit the following site:http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001877/187790e.pdf