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As the Belém Framework for Action includes the recommendation to publish an updated version of GRALE every three years, the 2012 issue is currently under preparation. UNESCO Member States have been asked in autumn 2011 by way of a reporting template to produce national progress reports in order to provide the data for the second issue of GRALE. Since 2012 also marks the end of the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), it was recommended by the participants of the ”International Expert Meeting on Monitoring the Belém Framework” (taking place in Hamburg in 2011) to include a special focus on adult literacy in this edition of GRALE.
Therefore UIL has teamed up with the UNLD team at UNESCO Paris to collect information from Member States on the decade’s outcomes and impacts at the same time when monitoring of the implementation of the Belém Framework. In collaboration with the ED/BHL/LNF team and based on the input from participants of an expert meeting held in Paris in May 2011, questions on literacy and the decade were drafted.
During the first meeting of the GRALE Editorial Board held on 21 – 22 July 2011 at UIL, the reporting template for the national progress reports was finalised. Aside from questions pertaining to the five areas of the Belém Framework (policy, governance, participation, financing and quality) it also contains questions which aim to take stock of the outcomes of the UNLD.
Furthermore special thematic papers on various aspects of adult literacy have been commissioned to external researchers. In 2013, GRALE II will be printed and distributed.
