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Every three years, UIL organises a comprehensive report on the progress made by Member States in implementing the Belém Framework for Action (PDF), adopted at the CONFINTEA VI international conference on adult learning and education in 2009. The first issue of this Global Report of Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) was publishing during the CONFITEA VI conference, with the second to be drafted in 2012. The GRALE Editorial Board Meeting met from 1–2 October 2012 at UIL to discuss the six draft chapters of the next report and to gather feedback on how they might be improved.
By following up with Member Countries and making progress public, GRALE seeks to reinforce implementation of the Belém Framework. The structure of the report reflects the recommendations in the Framework, with chapters on
- Adult Literacy
- Policy
- Governance
- Financing
- Participation, inclusion and equity
- Quality
The Editorial Board is made up of seven external participants, representing both UNESCO Member States and civil society organisations, including Ms Cheryl Keenan (Director of Adult Education and Literacy, Department of Education, United States of America), Mr Alan Tuckett (President of the International Council for Adult Education), Ms Veronica McKay (Deputy Executive Dean of Education at the University of South Africa), and Ms Ella Yulaelawati (Director of Community Education Development in the Ministry of Education, Indonesia). Additionally, the UIL team was supported by two consultants, Mr César Guadalupe (Associated Researcher at the Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico) and Mr Kjell Rubenson (Professor at the University of British Colombia). As the monitoring of the Belém Framework for Action is a shared responsibility of UIL and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Mr Manual Cardoso was in attendance to represent UIS. Twenty-one programme colleagues from UIL also took part in the meeting, as most of them were involved in writing various chapters of the report.
After evaluating the draft chapters, the Board enumerated strategies for disseminating the forthcoming issue of GRALE and discussed potential themes for the third issue of GRALE in 2015.
