UIL and BREDA sign RAMAA partnership deal

On 4 November 2011, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA) signed a memorandum of understanding on the co-piloting of action research to measure the learning outcomes of literacy programme participants (RAMAA). The aim of this project, which was launched by the UIL, is to give countries a system that allows them to measure, monitor and evaluate basic literacy and post-literacy programmes for adults based on the development and testing of tools to measure learning. These tools will be designed with the aid of a single multi-country skill description.

This cooperation with UNESCO/BREDA is of particular importance due to the fact that the countries participating in the pilot phase – Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, Niger and Senegal – are in Africa, where there is a huge need for greater capacity to evaluate learning. The two UNESCO bodies will therefore pool their expertise to help these countries in their efforts to adopt measurement tools. RAMAA will make a significant contribution to fact-based advocacy for adult literacy programmes.