UNESCO now has two frameworks to guide the development of adult learning and education (ALE) in its Member States: the Belém Framework for Action (BFA), which was the outcome document of the Sixth International Conference on Adult Learning and Education (CONFINTEA VI) in 2009, and the Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (RALE), which was adopted in 2015 along with the Recommendation concerning
The 2015 UNESCO General Conference adopted a new Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (2015) to replace the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education. At the last two International Conferences on Adult Education,...
Members of the Network on Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Development ‒ one of the networks making up the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) ‒ reviewed the process of revising the 1976 UNESCO Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education when it...
The revision of the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education requested by the Belém Framework for Action has reached its final phase. In accordance with UNESCO’s rules and...
As mandated by the Belém Framework for Action and approved in 2013 by UNESCO’s General Conference, UNESCO will revise the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education ....
At its 19th session in 1976, the UNESCO general conference adopted a Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education, based on an impetus from the third International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA III). This Recommendation continues to form UNESCO’s most important set of...
To support the follow-up and monitoring at the International level of the Belém Framework for Action, UNESCO and its structures were requested by the 6 th International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) “to review and update, by 2012, the Recommendation on the Development of Adult...
The Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education , adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in Nairobi in 1976, is the key normative instrument on adult education, providing guiding principles and a global approach for promoting and developing adult education in Member States. Its...
The Committee on Conventions and Recommendations of the Executive Board of UNESCO monitors three Conventions and eleven Recommendations. One of latter is the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education. The UNESCO General Conference 36C/Resolution 13 (2011) acknowledges the...
Following a recommendation of UNESCO’s Third International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA III, Tokyo, 1972) UNESCO’s General Conference adopted, at its 19th session held in Nairobi in 1976, the...
