Literacy for Life : Shaping Future Agendas

A/RES/69/141View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 26d Literacy for life: shaping future agendas, published in 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2014–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/151

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/151	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	2,412	89%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/192	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	2,235	63%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/155	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,456	90%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/145	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,410	82%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/166	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas	1,247	54%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2018–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/155	Literacy for empowerment and transformation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/192
2022	A/77/187	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/155
2020	A/75/188	Literacy for life, work, lifelong learning and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/145
2018	A/73/292	Literacy for life : shaping future agendas and education for democracy report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/166

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Educational Policy Literacy Literacy Programmes

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization entitled “Literacy for life: shaping future agendas”;⁷

⁷A/69/183.

Commends the efforts made by Member States, their development partners, the international donor community, the private sector, civil society and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, including the lead organization of the United Nations Literacy Decade, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in promoting the right to education, including by making progress on the goals of the Decade;

Recognizes the importance of continuing to implement national programmes and measures for everyone to acquire, use and advance literacy skills in order to eliminate illiteracy worldwide, enhancing further political and financial commitments, in particular for youth and adult literacy and non-formal education, intensifying collective efforts through enhanced education systems and interventions and building a robust knowledge and technical base through improved literacy monitoring, assessment and research;

Calls upon all Governments to develop reliable measures of literacy and generate data that are comparable across time and disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status, geographical location (urban/rural areas) and other relevant factors;

Encourages Member States, their development partners and the specialized agencies and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system, as appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through improving the integration of literacy into sector-wide and multisectoral education and development strategies, expanding the provision of quality literacy programmes, enhancing education systems to provide quality basic education through schooling, enriching literate environments to allow people to acquire, use and advance literacy skills and promoting literacy for women and girls, as well as for marginalized groups, for their empowerment and inclusion in societies;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its coordinating and catalysing role in the fight against illiteracy, including in the context of the agenda for the period following the United Nations Literacy Decade, through developing Member States’ capacities in the areas of policies, programme delivery and literacy assessments, scaling up literacy actions for girls and women, reinforcing innovative models of literacy delivery, including through information and communications technologies, and expanding the knowledge base and monitoring and evaluation, as well as advocating literacy on the global agenda and ensuring synergies between different actions, including through multi-stakeholder partnerships and networks;

Encourages efforts to provide education for all, especially for boys and girls, in humanitarian emergencies, including in order to contribute to a smooth transition from relief to development;

Recognizes the continued need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of literacy in the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session, under the item entitled “Social development”, the sub-item entitled “Literacy for life: shaping future agendas”.

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