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Literacy for Life : Shaping Future Agendas

A/RES/69/141No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 26dLiteracy 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
  • 2024A/RES/79/151Literacy for life : shaping future agendasLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/192Literacy for life : shaping future agendasCompare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/75/155Literacy for life : shaping future agendasCompare with previous version
  • 2019A/RES/73/145Literacy for life : shaping future agendasCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/RES/71/166Literacy for life : shaping future agendasCompare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Educational PolicyLiteracyLiteracy Programmes

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs
1
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”;
2
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;
3
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;
4
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;
5
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;
6
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;
7
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;
8
Recognizes the continued need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of literacy in the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;
9
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;
10
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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