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“Literacy for Development”

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|Date=24/06/2010
|City=Abuja
|Country=Nigeria
|Summary=“Literacy for Development” is the theme of the Eighth E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting to be held in Abuja, Nigeria, from 21 to 24 June 2010.
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<h1 id="w_objectives">Objectives </h1>
The meeting is being jointly organized by UNESCO and the Federal Government of Nigeria from June 21-24, 2010. The aim of the Abuja meeting is to contribute to halving adult illiteracy rates by 2015 (Education for All (EFA) Goal 4) with a special focus on girls and women in both the E-9 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan) and in other countries which E-9 countries can support through South-South cooperation. &nbsp;Making a measurable and positive impact on these population groups within the E-9 countries will also contribute to sustainable human development and poverty reduction. 
The objectives of the E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting are as follows: 

<ul><li>&nbsp; Facilitate the sharing of experiences and knowledge to better understand the relationship between literacy and development; 
</li><li>Identify issues, trends and challenges in providing literacy for out-of-school children, youth and adults, and ways of overcoming obstacles; 
</li><li>Explore strategies to improve and scale up effective literacy programmes; 
</li><li>Provide an arena for sharing time-lined national and collective commitments to scaling-up of literacy programmes for out-of-school children, youth and adults while improving literacy acquisition through non-formal education; 
</li><li>Encourage South-South cooperation in the field of literacy, as well as on EFA in general, among E-9 countries as well as between E-9 and other countries. 
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See the following for more information: 
<a href="http://www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/about-the-conference/" alt="www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/about-the-conference/">www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/about-the-conference/</a> 
<a href="http://www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/main-theme/" alt="www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/main-theme/">www.unesco.org/en/efa/international-cooperation/e-9-initiative/8th-meeting/main-theme/</a>

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