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Sanchez-Tapia, Ingrid; Rafique, Atif – UNICEF, 2020
There are nearly 200 million lower and upper secondary age adolescent girls and boys out of school globally, and if current trends continue, another 825 million children will not acquire basic secondary-level skills by 2030. Global momentum to achieve universal primary education has placed increased demands on secondary education systems to serve…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Hanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2012
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (2006-2015)--LIFE--to tackle the literacy challenge. This is a collaborative effort to accelerate literacy efforts in thirty five of the world's most challenged countries and thereby to unlock progress to reach all of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adult Literacy, Needs Assessment, Nonformal Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet reviews the current situation of women's education in different formal and nonformal educational settings, in different regions and contexts. Section 1 looks at the continuing gender gap in educational participation. It discusses the following reasons for the imbalance in South Asia: (1) little attention is paid to implementing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advocacy