In India, the definition of literacy, operating definition of literacy, is the ability, the grand ability, to write your own name in whatever language you happen to speak.

A law to foster education for rural children prohibited discrimination against girls for reasons of race, language and origin and had given girls the same access to literacy programmes as boys.

(1) Literacy Program

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Table 10 Literacy statistics

Literacy is a crucial concern.

DAFA Directorate of Girls' Literacy

Adult Literacy Schools exist in rural and urban areas for women as well as men to promote functional literacy.

Mr. Sossa (Benin) said that while the sole language of instruction in Benin's schools, colleges and universities was French, literacy campaigns were of course conducted in the appropriate local languages, and involved substantial participation by civil society.

Tertiary and Further Education (TAFE) New South Wales provides two women only courses to address the needs of women facing a range of barriers, such as disability, age, cultural difference, language, literacy, numeracy, unemployment, imprisonment or isolation.

Furthermore, we participated in two rounds of the International Literacy Survey, from which direct measures of literacy can be derived.

(c) To address female literacy, some 746 women's centres were set up in 1999 to promote traditional and functional literacy.

Technical training in management, functional literacy.

8.5 Adult and functional literacy programmes

While some people living in the south east both Kurds and Turks did have literacy problems, the Government had taken steps to promote the spoken language, including programmes to teach Kurdish and possibly other languages in the future.

The literacy rate is 95 per cent.

Schooling and functional literacy training for girls.

Literacy programmes for women were also introduced.

h) Draw up and strengthen legal literacy programmes

Table 11 Achievements in the area of literacy

They include (i) the development of guidelines for teachers on how the curriculum can be adapted to reflect the emergence of a multicultural society and (ii) funding for a support programme for teachers to enable them to develop immigrant children's English language skills and for materials and staff development for adult tutors meeting the literacy and language needs of adults.

Despite the massive potential for ICTs to enable higher productivity and greater business participation, numerous obstacles remain in business adoption of ICTs, including low income levels, low literacy rates, lack of native language content and widespread lack of Internet awareness in business.

The Three year Women's Literacy Programme, which seeks to teach 300,000 women to read and write by 2005, working through more than 1000 young literacy volunteers.

UNICEF will help the Government in developing literacy strategy for young people and support projects in five districts to pilot new functional literacy methods and materials.

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I haven't told you about the definition of literacy.

Literacy programmes for rural areas had specifically targeted women.

The country's female literacy rate was 97 per cent.

The low level of literacy has an aggravating effect.

Legal (il)literacy of women is also an important barrier.

(4) Program of Literacy Yo si puedo Yes I can

Occupational literacy centres increased in number between 2000 and 2002.

These literacy programmes have a focus on women and girls.

This special project has likewise produced a series of post literacy booklets entitled Literacy, Gender and HIV AIDS based on needs assessment with the same themes as those mentioned above.

Language is very different. Language is very precise.

The Government and the United Nations country team have established a joint programme on women's integrated functional literacy, under which measurable progress in the literacy rate of women is expected by 2008.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

Special communiqué in support of literacy projects to achieve universal primary education

Special communiqué in support of literacy projects to achieve universal primary education

(Data from literacy trends and statistics in Pakistan, UNESCO office Islamabad, 2002).

In some countries, primary education enrolment and adult literacy had increased markedly.

One learns grammar from language, not language from grammar.