Technical training in management, functional literacy.

Schooling and functional literacy training for girls.

Projects often provide direct support to literacy training, cooperative management, skills and training.

The WTC group in Kabul has been training women to teach literacy and basic business skills.

WFP also implemented 59 non formal education and literacy training courses in 2005, reaching 18,199 trainees.

These programmes involve the provision of credit, the supply of inputs, technical training, functional literacy, training in gender issues, self promotion, management and nutrition, and the provision of appropriate equipment and technology.

Aimed in particular at women and girls, they dealt, among other things, with water supply, literacy instruction, training in income generating activities and microcredit.

They also mentioned a pressing need to provide technical assistance in the judicial and penal system (administrative training of law clerks and paralegal training, capacity building of the bar association, vocational and literacy training for prisoners, and uniforms for both guards and prisoners).

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

The training materials along with the methodology on how to utilise these materials have been provided to provincial governments for incorporation in their literacy programmes.

To date, UNAMSIL police have provided training to some 4,000 police personnel, covering such areas as basic police training, training of trainers, computer literacy, human rights, airport security, driving, election monitoring, family support, criminal intelligence, policing diamond mining and cross border activities, as well as middle and senior management training courses.

Aimed in particular at women and girls, they dealt, among other things, with water supply, literacy instruction, training in income generating activities, micro credit, and so on.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provided technical assistance in specific areas including the Education for All initiative, technical and vocational education and training, early childhood education, teacher training, adult literacy, inclusive education and higher education.

(1) Literacy Program

Literacy Tech Foundation

In June 2004, the Director General of UNESCO and the Afghan Minister of Education signed an aide memoire with a focus on capacity building in the areas of teacher training, curriculum reform, technical and vocational education and training and literacy.

With literacy and proper skills training, a young person can go on to obtain a secure job that will contribute to the economic advancement of his or her community.

Table 10 Literacy statistics

The same applied to student enrolment in high schools and universities Special programmes in such areas as literacy and on the job training had also been established to benefit women.

(b) Promoting and protecting women's equal rights to property and inheritance through legislation, promotion of legal literacy and legal assistance to rural women, awareness raising campaigns and training of government officials

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.

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.

Urges Member States to take the necessary measures required to cooperate among themselves and with OIC Institutions in achieving the proposed quantitative objectives in the fields of intra trade, Heath, Literacy and Training.

8.5 Adult and functional literacy programmes

Some of the examples of these policies implemented in Brazil quotas in the political arena reservation of vacancies in training programs and women as a priority in employment, living, and literacy programs for adults.

The literacy rate is 95 per cent.

Literacy programmes for women were also introduced.

Expresses its appreciation of the efforts made by the Task Forces on Training, Health and Literacy and urges the Member States and relevant bodies to combine their efforts with those of the Task Forces concerned.

There are four forms of non regular education for adults, including illiteracy elimination and post literacy education customized education periodic refresher courses, training courses to update and improve knowledge and skills programmes to obtain certificates of the national education system, such as in service training, distance learning and guided self learning.

1999 2002 89 ACWW supported micro projects worldwide in leadership training, literacy, water use and conservation, nutrition health, food livestock, income generation, grants for labour saving equipment and technology, HIV AIDS awareness, credit schemes, FGM awareness.

The policy included the identification of the displaced persons awarding of citizenship and passports legal mechanisms for providing electoral rights modalities for relief packages literacy, health and awareness raising campaigns vocational training and compensation to victims.

Commends the IDB and other cooperating institutions for the work done during the meeting of Experts in Health, Literacy, Training and Trade, and the programme of action suggested by the Experts to implement the Summit resolution.

h) Draw up and strengthen legal literacy programmes

Table 11 Achievements in the area of literacy

The rapid growth of information technologies in Tajikistan has engendered the need to improve computer literacy. Groups for training qualified information technology specialists are being organized everywhere, but that is becoming more of a prerogative for boys.

Although much remained to be done to improve the situation of rural women, the Government and its partners had been working to improve functional literacy, enterprise development, skills training and microfinance, with the aim of alleviating poverty.

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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