 1994
Establishment, under the aegis of UNESCO, of the International Literacy Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
1995
Collective Consultation of NGOs proposes to create, in collaboration with UNESCO, a nongovernmental World Literacy Observatory, Tokyo
1996
- Mid-Decade meeting
of the International Consultative Forum of Education for All, Amman
- Conference on Literacy, International Literacy Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
2001-2010
International Basic Education Decade (planned)
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LITERACY PRIZES
FROM 1967 TO 1996
Since 1967 literacy prizes and distinctions are awarded by an international jury
nominated by UNESCO to honour institutions, organizations or individuals having
made a particularly commendable and successful contribution to the fight against
illiteracy.
The following three prizes are awarded on 8 September every year in celebration
of International Literacy Day:
- The International Reading Association Literacy Award, since 1979
- established by the International Reading Association, an NGO whose Headquarters is in the United States of America,
- $15,000 annually.
- The Noma Prize, since 1980
- named after the late Mr Shoichi Noma, Japanese publisher and former President of Kodansha Limited, Tokyo,
- $15,000 annually.
- The King Sejong Literacy Prize, since 1989
- established by the Republic of Korea, in honour of King Sejong who, in 1443, invented a simplified phonetic alphabet which facilitated the spread of knowledge,
- $30,000 annually.
The following three prizes are no longer awarded:
- The Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Prize for Literacy, 1967-1978
- created by the Government of Iran,
- named after the Royal Host of the World
Conference of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy, Tehran, Iran, 1965.
- The Nadeshda K. Krupskaya Prize for Literacy, 1969-1991
- created by the Government of the USSR,
- named after Lenin’s companion, symbol of her country’s fight against illiteracy during the mass literacy campaign launched after the October Revolution.
- The Iraq Literacy Prize, 1980-1991
- founded in 1980 by the Government of Iraq.
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James P. Grant
(United States)
Executive Director of UNICEF from 1980 to 1995
The progress towards EFA goals must be accelerated with both national and
international resources if we are not to fall farther behind in the struggle to narrow the rich-poor chasm in the global society.
Education for All Summit of Nine High-population Countries, New Delhi, December 1993
Colin N. Power
(Australia)
Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO, since 1989
Basic education is defined to mean primary school for children and literacy classes for adults. It is far from certain that either primary schools or literacy programmes, as we now know them, are capable of meeting basic learning needs. It would be more accurate to think of the school and the literacy class not as providers of basic education, but merely as important contributors to it.
Speech to the Ninth Monographic Seminar, Foundation Santillana, Madrid, November 1994
Kofi Annan
(Ghana)
Secretary-General of the United Nations, since 1997
I am not complacent about the problems we face. The goals of ‘Education for All’ and ‘Education for Peace’ are still far from being attained. But to define a goal is to take the first step towards achieving it.
Address to the American Council of Education, February 1997
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