Gambia: Forum Seeks to Boost Holistic Functional Literacy Programmes in the Gambia

18 September 2013

The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, in collaboration with UNESCO/BREDA through the Emergency Fund for Literacy, yesterday kick-started a two-day workshop for the development of an action plan for holistic functional literacy programmes in The Gambia.

According to education officials, the workshop was held to map out an agenda for expanding non-formal education to cater for adult, out-of-school youth and children in difficult circumstance, thus contributing to government's effort at achieving 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, and developing a roadmap for post-2015.

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