LOGICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF ICAE

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As long as civil society monitors the accomplishment of the agreements signed by the governments at the different UN Conferences, the probabilities for accomplishment will increase.

In a globalized world, civil society must prepare itself for a global, local and pluridimensional citizenship.

The global and national networks are a privileged tool for the promotion of this citizen proposal

The existence of a consolidated group of experts allows for a greater capacity of influence and advocacy

To follow up the implementation commitments made in CONFINTEA on the right to learn of men and women  and of EFA goals by undertaking by  the “World Shadow Report” initiative

To disseminate the results at national and global level in order to promote the preparatory process towards CONFINTEA+6

To consolidate a specialized  international working group for the development of the Citizen Watch on the Right to Education

To form an international working group on Education for Sustainable Development

To develop skills that enable the ICAE network to follow the global scenarios on special issues which may have impacts on the right to learn of adults.

To elaborate a Global Report in English, Spanish and French

To disseminate the results of the 18 National Reports in the countries where the studies were conducted

To launch the publication at Confintea+6

To invite the researchers and participants of the Shadow Report team, the Global Advocacy Guide Team, Gender and Educacion Office team, and other experts to be active members of the Citizen Watch on the Right to Education

To invite NGOs and leaders from the different regions to be active members of the follow up on Education and Sustainable Development

To study and develop an advocacy proposal on the issue of privatization of services that will be addressed within the framework of  WTO

Publication of the Shadow Report in 3 languages: English, Spanish and French.

18 national preparatory meetings

An active and consolidated team for conducting the Citizen Watch on the Right to Education

A more efficient advocacy

Specific  documents and reports for advocacy

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Gender discrimination affects half the world population. In order to change and prevent this situation, a new education is necessary that promotes gender justice

Learning for human solidarity  entails the integration of an educational perspective that considers the diverse identities we embody.

Contribute to a gender mainstreaming of ICAE´s structure, programs and ongoing projects

To promote the formation of new leaders for GEO, particularly in Africa and Asia

To strengthen GEO positioning at global level and gender analysis in all spaces

Highlight education with gender justice as a strategic tool for the empowerment of women.

To implement a comprehensive and systematic approach of interlinkages and intersectionality on all forms of discrimination such as gender, race, poverty, migrants, ethnicity

To incorporate gender dimension to all ICAE's projects.

Dissemination and exchange of information materials through the electronic magazine Voices Rising and ICAE's website to all ICAE members.

To establish two  regional teams to be part of ICAE's Citizen Watch on the Right to Education

To support the organization and coordination of the meetings foreseen by the UIE on  gender “promoting empowerment for women” prior to Confintea + 6

Participation of a GEO team in CONFINTEA +6, to carry out follow up actions on gender and education without discrimination in all the chapters of CONFINTEA+6

To carry out a campaign for education without discrimination with gender perspective in CONFINTEA+6

To promote follow up and advocacy actions in gender and education in CONFINTEA, EFA, and related conferences, while incorporating the Millennium goals

To develop a gender advocacy proposal and an active role at the UN literacy decade 2003-2013

Participation of GEO in the spaces of the World Social forum, while incorporating justice in gender relations in the global agenda, and demanding gender balance in its different spheres of coordination.

Participation of GEO in the World Education Forum, incorporating gender analysis in its inputs.

To organize a Seminar on new proposals for an education without discrimination, prior to CONFINTEA+6

To request experts to elaborate working documents which would help us to project ourselves, while tracking, in order to anticipate them, those characteristics and conditions that are changing the requirements for education and significant learning for our future.

Publications of GEO, featuring the advances achieved in the conducted studies

Projects and actions with gender perspective

Weekly issues of the electronic bulletin Voices Rising

New regional leaders

Conceptual and methodological proposal for the CONFINTEA + 6 meeting.

Advocacy on gender and education in all chapters

Design and implementation of the GEO campaign.

A holistic approach on gender and education

Proposal on literacy for a non discriminatory  learning with gender justice relations

Presence and participation of GEO in the World Social Forum instances.

Presence and participation of GEO in the panels.

Working documents elaborated by experts

Publications in English and Spanish and its distribution

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There is no possible or sustainable implementation of the universal declaration of the Human Rights without the implementation of the basic right to literacy.

To increase ICAE researching and documenting capacities   on innovative adult literacy work

To create strong links between  EFA follow up and create strong links with

CONFINTEA's adult education and lifelong learning processes

To establish an international team with expertise on adult literacy leaded by ASPBAE

To unite on and advance a common definition of literacy which addresses not only basic skills acquisition but also its links with sustainable development, life skills and learners' citizenship role

To promote exchanging instances among organizations with innovative literacy proposals from the different regions.

To develop an advocacy proposal on adult literacy with  an intergenerational perspective

To give visibility to the innovations and good practices in adult literacy work around the world

Active representation of ICAE´s network in UN instances on literacy

A committed International team of ICAE

Conceptual document

Construction of a collective knowledge

Innovative advocacy proposal on adult literacy

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One of a global network's functions is connecting people's needs at local level with the global level, and carry out advocacy actions in order that global decisions be accomplished at local level.

In order to influence on the global decisions from a democratic perspective, global networks must count on formed persons at all levels and have tools for a good advocacy work.

To develop capacity building within ICAE’s membership towards a more efficient  advocacy work at all levels

To develop, create and disseminate different advocacy tools, at national and global levels.

To give visibility, sensitize and raise public awareness on the violation to the Right to Education

To promote the realization of campaigns for the right to learn throughout life, such as the Adult Learning Week and the ICAE Campaign launched in Porto Alegre

To exchange our knowledge in relation to advocacy and lobby at different levels, among the ICAE experts and other networks.

To organize training instances for ICAE members, particularly for the global advocacy team.

Dissemination and training of the developed advocacy tools.

Organization of Public Tribunals aimed at exploring how violations to the right to education in different countries can lead to juridical action

To promote the ALW in the different regions.

To keep the momentum of the ICAE Campaign in all possible global instances.

Specialized global team

Dissemination and training on the use of the global advocacy guide.

Organization of Public Tribunals as a new lobby tool.

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A powerful network must be dense in its internal structures, with motivated and participative members; it must also be efficient externally, generating impact at national and global levels.

To promote the formation of a group that enables the densification of the network through the identification of new action guidelines in order to diversify and give a new meaning and content to our practices.

To increase the capacity for discovering those areas in which it is important to be involved, in addition to the traditional ones (black holes)

To organize an International Summer Institute

To uncover the world of informal learning for a better understanding of the way in which the intersectionality of  multiple discriminations manifest itself.

Establish a motivated, open-minded and creative group

Hold working meetings with triggering documents

Implementation of the developed project

To elaborate "educational biographies in diversity"  in a testimonial manner showing the  learning and unlearning processes, and which enable the understanding of the multiple discriminations through the incorporation of life dimension.

To organize meetings chaired by experts, aimed at sharing  methodology that  builds and deconstructs learnings related to multiple discriminations to elaborate a multidimensional proposal on education

An international working group committed to the task

Small meetings

Working documents

A deeper awareness of multiple discrimination to reproduce life stories

Educational biographies

Exemplary case studies on migrant, indigenous, black women, on women in armed conflicts

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Linkage with other actors promoting active citizenship participation in different areas of activities empowers the Adult education movement.

To invite diverse actors (new and old social movements, trade unions, multilateral agencies, University research groups, local governments, national and global networks) in order to learn from others, put ideas in common, and coordinate efforts to deepen our knowledge about educational related matters in a world marked by “a sense of uncertainties”

To look for partnerships with other groups and organizations already working on the construction of new learning alternatives

Contact different actors with whom we share aims and missions and seize moments for joining initiatives

Contribute to the organization of a University of Social Movements ( proposed by Boaventura De Souza Santos at WSF 2003)

Develop joint reflection instances with different groups (for example the French group "Interactions") on the learning environment of new active citizenship

Coordination instances

Interlearning between networks

New working alliances

Dissemination of proposals for new learning culture oriented on citizenship

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The stronger the regional leadership is, the stronger the global network will be.

Learning from new regional experiences can result into having people´s minds receptive to new ideas and arguments

To promote the growth of ICAE  leadership  capacity politically and strategically in order to guarantee and strengthen ICAE  advocacy roll

To open up reflection spaces, and carry out in -depth studies to enlarge our understanding of the current role of the networks in every day more - globalized world through the sharing of learning experiences of other networks.

To support regional consolidation processes through specific actions according to their needs

Training for new leaders capable of acting on behalf of ICAE at international level

Organization of an Annual Seminar for 25 people. First year topic: The role of the networks in the new millennium.  Special guests: experts in the field and representatives from other regional and global networks

Hold an annual interregional Seminar on networking and strategic planning, aimed at  south- south exchange among Arab region, Africa the first year

Emergence of new leaderships

New knowledge about the different kinds of networks and their role in the global context

Strategic Regional Plans with “advance indicators”

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A global network has to be at the center of civil society global spaces with a strong political influence capacity.

To strengthen the visibility and position of ICAE in Global Forums so as to stress the relevance of including alternative adult education in the construction of a new global social agenda

To promote the engagement of ICAE and it organizations members in WSF processes showing the flag “Another Possible Education for Another Possible World”

Participation of ICAE representatives in the International Committee meetings of the WSF

Participation of ICAE’s representatives in the continental WSF through regional bodies

Participation of an ICAE team in the WSF.

Participation of an ICAE team in the World Education Forums with innovative proposals that aim at analyzing the complexities and broaden up the analysis of the reality in which educators work

Disseminate and socialize through ICAE’s and GEO’s communication tools the information generated in the framework of the WSF, both virtually and in print.

Major visibility of ICAE  on the WSF  and promotion of  the learning  dimension of the WSF starting from the inside of such space

Innovative proposals for the WEF

ICAE members informed and motivated on World Social Process

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The Workspace has suffered accelerated and deep changes and therefore there is a need to   reflect on the nature of the learning opportunities emerging now from this new and modified workspaces

To promote the analysis of transformative capacities of workspaces and processes as learning sites for the full development of people, their organizations, and communities

To study how transformation in workspaces generate a differential impact on workers’ conditions and their families on the basis of gender and age

To uncover the dimension of informal learning opportunities taking place at work in a determined “learning environment” and making it more transparent

Leading researches on existing interconnections between the work  spaces where   transformations of the working conditions take place, and the private spaces where their impacts manifest themselves into behaviors and family relationships

Identify an interregional group with  expertise in the field and capable to carry out an action research

Develop case studies on how learning occurs and how it is managed by workers

Promote the organization of Seminars to raise sensibility of different actors on this issue

Design and implementation of a study on learning opportunities at workspaces and their impacts.

Case studies

Seminar

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The education for the full exercise of human rights is an instrument to overcome discrimination and exclusion

Education for Peace contributes to deconstruct individual, competitive, patriarchal and violent bases of societies

To help redefine education for sustainable peace and social justice in military conflicts and non declared conflict context

To develop a proposal on inclusive education which enables the engagement of educators from different regions of the ICAE

Call on more motivated persons with experience for an exchange at global level.

Meetings and seminars

Systematization of the existing successful practices

A collective Working Plan

A new proposal

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A new education for a new world demands a new look and perspective from the part of the educators.

To seek to make training a fundamental issue on the agenda of ICAE regional adult education organizations, to revisit the perspective and to advocate this at global level

Promote international cooperation among ICAE’s members, and organizations involved in training of adult educators

Support initiatives that promote training of the educators of adult people and advocate for an on -going training for adult  educators

To develop advocacy actions for the integration of the theme “Training of Educators” in the CONFINTEA V Mid Term Review Process, and immediate Follow up

Develop and maintain a web site, as part of ICAE web-site, and share documentation, experiences and information

To organize an online discussion forum departing from concrete proposals and different points of view, to motivate and stimulate the debate and development of this issue

Participation of ICAE representatives of this team in the CONFINTEA +6 for advocacy purposes

Virtual Seminar

Advocacy actions

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The development of the network and its membership will be favoured by the utilization of the different  virtual information and communications tools.

To support the systematization and documentation of adult learning theory and practice through publications

To promote the generation of an active and participatory membership through virtual mechanisms

To continue the development and consolidation of ICAE’s Website and virtual communications and strengthen cooperation linkages with other documentation and information networks

Exchange and disseminate information on specific actions carried out by ICAE in different issues, including the experiences in different spaces at global level by ICAE and also by its member associations and thematic networks

Keep the publication of Convergence promoting a larger inclusion of regional contributions

Publish the ICAE annual report, ICAE News, brochures, pamphlets and other materials

Create a homepage for members on ICAE website

Implementation of periodical virtual reports to the membership on the most important news

Regular translation of  ICAE web pages into Spanish and French

Regular uploading of the key public documents, news, events, profiles and all relevant information for ICAE members

Establish links with other web pages of other organizations working on adult education and with ICAE Members web pages

A motivated, participative and informed membership

Publication of Convergence and a bulletin

Exchange of information among members

A useful website for all members from all regions