PROGRAMME I: THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE NEW GLOBAL SOCIAL AGENDA
General objective: Draw the attention and promote action of decision-makers and the public opinion on the right to learn of women and men, at national and global levels, through a policy of advocacy, while highlighting the key role of alternative adult education and lifelong learning in the new global social agenda
Strategy 1: Poverty eradication and adult education: agreements with civil society organizations, networks and cooperation
Specific Objectives	Activities	Expected Results	2006	2007	2008
Create an international space for the exchange and analysis of new trends and experiences of Young and Adult Education within the framework of a strategy of poverty eradication.	Organization of International Seminars. The first one  to be held in  Uruguay, June  2006, in coordination with the Education Bureau of the Ministry of  Education and Culture of Uruguay and with the participation of experts from different regions to discuss and exchange new visions and concrete experiences on Young and Adult Education	Identification of learning strategies according to the new learning needs emerging from the present global context.	X	X	X
	Preparation of work documents for the Seminar, done by experts, from the differnt perspectives in terms of: concepts, practices and regions.	Publication of seminar proposals.	X	X	X
Promote reflection on  the relationship between state and civil society in the design and implementation of educational policies for a full citizenship through the development of  pilot projects in south regions, linking education  for   inclusion and social development	Support the development of knowledge centers for technological literacy, and capacity -building and training of community leaders, in unfavorable socio-economic contexts,  in Latin America, Asia and Africa	Identification of existing centers and promotion of new ones.                                                                      Exchanging specific innovative experiences among ICAE's members and networks	X	X	X
	Systematization and debate of  innovative experiences that highlight the link between  the role of education for inclusion and poverty eradication strategies.   The purpose is to improve advocacy actions at all levels	Virtual Seminar. New inputs  for social and inclusion-oriented actions.     Linking the leearning divide to the economic and social dimension of poverty	X	X	X
	Dissemination of reflections, proposals and conclusions	Compilation of successful experiences at community level that may be easily replicated.		X
Strategy 2:  Strengthening of global civil society actors
Specific Objectives	Activities	Expected Results	2006	2007	2008
	World Social Forum
Promote the engagement of ICAE and its national members and regional bodies in WSF processes with the motto “Another possible education for another possible world"	Participation in the International Council and in the Content and Methodology Commission of  the World Social Forum	Consolidation and innovation of the methodology of World Social Forum.	X	X	X
Strengthen the visibility and position of ICAE in Global Forums, while highlighting alternative adult education in the construction of a new global social agenda	Continue leading the creation of aggregate groups in the WSF per thematic axis, integrating regional perspectives and different issues in order to facilitate common follow-up strategies and actions: Polycentric Forums 2006 and World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya, as well as the one to be held in 2008.	Promote or contibute to the emergence of alliances among civil society organizations and the world education mvement.	X	X	X
	Constitution of the WSF African  Facilitating Group 2007	Involvement of ICAE and education networks in the preparatory process towards WSF in Africa 2007	X	X
	Organization and coordination of  seminars and workshops in regional forums and in World Social Forum, each year. The following issues will be addressed in 2006 Polycentric Forums: “Education and Citizenship: for the Right to Quality Public Services for All"  - "Education and Privatizations”  - "Gender perspectives on MDGs:  HIV/AIDS, literacy and women's empowerment".	Reinforce the right to learn as a crucial point in the global social agenda	X	X	X
	Organization and coordination of the campaign on “Education for Inclusion Throughout Life for Active Citizenship” during the Forums	Give visibility to adult education through campaign activities	X	X	X
	World Education Forum (WEF)
	Co-organize activities in the World Education Forum with education networks and the Popular University of the Social Movements (PUSM) and/or Networks of Knowledge within the framework of the World Social Forums.	Share proposals and experience with World Education Movement.   Expansion an diversification of PUSM	X	X	X
	Popular University of Social Movements: Global Network of Knowledge for Transformative Action.
Support the development and implementation of  the Popular University of Social Movements aimed at the elaboration of knowledge to bridge the gap between theory and practice, searching for a systematic encounter  between those who are mainly devoted to social transformation and those who are mainly devoted to theoretical production.	Active participation as members of the Technical Secretariat of the Popular University of Social Movements.	Launch and implementation of the Popular University of Social Movements	X	X	X
Contribute to the design and development of the new cultural translation model of the Popular University of Social Movements	Co-organization of workshops: A dialogue between  peoples of the South, to put the cultural translation model in motion and test it, taking as a pilot initiative for 2006 the dialogue between SADC and Mercosur	Share the new cultural translation model with ICAE  members and adult educators' movement.	X	X	X
	Evaluation of the pilot initiative and definition of proposals for 2007 and 2008.	A concrete plan of action for 2007 and 2008 based on lessons learnt	X	X	X
	UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development
Support regional and international articulation of environmental educators' network and promote and ICAE task force of experts to work on education for sustainable development	Participation in the Ibero-American and world environmental education congress, with the participation of NGOs, public and private institutions, the academy, activists,  social movements, educators and reginal and international bodies, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Environment of Brazil  and local and regional municipalities.	ICAE task force on education for sustainable development with the participation of national and regional members in all areas of adult learning	X	X	X
	Participation in UNESCO's NGOs international conferences on knowledge for all and sustainable development.	Keep informed  and engage ICAE members.   Prepare the AE social movement  view of the thematic of CONFINTEA VI on AE and Environment	X	X	X
	WTO and International Gender and Trade Network
Develop skills that enable ICAE network to follow the global scenarios on special issues which may have impacts on the right to learn of young and adults.	Study and develop an advocacy proposal on the issue of privatization of services, within the framework of the WTO.	Specific advocacy tools.	X	X
	Elaborate a joint proposal with the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) that includes the right to quality public services for all, particularly, education	A proposal that links education and trade	X	X	X
Strategy 3:  Citizens' watch on the right to education and lifelong learning
Specific Objectives	Activities	Expected Results	2006	2007	2008
Follow up the implementation of the commitments  on the right to learn of men and women agreed upon in the UN conferences: CONFINTEA, EFA, MDG`s.	Involve in global coalitions and campaigns on adult education-learning and poverty eradication.	Global and national campaigns on the right to learn for all.    Linking reciprocally the AE networks and the social movments  around the right to learn	X	X	X
	Participation in the follow-up of the MDGs. Advocacy actions and political pressure at local, regional and global level.	Enlarging the interpretation of the MDG goals to include the priority of Adult literacy and adult learning  in relation to basic education, to gender equity, to poverty eradication, to environment., to health and to international  cooperation.	X	X	X
	Participation of ICAE in the 4 regional preparatory meetings  and thematic cnsultation for CONFINTEA VI	Advocacy actions			X
	Collect information at national level and disseminate the results through national and global campaigns	Campaigns in motion for sensitization and advocacy			X
	Develop documents of political influence  for the right to quality education for all towards the EFA mid-term review and CONFINTEA VI	Long term preparation of ICAE Citizens report for CONFINTEA VI		X	X
Develop a specific proposal  during the ICAE General Assembly (Nairobi 2007) towards  CONFINTEA VI, ensuring a transsectorial vision of Adult learning  as an enabling right in all areas and activities	Elaborate ICAE campaign strategies for advocacy for CONFINTEA VI preparatory process including the promotion of the Adult Learners Week program	Active participation of regional bodies and national members of ICAE		X	X
Contribute to the development of civil society perspectives on the strenghtening and democratization of the UN, within the MDGs framework	Go on working in the International  Group:  the UN People’s Assembly. through an active participation in meetings, campaigns and activities organized by the international coalitions involved in the UN reform process.	Consolidate the ECOSOC role in the UN	X	X	X