[Icaeaeducationdevp2015] [23] Paul Bélanger

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ICAE Virtual Seminar

“Adult Education and Development: Post 2015”

 

The MDGs post 2015

The crucial issues

Paul Bélanger

 

Having read with great interest all contributions since today, a consensus
is emerging: we will not succeed correcting the proposal on the table
without a large citizens’ movement asserting what is missing to make this
world agenda an efficient guide for global and national development efforts
to be taken during the next 15 years.

 

Something clear is emerging from our seminar: in health, in environment and
in education as well as in an economy that could meet people’s everyday
needs, no real and sustainable change could happen without the active and
creative participation of women and men, and, consequently, without
opportunities for all to improve, all along their life, their capacity to
act individually and collectively.

 

For example,

 

* Without lifelong health promotion and education, how can we increase the
health status of women and men in all social groups and thus control the
exponential rise of curative care budgets? 

* Without possibilities for local citizens to increase their awareness and
monitoring competencies, how could we modify the heavy ecological trends now
taking place and thus reduce the foreseen costs? 

* Without parental education, thus without intergenerational cooperation,
how could it be possible to democratize education, that is to increase the
participation of first generation school students?

* Without relevant education and training available to all people at work,
how can we improve the productive level of our economies and thus be able to
redistribute the benefit of such sustainable economic development? 

* Without agricultural extension, how can we achieve agrarian reform,
increase agricultural productivity and do so in an ecological ways, thus
helping solve the current food crisis?

* How could we reduce growing economic social and cultural inequality and
hence poverty, without giving people opportunities in participate in work
oriented adult learning and education?

* Without prison education, how could we enhance the socio-professional
insertion of former detainees and thus helping hundreds of thousands of
people to become productive citizens?

 

Empowerment through education is an enabling right that should be associated
to all development goals, if these goals have to be achieved. We need,
through such examples, to underline the inadequacies of the current Post2015
proposal. Its narrow approach restricting the required skills to be
developed and limiting the publics or age groups to have access to education
and learning opportunities will have serious negative economic and
socio-cultural impact.

 

Though the current version of Post-2015 statement recognizes lifelong
learning, we need to explain that lifelong learning cannot be efficient if
it does not become life large and life rooted.  Our concern is to ensure the
concrete implementation of all universal goals. Such vision of lifelong
learning and hence of adult and youth education make the difference between
top down policies or dry statements and efficiently implemented priorities.
Precisely to be efficient, we could not limit the education agenda to
primary education. 

 

Moreover, two transversal priorities need to be underlined. First, the right
to learn without discrimination based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, class
and disabilities, including the right of education and learning of migrant
women and men, as well as the rights of women operating in the informal
economy and in the so called "traditional" role. Second, the right to
literacy of the forgotten 775 million of adults deprived of this 21st
century essential skill. How, for example, can the Pakistan society achieve
the other MDG without, as Inayatullah said, giving its 60 million so called
illiterate citizens a real opportunity to master this basic competency? 

 

It is not too late to act. It is not too late for local individual
initiatives and international intervention, for reaching out other social
movements and for making use of official and social media, for connecting
with officials doing advocacy through evidence based policy recommendation. 

As Alan Tuckett said on the 10th of March, we need during these coming
crucial eighteen months to join other citizens’ organisations and, all
together, actively participate in this global debate. Our collective voice,
coming from all continents and all areas of human activities, needs to be
expressed and resonated at all levels in order to make a much needed
difference in the on-going global debate. Our objective is to ensure that
the POST-2015 goals will constitute a real and efficient development agenda.

 

 



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