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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Para espaņol favor usar google traductor </span></i></b><span lang=ES-MX style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><i><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Veuillez utiliser google translator pour traduire les articles qui ne sont pas en franįais</span></i></b><span lang=FR style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:62.85pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#3939EF'>ICAE Virtual Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#3939EF'>“Adult Education and Development: Post 2015”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#3939EF'>Input by Cecilia "Thea" V. Soriano, ASPBAE Programmes and Operations Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The year 2015 is a landmark for renewed commitments to Education for All (EFA) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) coupled with a continuing review of actions under CONFINTEA 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The confluence of the three global platforms as well as the ongoing education post 2015 processes present both opportunities and challenges in charting a vision and agenda for quality education and lifelong learning beyond 2015. Bringing the voices of the marginalized into the public debates remains a daunting task. Bridging global discourses with the realities in countries and creating more spaces for dialogues within countries remain to be seen. Translating rhetoric to concrete goals and targets for lifelong learning even before 2015 is a key concern for governments and civil society alike. There is clearly a consensus amongst stakeholders to ensure that policy development is translated into education programs and commitments NOW, leading to even more steadfast support for education beyond 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A case in point is the Post 2015 education agenda presented by UNESCO in the last EFA Steering Committee. The overarching goal of “Ensure inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030” is definitely an agenda that will make a difference in the lives of children, youth and adult should it be accompanied with concrete targets and financing. Not to be overlooked, amidst the discussions around education beyond 2015, is the urgent support for the “Big Push” to start addressing the unfinished EFA agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Asia Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) believes that the agenda and the multi-stakeholder processes leading to agenda setting are equally important. As a regional network of more than 200 organizations in Asia Pacific dedicated to youth and adult education practice and advocacy for Education for All, it persistently gives prominence to the voices of the people in education issues, especially the marginalized children, youth and adults in the region. Its education post 2015 agenda is grounded on the realities and articulation of civil society in the more than 30 countries where it has a membership base.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ASPBAE believes that education is a right. It transformed the meaning of 3Rs for EFA: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>R</span></b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ight of children, youth and adults regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, geographical location, culture and socio-economic status<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>R</span></b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>esponsibility of the government to guarantee and for multilateral institutions to support education so that no one is left behind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>R</span></b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>esources adequate to finance quality education and lifelong learning for all that strategically support formal, non-formal and informal education as well as other education systems (such as the indigenous learning system)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To move forward with EFA and to ensure that people are able to learn throughout their lives, it is imperative to have clear, definitive and stand alone goals for education beyond 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Education is equally an enabling right. For one, it must be integrated into the SDGs of poverty eradication, inclusive growth and sustainable development. The SDGs will only be achieved when people are empowered through education and lifelong learning, when their potentials are harnessed so they are able to participate with dignity in the economic and social spheres of their family, work and community life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Asia-Pacific Contexts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Amidst the promises of strong economy and growth, the Asia-Pacific region is punctuated by severe inequality. The marginalized is the majority in Asia-Pacific. Clearly education and lifelong learning will be an equalizer:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Of the 774 million adults (15 yrs old and over) illiterate worldwide, 63.8% are women,</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>65% or 518 million adult illiterates are in Asia-Pacific (53% in South and West Asia, 12% in East Asia and Pacific)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Asia-Pacific is experiencing a youth bulge, with over 60 percent of the world’s youth or more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years old residing in the region<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Unfortunately, of the approx. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>75 million youth worldwide without work (2011), 45% is in Asia Pacific with more women among their ranks (except in East Asia)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It is a region most vulnerable to the effects of climate change as evidenced by the onslaught of typhoon surge, tsunami, earthquakes and floods in recent years<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ASEAN 2015 will signal the free flow of goods, services and labor within the sub-region. However, the promise of growth will be elusive to many marginalized people who are not capable of contributing through expertise and skilled labour. ILO reports that people with more education are able to migrate and work abroad but those from the marginalized are either trafficked or exploited in hazardous work outside of their country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Education Post 2015 Agenda in Asia Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Asia-Pacific presents unique education situations with its diversity of cultures, languages and histories. To ensure access to quality education and learning throughout life for all, ASPBAE calls on governments, multilateral institutions and other decision-makers in education to rethink and act together for EFA, CONFINTEA 6 and SDGs. Towards transformative education envisaging inclusive growth, active citizenship and sustainable development, it is imperative for decision makers to act on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Expanded Access <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Education should go beyond schooling. Following the lifelong learning rhetoric, governments should invest heavily and side by side with ECCD, primary and secondary education, in youth and adult education, as part of the basic education.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Expanded access means education for all mediated through formal, non-formal and informal education. Making these pathways to education work for the marginalized means expanded structures for education as well, where government needs to invest in community learning centers (CLCs), museums and libraries as sites of learning. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Expanded access has implications for support systems that need to be in place to encourage learning. Day care centers and counselling, for example are pivotal for women’s participation in empowering literacy programs. Education support can also be in the form of transportation, food subsidies and other social protection measures that hinder marginalized sectors’ participation in education.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Quality education and lifelong learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Quality education measured not only in terms of efficiency but more importantly defined by what matters. Eradicating poverty, ensuring healthy lives, sustainable economy as targeted under the Social Development Goals can be a starting point for which quality of education can be anchored on.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Quality education, aside from the core competencies, encompasses </span><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222'>developing knowledge, competencies, and values to achieve the individual’s full potential; promoting innovation, creativity and critical thinking; and contributing to society in promoting peace, democratic citizenship, good governance, non discrimination, and in building a just and sustainable world. </span><b><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lifelong learning for children, youth and adults to be accessible and relevant to all should be provided through formal, non-formal, informal education and through other education systems such as the indigenous learning systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>With more than 3,200 languages in Asia-Pacific, multilingual education plays a major role in realizing access to quality education and lifelong learning for all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Government financing of fully-costed youth and adult education and learning programs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>National budgets for education and adult learning and education must be increased drastically from its current average government spending in Asia which is one per cent (1%) of the education budget to at least three to six per cent (3-6%) of the national education budget<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoCommentText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Review policies on privatisation of education and public private partnership in education as evidences indicate threats to the right to education and further marginalization of the poor and excluded. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoCommentText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Governments should also invest in the necessary setting up of education structures that will ensure quality assurance, teacher training and development, differentiated learning assessments for children, youth and adults, and realizing multiple pathways to learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoCommentText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Participation of civil society and youth in education governance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Civil society participation has been proven pivotal in realising change in society, not only acting as watch dog but in realizing needed reforms in government and governance. In education, there had been leaps in civil society participation in the last 13 years. In Asia-Pacific, fourteen (14) coalitions in 14 countries have been formally engaged with government in different facets of education governance. In countries like in Cambodia, the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea, civil society is part of the government mechanism for EFA. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ASPBAE believes within the dynamic CSO participation in education in the region, it is important to highlight the importance of <b>Youth participation and Learners’ voices </b>in the education sector. At the center of quality education and lifelong learning are the learners, not only as beneficiaries of education but as active participants in policy development, defining quality in education, ensuring quality assurance in provision and in education governance as a whole. Quality education and lifelong learning should respect and address the different learning needs and styles of children, youth and adults.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As governance heavily impacts on delivering efficient and effective education and lifelong learning, there should be clear goals towards monitoring governments’ adherence to good governance in the EFA goals. There should be clear indicators on 1)Transparency, where education policies, programs and information are disseminated publicly, accessible and clear to all 2)Accountability, where education resources are managed efficiently and effectively and delivered by institutions and officials for the common good 3) Participation, where all stakeholders including learners, parents, teachers and civil society organizations are strategically engaged in policy development, implementation and monitoring of education and 4) Justice, where those who were denied education be at the core of the EFA agenda, where governments reach out to learners who missed out on quality education, addressing layers of marginalization that impede the people’s access to quality education and lifelong learning..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-PH style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-PH><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>