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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 español 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 français</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='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'><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'>The MDGs post 2015<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'>The crucial issues<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'>Paul Bélanger<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'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US 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-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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,</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US 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-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For example,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* Without possibilities for local citizens to increase their awareness and monitoring competencies, how could we modify the heavy ecological trends now taking place</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>and thus reduce the foreseen costs? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>* 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US 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-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US 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-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Though the current version of Post-2015 statement recognizes lifelong learning, we need to explain that <i>lifelong</i> learning cannot be efficient if it does not become <i>life large</i> and <i>life rooted</i>.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Our concern is to ensure the concrete implementation of all universal goals. Such vision of lifelong learning and hence of adult and youth education </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>make the difference between top down policies or dry statements and efficiently implemented priorities.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Precisely to be efficient, we could not limit the education agenda to primary education. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US 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-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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 w</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>omen 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 21<sup>st</sup> 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? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB 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-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB 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-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As Alan Tuckett said on the 10<sup>th</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>