What

The Literacy Now conference will bring together leading minds from around the world to discuss the crisis of literacy poverty, and work together to create a roadmap to end literacy poverty in a time-bound mission. The conference seeks to:

• Encourage all stakeholders, including governments, corporations and the international development community, to declare literacy poverty as an emergency.
• Foster sharing of ideas, experiences and case-studies and stimulate debate on policies and programs to accelerate literacy progress.
• Provide networking opportunities and facilitate collaboration between leading practitioners and theorists in the field of literacy.
• Garner commitment by corporations and donors to prioritize funding literacy programs.
• Inspire universities and schools to make volunteering for literacy a component of their curriculum.
• Reach consensus and adopt a manifesto for ending global literacy poverty by 2030, including a roadmap for how to get there.

The conference marks the launch of the Disruptive Global Movement to End Literacy Poverty. It will be followed up by annual conferences in which stakeholders share stories of best practices and discuss progress towards their targets, encouraging each other in their commitment to end the literacy poverty crisis by 2030.

Stakeholders

• The movement seeks to bring together crucial stakeholders:
• Government including Country Heads, Prime Ministers and Presidents, Ministers and Secretaries of Education
• Multilateral Agencies including Heads of UN Agencies, The World Bank and other International Development Agencies
• Donors including Heads of Corporations, Foundations and Charitable Trusts
• Civil Societies including Heads of NGOs, Voluntary Associations and Social Enterprises
• Educational Institutions including Heads of Schools, Colleges and Universities; Researchers and Faculty

When

The virtual conference will be held 8-11 September 2022. It will include

• Plenary sessions with keynote speakers
• Concurrent forums on various sub-themes
• Awards for groundbreaking work
• Exhibitions by partner organisations

Themes

• THEME 1
• THEME 2
• THEME 3
• THEME 4
• THEME 5
• THEME 6

Register

Register yourself and your organization to attend the key first conference for Ending Literacy Poverty Register Here