Digital skills training of literacy educators

The UNESCO-led Global Education Coalition and the Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL) launched an initiative to promote quality literacy provision by increasing effective use of technologies in literacy instruction and learning, during and beyond major crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this continuing initiative, the two parties will:

• build the capacities of youth and adult literacy educators in selected GAL countries by developing and offering a set of training modules and designing digital skills monitoring and assessment tools;
• enhance the capacities of relevant national institutions, such as ministries of education, ministries of higher education, teacher-training institutions and colleges, and NGOs that train and support youth and adult literacy educators, and contribute to network-building among relevant literacy stakeholders and partners.

In 2021 and 2022, UIL developed a Digital Competency Framework for Literacy Educators with corresponding training modules. Since then, the initiative has been scaled up. It is currently being implemented in:

• Bangladesh;
• Cote d’ Ivoire;
• Egypt;
• The Kingdom of Morocco;
• Nigeria.

The goal: training 100,000 literacy educators from at least 10 GAL countries in the effective use of technologies in literacy teaching and learning.