All Children Reading Workshops, Africa 2012

Participating country teams wrote their vision to reduce illiteracy and give all children a chance to read. Watch slideshow

See Also

• All Children Reading Asia Regional Workshop
• Building a Community of Practice on Early Grade Reading
• Textbooks and Educational Materials Workshop
• Data and Metrics Workshop

Date: Feb. 28-March 2 and March 12-15, 2012, Kigali, Rwanda

Partner Organizations: AFD, CIDA, DFID, GIZ, Hewlett Foundation, Swiss Development Cooperation - Niger, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, World Bank. See below for the full list of partner organizations.

Country Delegations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Haiti, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Program:The workshop addressed the literacy crisis affecting developing countries where between 25% and 75% of children don't learn how to read and over 250 million children are struggling to read even basic words.

Participants engaged with technical experts and discussed their experiences and practices in the following fields:

• Teacher training
• Mother tongue instruction, language transition
• Learning materials, reading books, curriculum and lesson plans
• Assessment tools, monitoring and evaluation
• Finance and sustainability, campaigning and policy dialogue.

The discussion outcomes were edited into an actionable plan to improve early grade reading and boost children's literacy.