Annual Report 2019: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

This report shows how, in 2019, UIL worked to fulfil its mission, with a focus on youth and adults and a special emphasis on UNESCO’s priority areas of Africa and gender equality. UIL’s vision is for all children, young people and adults to benefit from quality lifelong learning opportunities, within the framework of sustainable development and peace. We promote lifelong learning as the leading educational paradigm for inclusive and sustainable learning societies in the context of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which provides an ambitious set of goals and targets for Member States that together form a coherent, universal framework of reference for our activities. Working to this framework, and recognizing lifelong learning’s important transversal role not only with respect to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education but across all 17 SDGs, UIL has made an impact across a range of fronts, including in the areas of policy advice, capacity development, research, monitoring, and networking and advocacy.