This 156-page handbook is designed to be a first step in providing a holistic regional resource package for capacity building of institutional frameworks for non-formal education (NFE) personnel in Africa. Facilitators can use the handbook as a basic guide for responding to the specific needs of the learners and for promoting knowledge, skills, and attitudes in reading, writing, and numeracy. According to the publishers, the handbook can be used to support existing national training policies and programmes and is also intended for governmental entities responsible for literacy and NFE, which are expected to adapt it in accordance with local contexts and needs, and also to integrate it into their national training programmes.

The book contains seven modules that each address an essential theme in the context of literacy and non-formal education in Africa.

• Module 1: Community Sensitisation and Mobilisation for Development
• Module 2: Identifying the Needs of the Learners
• Module 3: Organisation, Running and Management of a Community-based Learning Centre (CBLC)
• Module 4: Facilitating Adult Learning
• Module 5: Assessment of Learning Achievement
• Module 6: Capacity Building for Sustainability
• Module 7: Specific Themes

The first six modules cover themes relating to knowledge and skills. The seventh module addresses the need for facilitators to enhance the life skills of their learners and to help them develop positive attitudes with regard to their environment. Each module is divided into several sections, at the end of which there is an exercise to help check the reader’s understanding.

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UNESCO website on July 23, 2009.