Financing

  • Find money to be able to hold yearly meetings; the annual conference is an ideal way to keep the network strong and provide an oasis for overworked and underpaid literacy workers.

  • Find money to be able to train workers in sectors that specifically concern women.

Increasing Public Awareness

  • Increase public awareness of the issues that concern women in literacy, through regional meetings, exchange sessions, etc.

  • Increase our public profile as a non-governmental organization (NGO) which aims to promote services specially designed to meet the needs of women.

  • Draw up a written declaration that would return the spotlight to International Literacy Year (ILY), possibly taking it up where it's at now.

Political Action

  • Facilitate women's access to literacy programs.

  • Address the issue of child-care, both for women literacy workers and for learners.

  • Ensure that women's issues and literacy become intimately linked and are given prominence within government, ministries and grant organizations.

  • Demystify the fear of feminism, which can neutralize positive political actions for women in education.

  • Demand better working conditions and better salaries for women literacy workers.

  • Continue to increase public awareness and recuperate "political dollars" to achieve that goal.

  • Press for greater promotion of literacy and its social and political status, particularly in the current context of budget cuts.

Studies and Research

  • Evaluate the working conditions of women in literacy.

  • Evaluate the needs of illiterate women.

  • Make the possible links and parallels between feminist literacy work and low literacy rates among women.

  • Examine what it is that makes literacy a feminist problem.

  • Reinforce feminist analysis of literacy (taking charge rather than making do)

Priorities and Choices

  • Ensure that the Wandering Book is published.

  • Determine the most pressing issues each year; make sure that our calls for change and the solutions we propose to the problems are brought to the forefront and known to the public.

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