Portfolio Committee on Education 19 October 2007 Kha ri gude Mass Literacy Campaign and ABET

1. Portfolio Committee on Education 19 October 2007 Kha ri gude Mass Literacy Campaign and ABET

2. The Campaign target To reach 4.7 million adults who are illiterate by the end of 2012 • To meet Dakar 2000 promise to reduce illiteracy by at least 50% by 2015 • To have UNESCO declare South Africa a territory free of illiteracy

3. What the campaign is about • A single integrated mass campaign aimed at reaching illiterate people, wherever they are; • Supported by the full range of government departments and initiatives; • All sectors participating - religious bodies, business organisations, traditional leaders and non-governmental organisations

4. A literacy campaign linked to national and international policies and initiatives • The Dakar EFA goals • The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) • The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative - South Africa (AsgiSA) • The Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition (JIPSA) • The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) • National Youth Service • The social grant programme • The FIFA 2010 World Football Cup • The Community Development Workers programme (CDW)

5. Elements of the Plan • Rationale and operational principles • Learning outcomes to be achieved (in all languages) • Detailed strategy on structures and processes for • Governance, organisational matters and financial management • Curriculum, materials, advocacy and educator training • Monitoring, evaluation and research • Gear up requirements including proposal for IMC • Targeting of learners, including access to the disabled and women • Ensure youth participation in implementation and as beneficiaries • Mobilisation of other partners and civil society

6. Plan phases in the eradication of illiteracy Present Illiteracy Free Phase 1 (2007) Phase 2 2008 – 2010 Phase 3 2011 – 2012 Organisational set-up Materials Development (all languages) Volunteer Educator Training Identify Pilot Sites Implementation of Literacy Campaign 2008 – Selected sites Limited learner numbers To reach 3.22 million by 2011 Mop up (another 1.48 million) UNESCO review Continuing adult education programmes through Department Continuous Monitoring, Evaluation and Research

7. Organisational structures Principles • Overseen by Inter-Ministerial Committee • Firmly located within the public service as defined in the Public Service Act • Sufficiently autonomous from departmental line functions to allow for speedy and flexible implementation • Focused exclusively on the campaign • Possible mechanisms • Section 21 Company (like NSFAS) Easy to establish; requires Cabinet approval. Relatively autonomous • Use of NGO through Tender Feasible; could attract NGO consortium or private company; would require tight control of contracted agencies • HE institution Has been used before but capacity to deliver would need to be determined given scale and nature of plan

8. Rands (millions) Year Proposed in Ministerial Committe on Literacy Report Allocated Total (with inflation) MTEF 2007/09 2007 89 20 2008 1,536 350 2009 1,545 480 2010 1,585 2011 984 2012 406 Total 6,145 850 Proposed budget by years

9. Service by and to youth • Youth to play a prime role in the campaign as trained volunteers, in specially organised youth literacy brigades, in learnerships, and, in the mobilization of illiterate youth, as learners. • Unemployed youth serving as tutors will receive a small stipend.

10. Youth opportunities via the campaign • As volunteers • As part of National Youth Service • Through ABET practitioner learnerships • Encouraged or assisted to enter formal teacher training after the campaign • Trainees in community development programmes

11. Progress to date • Cabinet approval of Implementation Plan – 23 August 2007 • Sustaining learning for Kha ri gude graduates – Minister has established a committee to draft a Green Paper on Adult Education and Training (AET) • Presentation to other partners including Social Development (05 October 2007) • Presentation to Social Cluster • Minister of Correctional Services – requested pilot with Offenders in Rehabilitation Centres

12. Progress on materials development • Eight themes identified (along LO themes). • 20 sets of lessons in 11 languages developed to date. (220 lessons) • Braille specialist secured and is part of writing process. In process of securing sign language specialist • Artwork and design looked at as part of development process • Procurement of easy readers is underway • Team exploring the possibility of using audio and video support

13. Key tasks for next month • Continue with writing process • Finalise recommendation for an appropriate institutional form including how we complement existing provincial initiatives • Setting up of expanded advisory committee • Identifying sites for delivery in 2008

14. Nature of partnerships • Assistance with identification of learning sites • Assistance with identification of potential learners • Assistance with enriching materials development process (forms and relevant documents for translation into indigenous languages • Assistance with identification/development of easy readers for adults

15. Rationale for Revamping AET • Challenges • Conceptual • Narrow conceptualisation of basic education • Unresponsive curriculum (formal vs non formal) • Funding • Implementation • Night school syndrome and participation rates • Educator conditions of service • Monitoring and evaluation

16. Green Paper process • Committee set up to advise on a revamped AET system • Committee to advise on • what SA must respond to in terms of adul education • what the agenda of adult education should be • who must get adult education • what programmes and what methods • how teachers should be developed and renumerated • what institutions for AE • how to deal with language • what governance structures • who funds what • role of intellectual capacity

17. Forward to an illiteracy freeSouth Africa Khari gude - Masifunde Thank you