FYI..... ____________________________________ From: William McQueen <_william.mcqueen@alumni.utoronto.ca_ (mailto:william.mcqueen@alumni.utoronto.ca) > Date: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 1:52 PM To: "_cannet-aedl@fireweedmedia.ca_ (mailto:cannet-aedl@fireweedmedia.ca) " <_cannet-aedl@fireweedmedia.ca_ (mailto:cannet-aedl@fireweedmedia.ca) > Subject: [CAEDL-L] Fwd: 2015 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes - Call for proposals - Jury members ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Nesbit <_tnesbit@sfu.ca_ (mailto:tnesbit@sfu.ca) > Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM Subject: Fwd: 2015 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes - Call for proposals - Jury members Subject: 2015 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes - Call for proposals - Jury members Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Let me first wish you a prosperous year full with happiness and fulfilment. As you know, the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes are an important instrument for UNESCO's efforts to promote literacy and literate environments. Since their establishment in 1967, UNESCO has awarded the Prizes to over 460 outstanding and innovative literacy programmes undertaken by governments, NGOs and individuals across the world. Currently, the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes consist of two distinct Prizes; namely: 1. the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, established in 1989, thanks to the generosity of the Government of the Republic of Korea, and 2. the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, established in 2005, thanks to the generosity of the government of the People's Republic of China. The International Jury of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes meets in Paris, France, once a year to assess candidatures submitted by Member States or by international non-governmental organizations in official partnership with UNESCO in order to recommend programmes appropriate for the Prizes to the UNESCO Director-General who makes a decision. As indicated by the current Statutes (see attached, the two Literacy Prizes Statutes) and the Prize Strategy (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002202/220226e.pdf), the International Jury is composed of five members appointed by the UNESCO Director-General for a two-year periods for a maximum period of six years considering a gender and regional balance. The Jury members are personalities with expertise and reputation in the relevant fields and fulfil their functions based on the principle of non-payment of honoraria. For the 2015 edition of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes, four new members need to be selected (due to the completion of their mandate and the resignation of one member in 2014), preferably from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America. The fifth Jury member from Arab States will remain in service for this year's edition. In this context, I am writing to you in order to launch, through your networks and Field Offices website, the attached call for proposal in order to select appropriate literacy experts from your region who could potentially be a good member of the International Jury. We would appreciate, therefore, if you could disseminate the attached call for proposal in your region so that the potential candidates for a member of the International Jury can be invited to express their interest to the Section for Youth, Literacy and Skills Development in the Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems of UNESCO) by sending email to _literacyprizes@unesco.org_ (mailto:literacyprizes@unesco.org) <mailto:_literacyprizes@unesco.org_ (mailto:literacyprizes@unesco.org) > no later than 28 February 2015. The successful candidates are expected to be contacted by the end of February 2015 and will be requested to participate in a meeting of the International Jury which may take place in late spring 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contribution. Best regards, Borhene Chakroun Section for Youth, Literacy and Skills Development Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems (ED/PLS) Attachments: * Call for proposal * Statutes of the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize * Statues of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy