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This chapter explores some relevant activities and initiatives by UNESCO with a view to underlining and exploring how the organization has used its policy-making potential to strengthen adult learning and education. It demonstrates what policy actions cover the promotion of adult education, where and how this policy is made, and UNESCO’s influence and constraints on the formation and use of adult education policy. Also, it describes UNESCO’s specific role of being both a conceptual think tank and a policy advocate, and its impacts on policy-makers, professionals and learners.
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Németh, B. (2015). Lifelong Learning for All Adults? A New Concept for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — Limits and Opportunities for a Changing Intergovernmental Organization. In: Milana, M., Nesbit, T. (eds) Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Learning Policy. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388254_12
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