He also highlighted the importance of having an enabling ESD curriculum framework and encouraging teachers to be the facilitatorsof the learning process.
Teaching-learning materials are designed to help facilitators to develop the reading and writing skills of their learners through a highly instructive teaching-learning process as well as guided practice by the learners (see pictures below).
However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage oflearning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.
Also on the agenda were discussions on the expansion of education centers, developing learning materials and instruction in different languages as well as teachers and facilitators trainings.