These are identified through a series of pre-enrolment Functional Literacy Tests (FLT) and group-based activities.
In the ten years since its inception, UNIVA has trained over 5, 000 learners in functional literacy skills.
The report said that five million adults lacked functional literacy and more than 17 million had difficulties with numbers.
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Thus, apart from consolidating the learners' literacy skills, the PLP also endeavours to empower them through functional literacy learning and vocational training.
But there needs to be a balance between mastering functional literacy and numeracy and discovering the enjoyment and pleasure of books, music, art and drama.
The 2008 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) indicated the functional literacy among persons ages 10 to 64 was 88.7 per cent for girls and women and 84.2 per cent for boys and men.
According to a recent study, the Functional Adult Literacy Programme (FALP) which endeavoured to promote youth and adult functional literacy, was only accessible to about 5% of the potential beneficiaries while only about 37.4% of children who completed primary school under the UPE programme were able to access secondary education.
The government also introduced the Functional Adult Literacy Programme (FAL) as a component of the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP).
In recent years, the government of Uganda has made concerted attempts to reduce the levels of illiteracy among its population through Universal Primary Education (UPE) for children and Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) for adults and out-of-school youth.
UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)
This programme is selected for serving the learning and training needs of the rural community, and particularly those of women and girls, through the provision of basic literacy and functional skills in over 950 centres.
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