Trending: Efforts to raise literacy rates

International Literacy Day 2016 celebrates and honours the past five decades of national and international engagement, efforts and progress made to increase literacy rates around the world. 

It also addresses current challenges and looks to innovative solutions to further boost literacy in the future. 

International Literacy Day is celebrated worldwide, bringing together governments, multi- and bilateral organizations, NGOs, private sectors, communities, teachers, learners and experts in the field. 

On this day also International Literacy Prizes are awarded to people with outstanding solutions that can drive literacy towards achieving the 2030 Education Agenda. This year the focus is on innovation. The main global celebration of the day will take place at UNESCO headquarters, Paris in the form of a two-day conference on September 8 and 9, the highlight of which will be the awarding of the literacy prizes.