The International Action Plan for Implementing Resolution 56/116
of the Dakar Framework for Action, sometimes referred to as the
“Founding Resolution” for the United Nations Literacy Decade
(2003-2012), called for achieving a 50% improvement in adult
literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to
basic and continuing education for all adults; the Plan calls for a
renewed vision of literacy that goes beyond the limited view of
literacy that prevailed in the past;