Global Perspectives on Recognising Non-formal and Informal Learning

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) continues to play a central role in the international vision of developing and extending lifelong learning across the globe. Since 1972 and the release of the pathbreaking Learning to Be report by UNESCO, the Organization has provided detailed and timely research into lifelong learning with a strong focus on promoting equality
and meaningful development around the world. In UNESCO, the importance of recognition, validation and accreditation of nonformal and informal learning (RVA) has been discussed since the UNESCO General
Conference in 2005.1 In this context, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning located in Hamburg, Germany, conducted analyses of national policies and practice of RVA drawing on data from Member States. More recently, the Belém Framework for Action highlighted UNESCO's role by developing guidelines on all learning outcomes including those acquired through non-formal and informal learning so that these may be recognised and validated. At the same time, it called on member states to develop or improve structures and mechanisms for the recognition of all forms of learning by establishing equivalency frameworks.
[Cham: 2015]

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