UNGEI Ediscussion #1: Early Childhood Care and Education

UNGEI GirlsEd-Net eDiscussion #2: Life Skills Education and the EFA Movement Message sent 15 January 2007 http://www.ungei.org/listserve/index_1265.html

UNGEI eDiscussion #2: Life Skills Education and the EFA Movement

Moderator: Anna Maria Hoffmann, Project Officer, HIV/AIDS and Life Skills Education for UNICEF's Education Section

Start: 15 January 2007

Welcome to the second eDiscussion of GirlsEd-Net on "Life Skills Education and the EFA Movement". The purpose of this discussion is to increase our understanding on effective life skills approaches and its applications to various issues such as gender, HIV and AIDS, violence, sustainable development etc. Our hope is also to provide inputs to the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment, as EFA Goal 3 is key to ensuring a rights-based approach to education being the only goal stressing specifically the importance of learning needs of young people, particularly adolescent girls, in the areas of HIV/AIDS, health, violence and other protection issues.

This discussion will be moderated by Anna Maria Hoffmann, Project Officer, HIV/AIDS and Life Skills Education for UNICEF's Education Section.

To start off the discussion, we would like to raise the question of what we mean by life skills and what we know as being effective approaches to life skills education. A common understanding of criteria for success is critical to continuing our dialogue on the required responses. We also hope that the discussion will look at various areas of application in particular gender, HIV and AIDS, and violence, as well as different key strategies formal education and non-formal education.

Please reply to this message and your contributions will be consolidated and disseminated to the rest of the group. For previous discussions, please go to http://www.ungei.org/listserve/index_1091.html.

To further ensure that the real needs of young people are taken into account, children's views have been solicited in UNICEF's Voices of Youth, through online discussions and polls. If you know of young people who would like to add their voices to the discussion, kindly refer them to http://www.unicef.org/voy/discussions/showthread.php?t=5570.

Many thanks and we look forward to a fruitful discussion.