ASPBAE Activity Report 2017

Quezon City, Philippines – 2017 was the first year of implementation of the new strategic directions of ASPBAE for 2017-2020 as defined by the 7th General Assembly in 2016 and further concretised in plans and activities by the newly-elected Executive Council in its meeting held from 4-7 February 2018 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

The Overall objective of ASPBAE’s work for the period is, ‘To enhance capacities of ASPBAE as a regional, membership-based organisation, equipped to optimise the national, regional, and global spaces offered by the SDGs and SDG 4 policy processes to advance the right to quality basic, youth, and adult education within a lifelong learning framework’.

This will manifest specifically in increased abilities to press governments, donors, intergovernmental bodies, and financing institutions to strengthen public education systems that deliver better in securing the right of all to quality basic, youth, and adult education within a lifelong learning frame; stronger fronts for coordinated civil society education advocacy actions; wider linkages with other civil society networks and organisations; and an institutionally robust ASPBAE, able to offer a platform for exchange and learning of its members and CSOs working to advance the right to education and lifelong learning.

ASPBAE intends to meet the objectives set forth in the strategic plan through the pursuit of its 4 Core Strategies of Policy Advocacy, Leadership and Capacity Building, Building Strategic Partnerships, and Institutional Strengthening.

This Activity Report outlines the activities undertaken in 2017 in this respect.