UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize

The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize (Korean, Hangeul : 유네스코 세종대왕 문해상) is an annual prize awarded to three institutions, organizations or individuals "for their contribution to the fight against illiteracy."^[1]

It is funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea which first offered the Prize in 1989,^[2] honouring the outstanding contribution made to literacy by Sejong the Great who created the Korean alphabet Hangul. The Prize specialises from other UNESCO Literacy Prizes that "it gives special consideration to the development and use of mother-tongue literacy education and training."

Each award consists of a sum of US $20,000, a silver medal and a certificate.

Recent laureates

2017

• Center for the Study of Learning (CSLP) at Concordia University (Canada) CSLP at Concordia University is awarded for Using Educational Technology to Develop Essential Educational Competencies in Sub-Saharan Africa project, which develops and distributes its material internationally free of charge
• We Love Reading (Jordan) is honoured as a programme with a virtual community that offers online read-aloud trainings for parents, mobilizes volunteers to read aloud in community spaces to children and provides age-appropriate material through a digital library.

2016

• Patani Malay-Thai Bi/Multilingual Education Project (PMT-MLE), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University - Thailand
• Books for rural areas of Viet Nam, Center for Knowledge Assistance and Community Development - Viet Nam

2013

• Mother Tongue Literacy in the Guera Region programme, Federation of Associations for the Promotion of Guera Languages - Chad
• Saakshar Bharat (Literate India) Mission, National Literacy Mission Authority, Ministry of Human Resource Development - India

2012

• Directorate of Community Education Development - Indonesia
• National Adult Literacy Programme, Pentecostal Church - Rwanda
• Honourable Mention: Directorate of Literacy and Adult Education - Niger

2011

• National Literacy Service - Burundi
• National Institute for the Education of Adults - Mexico
• Honourable Mention: City Literacy Coordinating Council, Tagum City - Philippines

2010

• Virtual Assisted Literacy Programme, The North Catholic University Foundation, Antioquia - Colombia
• General Directorate of Adult Training - Cape Verde
• Family Literacy Project (FLY) - Hambourg

2009

• Nirantar - India
• Tin Tua - Burkina Faso

2008

• People's Action Forum, Reflect and HIV/AIDS - Zambia
• Honourable Mention: BBC-RAW (Reading and Writing) - UK

2007

• TOSTAN - Senegal
• The Children's Book Project - Tanzania

2006

• Youth and Adult Literacy and Education Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute of the Republic of Cuba (IPLAC) - Cuba
• Mother Child Education Foundation - Turkey

2005

• AULA Cultural Association - Spain
• GOAL Sudan - Sudan

2004

• Alfabetização Solidária (AlfaSol)] - Brazil
• The Steering Group of Literacy Education in Qinghai Province - China

2003

• Tembaletu Community Education Centre - South Africa
• International Reflect Circle (CIRAC)

2002

• Regional Centre for Adult Education (ASFEC) - Egypt
• Bunyad Literacy Community Council (BLCC) - Pakistan

2001

• Tianshui Education Commission, Gansu Province - China
• Alfatitbonit/Alfa Desalin Project - Haiti

2000

• Juvenile Education - Iraq
• National Literacy and Basic Education Directorate - Senegal

See also

• List of international literacy prizes
• International Literacy Day
• United Nations Literacy Decade
• UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize
• UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy
• Noma Literacy Prize

External links

• UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize
• UNESCO International Literacy Prizes

References

1. [United Nations Homepage] UNESCO International Literacy Prizes....The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize (3 awards) : Established in 1989, with the support of the Government of the Republic of Korea. It gives special consideration to mother language-based literacy development. Each of the three UNESCO King Sejong prizewinners receives a medal, a diploma and US$20.000.
2. [네이버 지식백과] 세종대왕상 [King Sejong Prize, 世宗大王賞] (두산백과).....유네스코가 세계 각국에서 문맹퇴치사업에 가장 공이 많은 개인이나 단체를 뽑아 매년 시상하는 문맹퇴치 공로상. 1989년 6월 한국정부의 제의에 따라 국제연합교육과학문화기구(유네스코) 집행위원회에서 제정, 1990년부터 대상자를 뽑아 문맹퇴치의 날인 매년 9월 8일에 수상한다.