Overview of Community Learning Centres (CLCs)

Asia Education Project (ASIAED)

Assists in supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and in particular UNESCOs Community Learning Centres (CLC), and Asia and Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL),
which is a regional co-operative programme designed to promote literacy.

Sustainable External Cooperation Programmes for Developing Communities

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Overview of Community Learning Centres (CLCs)

The aim of a CLC is to empower individuals and promote community development through life-long education for all. A CLC can be set up in different compounds in the community, as long as the facility is easily accessible to all. The CLC can function as the venue for education and training, resource and information centre.

UNESCO leads the global Education for All (EFA) movement, aiming to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.

Most CLCs start the activities to meet immediate needs of the community and people in such areas as life skills, income generation through small scale enterprise, health, culture and recreation.

Promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Support through the ASIAED Resource Outreach Centre

Working with Regional CLCs-
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Local Infrastructure and Sanitation Education (LISE)

ASIAED Open Content and Education Platform (OCEP)

ASIAED themes and CDROM resources

Community Learning Centres (CLC) Main Page

Accordingly, CLCs have served commonly agreed interests decided through collective action by community members. Some countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Vietnam have included CLCs as important strategies under the EFA national plans towards 2015. General steps of establishing a CLC:

Set up CLC committee
Identify learning needs
Mobilize community resources
Establish support linkages
Design and develop programmes/activities
Organize staff training
Implement programmes and activities
Monitor and evaluate project