A/RES/65/183 Concerned about the challenges that the financial and economic crisis poses to education budgets and international funding for education, with a possible negative effect on spending for literacy programmes, Recalling its resolution 64/290 of 9 July 2010 on the right to education in emergency situations, Concerned that, according to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates, one third of the children not attending school are children with disabilities and that the literacy rate among adults with disabilities is as low as 3 per cent in some countries, Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Director-General of the 1. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the implementation of the International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade, 4 including the strategic priorities outlined therein for the next phase of the Decade and beyond; 3F 2. Takes note of the 2008 publication The Global Literacy Challenge: A profile of youth and adult literacy at the mid-point of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003–2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized, the first Global Report on Adult Learning and Education, prepared for the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education, held in Belém, Brazil, from 1 to 4 December 2009, the 2009 review of the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment, the synthesis report of the Eighth E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting on Education for All, held in Abuja from 21 to 24 June 2010, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization programme reports; Also takes note of the outcome documents of the five regional 3. preparatory conferences, held in 2008 and 2009 in preparation for the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Adult Education, as well as the summary outcomes of the Regional Conferences in Support of Global Literacy, held in Azerbaijan, China, India, Mali, Mexico and Qatar in 2007 and 2008, which indicate that in the second half of the Decade appropriate networks should be developed for greater regional collaboration; Recognizes that a renewed collective commitment and stronger 4. international partnerships in support of literacy efforts at the national level will be needed if the objectives of the Decade are to be met; Calls upon Member States, their development partners, the international 5. donor community, the private sector and civil society, in accordance with national law, to further scale up quality literacy efforts and consider the post-2012 strategy for addressing youth and adult literacy challenges, bearing in mind that just over two years remain of the Decade and that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching; Recognizes the importance of continuing to implement national 6. programmes and measures to eliminate illiteracy worldwide as part of the commitments made in the Dakar Framework for Action on Education for All, _______________ 4 See A/65/172. 3