SEAMEO CELLL officials attend the India Study Tour at the invitation of ASPBAE and DVV International

26 November - 2 December 2013, New Delhi, India

​Participants were 17 members from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam). This program was within the scope of ASPBAE's 50th anniversary. Participants visited and interacted with ASPBAE and its member organizations - PRIA, IAEA, IVF (India Vision Foundation), Azad Foundation, Nirantar. The topics covered in the Study Tour included:

- Introduction to ASPBAE, (ASPBAE @ 50);
- Post-2015 Agenda for Education and Adult Education in the Asia Pacific Region;
- Global context of Adult Education;
- Context of Development & Challenges of India;
- Nav-Jyoti – Prison Inmates Program;
​- Sustainable development: local & global linkages;
-  Introducation to IAEA’s work;
- Azad Foundation: Alternative Livelihooods for Urban Poor Women;
-  Mainstreaming Gender in Education: the Nirantar experience;

​ASPBAE's activities and its member organizations for adult education and lifelong learning are:

- Gender Mainstreaming: activities concerning gender equity, vocational education for women and teenage girls, and literacy (pria, IVF, Azad Foundation)
- Sustainable development: activities concerning climate change, global warming, sea level rise, afforestation, power supplies, biogas in rural areas, clean water, health and hygiene, climate change education (INECC: Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change)
- Adult education: informal and formal programs (pria, ASPBAE, IVF, Azad Foundation, INECC, IAEA
- Policy advocacy: ASPBAE, PRIA, IAEA, Nirantar.
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