In the rural areas there was literacy and numeracy instruction targeted at women.

The literacy programmes were functional in the sense that they also taught numeracy and income related entrepreneurial skills.

Those who grew up with the children s educational TV show Sesame Street know that it gives five year olds easy to take lessons in literacy, numeracy, and social skills.

22. Bearing in mind that literacy and numeracy are preconditions for access to and effective use of ICT, Governments should promote opportunities through formal and non formal channels for young persons to acquire the appropriate knowledge.

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

It has also been observed that Viet Nam, with its high rates of literacy and numeracy, long experience with mass organizations and ability to mobilize people down to the village level, has sufficient absorptive capacity to continue moving forward in developing programmes and strategies for reducing poverty.

Moreover, an estimated 250 million children are receiving educations of such poor quality that they never attain even the most basic benchmarks in literacy and numeracy. As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim remarked at the recent World Education Forum in Korea, if these children all inhabited one country, it would be the fifth largest on earth.