The Civil society adds that through article 10, the state guarantees the right to
education for all Algerian females and Algerian males without discrimination based
on gender, social origin or geographical origin. Article 11 states that the right to
education has become a reality by the generalization of basic education and the
guaranty of equal opportunity in terms of education and further education, following
basic education. Article 12 confirms that education is compulsory for all girls and all
boys aged 6 to 16 years of age. However, the duration of compulsory education can be
extended for two years for students with disabilities.
National Literacy Program:
The Algerian Literacy Association "IQRAA ' is a non-profit NGO, founded in 1990,
is organized throughout the country and has a large number of volunteers. It works in
the field of literacy, education and training, through the implementation of integration
and promotion programmes for populations in rural and remote areas.
Its main objective is to fight against illiteracy, obscurantism, exclusion, school
dropouts and poverty, to inform, educate and mobilize people on the right to
education and its obligation as the only means to fight against this scourge and it
contributes to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as
the United Nations Decade for Literacy.
The literacy program is open to all citizens, it is implemented in schools, youth
centres, training centres, cultural centres, in the business environment (companies
factories institutions etc.) in mosques and in prisons. Several agreements have been
signed with various institutions to facilitate access to the locations and support for
learners.
Since its inception, IQRAA contributed to literacy of over 1,681,000 citizens
including 1,543,906 women:
The programme (Literacy, Education and Integration of Women (AFIF) has helped
train and empower more than 23,000 young women between 18 and 35 years.
As for the insertion in schools, more than 15,232 children have joined formal schools
after strengthening their reading and writing skills in the IQRAA centres.
Teacher training each year reaches out to more than 4,400 volunteers whose education
level ranges from the third year of lower secondary school to baccalaureate and
university.
The design of educational tools has resulted in the development of 10 books with
various contents addressing its "useful learning" programme through the
popularisation of certain laws such as the Family Code or the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights or the rights and duties of prisoners, the fight against violence.
Aided by its partners and donors, IQRAA has built 04 neighbourhood centres for
women; it has rehabilitated 04 others by equipping them with the necessary support
for rural women. To ensure the success of its programme, it equipped two nurseries
children in the South (Abalessa and Ain Amenasse as a support measure).
Through its extensive program, it participated in the Realization of the National
Literacy Strategy adopted by the Government in 2007, which should lead Algeria to
reduce the illiteracy rate by half by 2015.
Several surveys and studies have been carried out by IQRAA in partnership with the
CENEAP. The latest "50 years of struggle against illiteracy in Algeria" announced
that in 2015, the illiteracy rate would be 14.1%.
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