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Since the early 90's groups of learners across the world have been meeting with providers and policy makers to contribute to the development of adult learning locally.

Later that decade the Pan Africa adult learners' network was established to bring learners from Africa together to discuss key issues facing adult learning and to establish local networks and groups.

The launch of the international Adult Learners' Week movement across the world in 2000 helped consolidate this work. A central feature of the Week's is to ensure that adult learners take a central role in the delivery of local and national learning festivals. Supported by national Non-Governmental Organisations, many countries developed learners' networks or forums to ensure that learners could talk to policy makers and politicians.

By 2005 the International Adult Learners Week Conference hosted by Norway considered "Education for All in an Era of Increasing Mobility: The Implications for Adult Learning".
During the conference learners called for a more proactive approach to engaging learners at a global level and many began to create partnerships with other countries to help take this forward.

In 2007 the International Adult Learners' Week Conference held in Manchester learners began discussing the possibility of creating a learners charter for the forthcoming Inter-governmental conference, CONFINTEA VI. Following the conference learners began discussing the idea of an International Adult Learners' Charter at a national level.

The 2009 international conference held in Scotland resolved to set up a global adult learners' network and produced a draft international adult learners' charter for consultation. The charter has been endorsed by many of the UN Member States and many of the actions called for have been included in the draft Belem framework.

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