Policy Review on Adult Learning: The Adult Non-formal Education Policy of Mali, West Africa

The shift to democracy was manifested in a constitution voted in 1992 that declared education a fundamental civil right and granted citizens the freedom of organizing themselves around their own needs. [...]new actors emerged in the education sector like the civil society and the private sector. Rapid changes in all societies today are creating new needs in relation with lifelong learning that the policy document doesn't cover sufficiently. [...]the policy document should be amended and completed with enforcement laws to provide adult education professionals and practitioners with instruments that would help to effectively recognize and reorganize the field to adapt it to the changing needs of modern Mali.