Leadership and capacity building have been strategic priority areas of ASPBAE for over 20 years. It has been oriented to strengthening youth and adult education practice, especially to enhance the competencies of adult education practitioners among its member organisations who run education programmes benefitting marginalised and vulnerable groups and communities in the region. It has also been oriented to strengthening capacities of civil society organisations in education advocacy - advancing the right to education and lifelong learning of children, youth, and adults in the Asia Pacific region.
The more current vehicle of its work in leadership and capacity building for adult education practice is the Training for Transformation (TfT) programme which has been a core programmatic expression of this strategy since 2009 and which advances innovative, pro-poor, rights-based adult education through targeted activities. ASPBAE’s Training for Transformation (TfT) programme is geared towards enhancing capacities of national education campaign coalitions in the Asia Pacific to advance the full SDG 4-Education 2030 agenda within the wider SDGs - advocating for more and better education financing and institutionalised spaces of civil society participation in education policy. The TfT programme also aims to deepen capacities of practitioners of youth and adult education to actively promote transformative youth and adult education work, and ensure a stronger voice of young people in ASPBAE’s work and advocacies as key stakeholders in education and lifelong learning.
In this section, we highlight three categories that present ASPBAE’s TfT work – Information, Innovations, and the BLDC, (Basic Leadership Development Course, ASPBAE’s flagship training programme). It is through these three streams that we offer you timely and relevant information about ASPBAE’s events, activities, initiatives, resources, and experiences related to the TfT programme.
ASPBAE’s Training for Transformation (TfT) programme is primarily oriented towards strengthening youth and adult education practice, especially to enhance the competencies of youth and adult education practitioners among ASPBAE's member organisations.
We present to you latest TfT news, events, updates, and announcements. Click on any of these links to know more about what’s coming up and what the TfT programme has been busy with recently!
The Youth-led Action Research for Transformation project is part of a two-year initiative by ASPBAE and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).MORE
Civil Society Education Partnership(CSEP) Timor Leste, in partnership with ASPBAE, will be implementing the Youth-led. 2019 and 2020.MORE
ASPBAE works towards deepening capacities of practitioners to actively promote transformative youth and adult education work, thus contributing to the development, in their countries, of strong lifelong learning systems, especially attentive to the learning needs of marginalised children, youth, and adults. ASPBAE’s Youth Action Research (YAR) initiative and the study exchanges it facilitates are some key actions that are geared towards enhancing capacities of civil society organisations to strengthen youth and adult education programmes. We also present a rich array of resources – global, regional, and national - that offer analysis, information, and documentation of the body of work around leadership and capacity building.
ASPBAE’s Youth-led Action Research (YAR) project, with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), reinforces a focus on marginalised youth. The youth-led research involves the training of young women from marginalised communities with participatory, action research tools to help them analyse the factors preventing their greater access to and participation in literacy, education, and basic skills programmes and services in their communities. It guides them in defining community actions that can be undertaken, and in engaging in a dialogue with policy makers, adult education providers, and other stakeholders on improving education and skills opportunities.
Applying lessons learnt from the youth-led action research helps enhance the work of participating NGOs in piloting alternative strategies in learning and education programmes and in increasing participation and completion of marginalised young women in education programmes.MORE
ASPBAE organises regional and sub-regional Study Exchanges focused on youth and adult education (YAE) and lifelong learning systems. Traditionally, these exchanges have gathered YAE education practitioners and advocates from civil society in an intensive exposure to YAE provisioning by NGOs and the public sector in a given country. Participation is also open to government representatives, especially from non-formal education departments and local government bodies. In the roll-out of SDG 4, it has become apparent that governments would also benefit from exposure to strong lifelong learning systems, attentive to youth and adult non-formal education.
ASPBAE organises the study exchanges as mutual learning spaces to reflect on how the rich experience and perspectives of participants can be harnessed to influence the strengthening of lifelong learning public policy and provisioning – in curriculum development, training of trainers, and in the processes of developing assessment systems, including recognition, validation, and accreditation of prior non-formal learning.MORE
This section offers a selection of resources covering a range of topics relevant to ASPBAE’s TfT programme.
It also presents photos and videos of various activities and events and features blogs.
Click on the links to download the files. Do remember to site the relevant sources if any of the information is being reproduced and to credit ASPBAE for the photos and videos. Please write to us at aspabe@gmail.com for questions and clarifications.MORE
ASPBAE’s flagship training programme, the Basic Leadership Development Course (BLDC), is an annual course oriented to building capacities of emerging leaders among ASPBAE’s member organisations. The BLDCs is designed primarily to build leadership skills to advance the new education and development agenda, as articulated in the SDGs and the Education 2030 Framework for Action, to inform public policy and provisioning on inclusive, equitable, and quality education and lifelong learning.
The BLDC is a 6-day residential course including interactive sessions designed to tap into the rich and diverse experiences of the participants as valuable resources in the processes of learning. The sessions use a combination of popular education methods, brief lectures, group discussions, and interactions with local groups in the country hosting the BLDC. In this section, we offer you information on past and upcoming BLDCs.
In this section, you will read information on past and upcoming BLDCs, as well as the Tracer Study designed to be a follow-up initiative post the BLDC to highlight how participants have applied the learnings and experiences of the training programme to their work and to the work of their organisations.
It is our pleasure to present this Basic Leadership Development Course Manual – our attempt to share this important ASPBAE experience to a wider audience. To capture the whole learning experience in the form of a Manual was therefore a challenge but we believed the attempt worthwhile, hoping the lessons from our experience contribute even in some small way to the practice of trainers and educators especially within the Asia Pacific region. MORE
Alumni share the contribution of the BLDC to their work
The BLDC Tracer Study aims to track and document the BLDC 2018 and 2019 alumni’s application of their learning from the BLDC, especially with respect to how this supports the SDGs and SDG4. The Tracer Study will enable knowledge sharing on adult education and lifelong learning themes, among the BLDC alumni towards building a Community of Practice of adult educators and education policy advocates in the region.MORE
The BLDC Tracer Study was launched during the 2018 BLDC held in Auckland, New Zealand. The Tracer Study is designed to provide technical and monitoring support for the effective implementation of specific action plans of BLDC participants. Through the exchange of these experiences and their documentation, ASPBAE aims to build a community of practice of adult education practitioners and education policy advocates. In this section, we showcase action plans of BLDC participants and how they have applied the learnings of the course to their work.MORE
