Adult
and
Lifelong
Learning
FIVDB is renowned for its pioneering and innovative work in the area of adult learning and primary education.
FIVDB is renowned for its pioneering and innovative work in the area of adult learning and primary education. It has received national and international awards for its non-formal functional literacy program and learning materials. The functional literacy materials were initially developed in 1981 following an extensive field research and were radically revised on the basis of field experiences and field findings in 1990. In the eighties and nineties of last century these learning materials were widely used in the country by over 300 organizations and 2.4 million learners have completed the course. FIVDB assisted OXFAM India Trust and Gram Nirman Kendra in India to adapt the materials into Hindi in 1991 and ADRA in Yemen to adapt the materials into Arabic in 1997.