Useful Links

International organisations promoting reading and literacy

• UNESCO Literacy Portal
• IBBY
• International Literacy Association

National organisations promoting reading and literacy

• The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, US and South Africa, National Library of South Africa
• National Literacy Trust, UK

Reading and Literacy Surveys

• Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) 2011
• Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America
• OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• Literacy for Life – Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006 – UNESCO

Literacy Prizes and Awards

• UNESCO Literacy Prizes
• IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

Reading Promotion and Literacy projects, programmes and portals

• "Selection of Effective Adult Literacy and Numeracy programmes", UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning
• Wikireadia
• Libraries, Literacy and Development – links to library and literacy projects in developing countries, especially Africa
• The Partnership for Reading: Bringing Scientific Evidence to Learning (US)
• Leer en familia – Un programa de Fundalectura, Colombia
• IRA International Outreach – lots of information on international literacy
• IRA World Congress on Reading
• EU Read – Task Force for Reading and Reading Promotion
• Remote Access: Distant Libraries of the World
• Malaysia: Report of the reading month carnival
• United Nations Literacy Decade 20o3-2012
• National book festival, US
• Plan Iberamericano de lectura
• enCompass – the Global Book Club – the online worldwide reading group

For other publications and papers on reading promotion and literacy, see our Other Publications webpage.