Adult education for marginalized women

"<< Background >>Adult education faces challenges in reaching out to marginalized women and victims of gender-based violence (GBVH). Traditional practices, lack of self-confidence, and low literacy skills contribute to low inclusion. This is reflected in low participation and lack of understanding of the importance of adult education for these women. To address this, a specific approach is needed to attract marginalized women to adult education and learning, while also ensuring staff remain involved as learners. Research shows that adult education often consists of a linear, progressive transfer of knowledge and ideology, which may not be internalized by marginalized women. To address this issue, the project partners incorporated experiences from other projects and decided to create a tool to identify learning needs for marginalized women. This approach strengthens adult education centers' position and promotes forward-looking integration of the target group in learning processes.<< Objectives >>The goal of our project was to improve the adult education staff's skills in reaching and inclusion of marginalized women and women victims of GBVH in adult education processes, or more specifically:- to identify clear set of skills, methods and approaches;- to teach 15 adult education staff in identifying the learning needs;- to include marginalized women and women victims of GBVH in the practical learning process of adult education staff;- to strengthen the position of the organizations as forward-looking providers in adult education.<< Implementation >>The activities implemented during the project included:1. Project Management2. Transnational Meeting for Definition of Methodology for Approach to Marginalized Women and Women Victims of GBVH as Learners.3. Research and training - On-site Learning by Doing: Implementation of the Designed Tool on the Field.4. Transnational Meeting and Open Day for Dissemination.<< Results >>The concrete output of the project is the document ""Gidelines, tools and methodology on how to approach socially vulnerable women to Adult Education"". The study identifies awareness needs for adult education and learning needs, focusing on assessors' capacities and tools. Lessons learned include successful assessment of vulnerable women, essentials for adult education staff, and lessons linked to adult education. Survey findings include vulnerable women, digital skills, and knowledge levels for increasing green skills among women. Questionaries were used for field experiences. The full document is available on this link on English, Macedonian and Serbian: https://bit.ly/3VGnLAB"