The Bangkok Priorities for Action on First Language-based Multilingual Education

The Bangkok Priorities for Action on First Language-based Multilingual Education calls for urgent action to be taken by governments and all education stakeholders in the region to advance ‘first language-based multilingual education policies, programmes and practices to accelerate learning, strengthen education systems and address the learning crisis’ through the employment of learner’s first languages in the region’s school systems and classrooms in the post COVID-19 era and beyond. 

It was endorsed at the High-level Policy Forum on Multilingual Education, which brought together over 30 high-senior government officials from 20 Asia-Pacific countries* during the 7th International Conference on Language and Learning, hosted by UNESCO, UNICEF, and partners, in Bangkok, from 4 to 6 October 2023.

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^{*Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam.}