A/71/358 inhabitants, all throughout life, facilitating continuing education. In Finland, the Government instituted a decree in 2009, creating the Council for Lifelong Learning, an expert body operating within the Ministry of Education to foster cooperation between the world of education and work and to further improve the conditions for lifelong learning and adult education. 23 C. Lifelong learning, social policies and education strategies 59. Lifelong learning figures in the education plans and strategies of several countries, for example the strategy for lifelong learning of Denmark, 24 adopted in 2007, which is aimed at promoting lifelong learning in all parts of society and in all areas in which the knowledge, skills and competences of people are developed and put to use. 25 In Jamaica, the national development plan, Vision 2030 Jamaica, is aimed at empowering individuals “to learn for life��� so as to be creative and productive. 26 60. The National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development of Australia 27 introduced a national training entitlement for government -subsidized training to at least the Certificate III qualification, with a view to ensuring that working -age Australians without qualifications can obtain the skills that they need to work in higher-skilled jobs. 61. Developing continuing education and building a lifelong education and training system that benefits all people, with open sharing of education resources, is the objective of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) of China. 28 A national plan for modernizing the national education system is aimed at building a basic framework for lifelong education, so that everyone can be taught what they want to learn, excel at what they learn, and put what they have learned to use. 29 62. The Special Rapporteur considers it important for developing countries to take steps with a view to developing laws and education policies that embody the concept of lifelong learning. Public authorities must al so “take the lead in developing and implementing lifelong learning strategies ”19 grounded in such a legal and policy framework. __________________ 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 14/26 UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Global Report on Adult Learning and Education: Rethinking Literacy (Hamburg, 2013), p. 46. Available from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/ 0022/002224/222407E.pdf. Jan Reitz Jørgensen, ed., Denmark’s Strategy for Lifelong Learning: Education and Lifelong Skills Upgrading for All (Denmark, Danish Ministry of Education, 2007). Available from http://pub.uvm.dk/2007/lifelonglearning/lifelong_learning.pdf. Ibid., p. 8. Planning Institute of Jamaica, Vision 2030 Jamaica: National Development Plan (Kingston, 2009), pp. 57-58. Available from www.vision2030.gov.jm/National-Development-Plan. See www.federalfinancialrelations.gov.au/content/npa/skills/national -partnership/skillsreform_NA.pdf. See www.china-un.org/eng/zt/China123456/. See http://uil.unesco.org/fileadmin/keydocuments/LifelongLearning/en/china -2010-abstract-lllstrategy.pdf. 16-14910