UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize

UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize' was named after Russian politician of the Soviet era Nadezhda K. Krupskaya. The prize was sponsored by the government of the Soviet Union in the period 1970-1992. The prize was offered in UNESCO along with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran literacy prize which was offered until the Iranian revolution of 1979.

List of Winners and Honourable Mentions

Year	Winner	Honourable Mention	Ref
1970	Language and Literature Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian People's Republic	Mobile rural schools, Mexico Amir Birdjandi, Iran Anna Lorenzetto, President of the National Union for the Struggle against Illiteracy, Italy National Adult Literacy and Education Services, People's Republic of the Congo Union of Sudanese Women, Sudan	[1]
1971	Zambia Adult Literacy Programme, Zambia	Angolan Women's Organization, Angola Ministry of Education and Fine Arts, Dominican Republic Literacy Section of the State of Kuwait	[1]
1972	Education Corps Iran	The Technical Workers' Collective, Department of Adult Education. Cuba Kibaru (The News), Mali The National Board of Primary Education and Teacher Training, Uruguay Mr. Alfa Sow, Society of African Culture	[1]
1973	Literacy Project, West Lake Region, Tanzania	Adult and Community Education Division, Philippines The Anti-illiteracy Programme by Radio, Egypt Ye Kotebe Berhane Amin Youth Association, Ethiopia National Federation of Indian Women, India	[1]
1974	Shyorongi Community Development Centre, (CEDECOS), Rwanda	National Directorate of Adult Education, Argentina Mr. J. P. Crossenbacher (expert from the Swiss Technical Co-operation Programme, proposed by Dahomey) Bengal Social Service League, India Mr. Mohammad Bahman Beighi, Iran	[1] [2]
1975	Abdirizak Mohamoud Abukar, Somali Democratic Republic	Directorate of Literacy and Lifelong Education, People's Republic of the Congo Kerala Granthasala Sangham (Libraries Association of the State of Kerala), India Institution for Workers' Education, Iraq National Service for Literacy, Togo	[1] [3]
1976	Literacy Department of the Ministry of Ecuation and Culture, Syrian Arab Republic	Directorate of Non-formal (Adult) Education, India Jamaica Movement for the Advancement of Literacy (JAMAL) Somali Women's Organization, nominated by the Women's International Democratic Federation Zambia Association of Literacy Clubs	[1] [4]
1977	award deferred, later awarded in 1979	Mr. Bernard Sero Gauthier, People's Republic of Benin Telimele Regional Centre for Improving the Status of Women, Guinea Seva Mandir (for the development of Adult Education), Udaipur, India General Union of Women of Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, nominated by the Women's International Democratic Foundation	[5] [6]
1978	The Commune of Cambinh, Pilot Literacy and Complementary Education Unit, submitted by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	The Mutual Aid and Development Centre, Burundi Andhra Mahila Sabha, Hyderabad, India The Syrian Federation of Women	[7]
1979	The Supreme Council of the National Campaign for Compulsory Literacy of Iraq, Iraq The Popular Union of Peruvian Women, Peru	Directorate of Literacy and the Rural Press, Benin Functional Literacy Programme, Adult Education Division, Department of Non-formal Education in Thailand, Thailand The Commune of Cat Hanh, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	[6]
1980	Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign, Nicaragua	National Literacy Centre of Angola, Angola	[8]
1981	Federation of Cuban Women, Cuba	Research Centre for Adult Education of the People's Republic of the Congo, People's Republic of the Congo Mr. Nail Mahmood al-Saidi, Iraq	[9]
1982	Directorate of Non-Formal and Adult Education of Tamil Nadu, India	All Ethiopian Peasants Association, Ethiopia Directorate of Adult Education, United Republic of Tanzania	[10]
1983		Vương Kiêm Toàn, Director of Common People Learning Bureau (Nha bình dân học vụ), SR Viet Nam	[11]
1984	Cuban National Association of the Blind, Cuba	Directorate of Adult Education of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India Directorate of Popular Education and Literacy, Madagascar	[12]
1985	Xiengkho District, Lao People's Democratic Republic	Brother Jean-Baptiste Bunkungu, Burkina Faso Literacy Programme for Adults, Maharashtra, India	[13]
1986	Wu Lien County, Shandong Province, China	Democratic Women's Organization of Afghanistan, Afghanistan Carlos Fonseca Task Force, Nicaragua Miss Ghada Raghib al-Jabi, Syria	[14]
1987	Mrs Eriyah, Indonesia
1988	National Literacy Centre, Angola	Educar Foundation Basic Education Project, Baixada Fluminense, Brazil Professor Ramlal Parikh, India (submitted by the Association for World Education) The Executive Committee for the Eradication of Illiteracy and Complementary Education, Binh Minh District, Cuu Long Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam	[15]

See also

• UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, China
• UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, South Korea
• Noma Literacy Prize

References

1. Winners of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Priza and the Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, UNESCO
2. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prize, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, 1974, UNESCO
3. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prize, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, 1975, UNESCO
4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prize, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, 1976, UNESCO
5. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prize, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, 1977, UNESCO
6. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize and the International Reading Association Literacy Award, 1979, UNESCO
7. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prize, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, 1978, UNESCO
8. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award and Noma Prize, 1980, UNESCO
9. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award and Noma Prize, 1981, UNESCO
10. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award, Noma Prize and Iraq Literacy Prize, 1982, UNESCO
11. Chiến sĩ 'diệt giặc dốt' được nhận bằng khen của UNESCO
12. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award, 1984, UNESCO
13. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award, Noma Prize and Iraq Literacy Prize, 1985, UNESCO
14. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award, Noma Prize and Iraq Literacy Prize, 1986, UNESCO
15. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize, International Reading Association Literacy Award, Noma Prize and Iraq Literacy Prize, 1988, UNESCO