UNESCO Youth, Media & Information Literacy Engagements

UNESCO partnered with Antigua and Barbuda's Ministry of Education to deliver a series of Youth, Media and Information Literacy engagements in March and April 2024, responding to small Caribbean island states' growing exposure to online misinformation and gaps in accessible digital and media education for students with disabilities.

Sessions covered media and information literacy, misinformation, disinformation and online hate speech, digital mental-health management, the legal rights of youth online, and digital media communication. A dedicated strand trained special-education teachers, including educators at the School for the Deaf, on using Google Classroom and other digital tools to make lessons more inclusive for students with disabilities.

UNESCO's published report on the engagements records that 338 stakeholders were reached, including representatives of 46 youth organisations and 3 disability organisations.

The model was extended regionally in June 2026 through a hybrid Media Information Literacy training hosted by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, bringing together special-education teachers from Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada. The published evidence so far consists of participation counts rather than an independent evaluation of literacy gains or classroom outcomes, so impact evidence remains preliminary.