How do you cultivate sustainable literacy organizations that promote development? This is a central question for literacy and development practitioners. The IfE literacy program of Togo models the successful development of one such organization, and the productive secondary programs that came into being as a result.

Reeder describes the context and history of the development of the IfE literacy associations, and uses social representation theory from French academia to explore how cultural representations of leadership and of literacy contributed to the strength of leadership...