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Education For All - The Dakar Goals
August 18, 2003

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.  You wait and watch and work; you don't give up." - Anne Lamott


EDUCATION FOR ALL -- THE DAKAR GOALS

In April 2000, UNESCO convened world education leaders for the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal.  Out of this historic meeting emerged the "Education for All" campaign with the following six goals.  UNESCO closely monitors nations on progress toward achieving these goals.

1.  Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children;

2.  Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality;

3.  Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programmes;

4.  Achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults;

5.  Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality;

6.  Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.

For a update on the progress of the Education For All campaign, go to http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/index.shtml.



UNESCO is a member of the World Forum Alliance, helping to plan and promote the World Forum on Early Care and Education.  For more information on UNESCO and the World Forum Alliance, go to http://www.ccie.com/ECEorgs/index.php.

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