Maintaining the momentum of Education for All is crucial - the third meeting of the High-Level Group of EFA in New Delhi, India (10-12 November 2003), played a significant part in ensuring that the main stakeholders remain fully engaged in this process and together move the EFA agenda forward. Once again, representatives of governments, civil society, aid agencies and international organizations gathered to deliberate on the key issues and central challenges of the EFA movement.

The thematic focus of the meeting was the fifth Dakar goal, namely, the elimination of gender disparity and the realization of gender equality, on the eve of the goal's target date of 2005. The discussions of the meeting were closely related to the findings and analysis contained in the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4, which was devoted to the subject of gender and education for all.