• The 7th meeting of the Working Group on EFA
  (19 - 21 July 2006)
  
  
  
• Agenda (English) (French)
  
  
• List of Participants
  
  
• Opening session: DG Speech
  
  
• Working documents
  
  Session 1 - Abolition of School Fees: Implications for Education Sector Reform and Resource Mobilization
  
  

  Contributions

  - Mobilising resources to support countries that commit to achieving the MDGs and school fee abolition (DFID)
  
  - Coping with Rapid Expasion within wiyhin the Framework of SFA Policy – Kenya 's Experience by George Godia
  
  Session 2 - Reaching the EFA Goals: Overcoming Child Labour to achieve EFA - Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All Terms of Reference ( June 2006)
  
  Contributions
  - La lutte contre le travail des enfants comme une stratégie pour atteindre l’éducation pour tous (Maroc )
  
  - “Reaching the EFA Goals: Overcoming Child Labour to achieve EFA” (Turkey)
  
  Session 3 - Improving Education Service Delivery in Fragile States: Reducing Fragility and Adopting Sustainable Approaches
  
  Contributions
  - Approaches to improving the delivery of educational services in difficult environments where both capacity and will are weak by Pauline Rose
  

  
  

  - Les Services Educatifs dans les Etats Fragiles : La situation de la République Démocratique du Congo by Pierre Gambembo

  Session 4 - Response to HIV and AIDS: Role of Education in Prevention and Mitigation
  
  Contributions
  - HIV/AIDS in the Education Sector in Cambodia
  
  - Towards a Comprehensive Education Sector Response to HIV and AIDS
  
  - HIV and Caribbean Education, by David Plummer
  

  The HIV and AIDS Pandemic: A Comprehensive Educational Approach to Prevention, Care and Support at School Level: A Case for Eastern and Southern Africa (Lesotho)
  
  Session 5 - Strategies for operationalizing the EFA Global Action Plan
  
  Contributions
  - Strategies for Making the EFA Global Action Plan Operational: The Role of UNFPA by Arletty Pine
  
  

  - Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All Comments and Recommendations on the Global Action Plan
  
  - Summary Comments by UNICEF on the EFA Global Action Plan
  
  
• More Presentations

  
  
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• The 6th meeting of the Working Group on EFA
  (19 - 21 July 2005)
  
  
  
• Agenda (English)
  
  
• List of Participants (English)
  
  
• Session on Literacy and Empowerment: Background and issues paper
  
  
• Session on Education for Rural People to achieve EFA and the MDGs: Background paper
  
  
• Session on Moving towards a Joint Action Plan for achieving EFA by 2015: Background Paper
  
  
  
  
• Side Meetings
  
  15 -16 July
  UN Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Global Advisory Committee Meeting
  Convened by UNICEF
  UNESCO Paris
  
  18 July
  Meeting of UNGEI Advisory Board members and Regional Representatives
  Convened by UNICEF
  
  
  Fast-Track Initiative Steering Committee
  Convened by the World Bank
  Website
  
  
  18 - 21
  Collective Consultation of NGOs of Education for All
  Convened by UNESCO
  Contact: Sabine Detzel,
  E-mail: s.detzel@unesco.org
  
  
  21 - 22
  Meeting on UNESCO's new literacy programme, LIFE
  Contact Shigeru Aoyagi,
  Email: S.Aoyagi@unesco.org
  
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• The 5th meeting of the Working Group on EFA
  (20 - 21 July 2004)
  
  
  
• Final Report ( English) [PDF]
  
• Agenda (English)
  
  
• List of participants (English)
  
  
• Welcome address by UNESCO's Director-General
  
  
• Meeting Presentations
  
  
• EFA Bulletin on the Meeting >> Spanish
  
  
  
  
  More convergence and integration between current global initiatives was the main message from the meeting of the 5th Working Group on EFA that closed in UNESCO on 21 July. These initiatives include Education for All, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the Fast-Track Initiative and the UN Girls� Education Initiative. The two-day meeting considered ways of improving the timeliness and quality of statistics, enhancing external funding for EFA and particularly the Fast-Track Initiative, strengthening civil society engagement and promoting partnerships with the private sector on EFA. It also examined the Interim Report on the MDG on achieving Universal Primary Education.
  
  
  • More timely educational data
  • Unlocking the FTI potential
  • Civil society and EFA: What next?
  • Tapping the private sector
  • On the way to UPE
  • From Paris to Brasilia
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• The Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on EFA
  ( 22 to 23 July 2003 )
  
  
  
• Final Report ( English) ( French) [PDF]
  
  
• Note on the Working Group on EFA (English)
  
  
• Agenda (English)
  
  
• List of participants (English)
  
  
• Background paper "EFA Flagships: multi-partner support mechanisms to implement the Dakar Framework for Action" (English)
  
  
• Welcome address by UNESCO's Director-General
  
  
• Meeting Presentations
  
  
• Special issues of UNESCO's electronic news bulletin on education:
  • 18 July 2003
  • 24 July 2003

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• Third meeting of the Working Group on EFA
  (22-23 July 2002)
  
  
  
• Mandate and composition (English) [PDF]
  
  
• Agenda (English) (French) [PDF]
  
  
• List of participants (English)
  
  
• Terms of reference for country panel presentations ( English) ( French)
  
  
• Terms of reference for background information papers (English) (French)
  
  
• Welcome address by UNESCO's Director-General [PDF]
  
  
• Special issues of UNESCO's electronic news bulletin on education:
  • 22 July 2002
  • 23 July 2002
    
    
• Press Release ( French) ( Spanish)
  
  
• Final Report [HTML]
  
  ( English) ( French)[PDF]
  
  
• Meeting Presentations
  

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