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Education for All (EFA)
Progress in achieving EFA accelerated and capacities built
UNESCO leads the global Education for All (EFA) movement, aiming to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015. The EFA goals are to
- (1) Expand early childhood care and education;
- (2) Provide free and compulsory primary education for all;
- (3) Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults;
- (4) Increase adult literacy by 50%;
- (5) Achieve gender parity by 2002, gender equality by 2010 and
- (6) Improve the quality of education.
With regard to EFA goal number 4 on Literacy, today one in five adults is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women while 75 million children are out of school. UNESCO’s literacy programmes aim to create a literate world and promote literacy for all.
News
12 Jul 2012 Global Action Week (GAW) on Education For All (EFA) celebration in Lesotho 2012 UNESCO Office Windhoek The Global Action Week (GAW) on Education for All (EFA) Week is a major annual event commemorated in the ten districts of Lesotho since 2002, and led by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). For this year, in line with the internationally designated theme: “Rights from the Start! Early Childhood Care and Education NOW”, the Department of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), together with the major stakeholders, organized the activities of the GAW which started on 13 May and ended on the 18 May 2012. More
06 Jun 2012 Call for nominations – UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2012 UNESCO Initially established in 1967, these Prizes are currently sponsored by the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, and they are composed of the two UNESCO Confucius Prizes for Literacy and the two UNESCO King-Sejong Literacy Prizes. They are awarded each year to individuals, governments and non-governmental organizations in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the promotion of literacy, and their meritorious efforts in this regard. More
08 Feb 2012 GMR 2012 - Art Contest UNESCO Youth, skills and work – What skills do you need to create a better future? More
