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EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
Duration: 4'54"

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Inequality is the biggest barrier to education worldwide, affecting millions of children. Children from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds are missing out on education.

01 :00 :00 :00 Kenya
01 :00 :03 :17 South Africa
01 :00 :05 :24 Bangladesh
01 :00 :11 :01 Turkey
01 :00 :17 :04 Bolivia
01 :00 :21 :15 India
01 :00 :35 :05 Peru
01 :00 :39 :01 Brazil
01 :00 :43 :08 Nepal
01 :00 :47 :02 Turkey


Most of the world’s 75 million out of school children come from poor families

01 :00 :50 :01 South Africa
01 :00 :52 :17 Kenya
01 :00 :55 :20 India
01 :00 :59 :22 Turkey
01 :01 :02 :02 Kenya
01 :01 :05 :15 Kenya Rural area

In many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South and West Asia and the Arab States, millions of girls are still not treated equally in regards to education

01 :01 :08 :24 Ethiopia
01 :01 :11 :22 Bangladesh
01 :01 :14 :03 Nepal
01 :01 :23 :15 Egypt
01 :01 :23 :15 Turkey

01 :01 :33 :13 Ethiopia
01 :01 :37 :24 Afghanistan

School systems in many countries are chronically under-financed and under-resourced, failure of school systems to deliver good quality education

01 :01 :41 :08 Malawi, classes surcharges
01 :01 :48 :13 Afghanistan, classroom
01 :01 :55 :07 Guatemala, classroom in rural area
01 :02 :04 :01 Egypt
01 :01 :48 :13 Afghanistan

There are also encouraging example and success stories.

01 :02 :13 :12 Ethiopia, the number of out of school children has decreased by about 3 million since 1999 due to increased public spending on education
01 :02 :31 :08 Mauritania
01 :02 :46 :01 Bangladesh – scholarship programmes have increase the enrolment of girls and low caste children disadvantaged - gender parity reached in primary and secondary education
01 :02 :50 :20 Kenya - Educational project
01 :02 :59 :16 Honduras – Educational project
01 :03 :06 :00 Cambodia – Educational project
01 :03 :13 :04 Ethiopia – Increase investments in education
01 :03 :20 :12 France - classroom
01 :03 :26 :01 United Kingdom - classroom
01 :03 :43 :07 Soundbite : Kevin Watkins, Director of EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
01 :04 :47 :00 Bangladesh
01 :04 :54 :00 End

Publication Date 25 Nov 2008
Europe and North America Latin America and the Caribbean Africa Arab States Asia Pacific