This chapter provides an assessment of global progress towards achieving the six EFA goals. It uses the most recent data on education systems for 2000, updating last year’s analysis and extending it in important respects.
Reflecting the report’s theme, the analysis gives particular attention to the gender goals and how they affect the implementation of all Dakar’s educational aims. Gender parity at primary and secondary levels is an objective for 2005, and equality throughout all education is to be achieved over the following decade. So the discussion of each of the goals adopts a gender focus wherever the data allow.
The chapter is in seven sections. After a look at trends in ECCE, three sections assess progress towards higher enrolments, quality and gender parity at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. Discussion of life skills and literacy programmes is then followed by some recent evidence on trends in educational quality. The final section attempts to compare the overall progress being made by different nations and regions. It focuses on how far the goals for gender parity are within reach for 2005, and introduces a new EFA Development Index to give a more aggregated comparator of national progress towards the education targets.
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This chapter provides an assessment of global progress towards achieving the six EFA goals. It uses the most recent data on education systems for 2000, updating last year’s analysis and extending it in important respects. 
