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EDUCATION Primary Education
  THEMES
 
REFORM
 
 
 
ACCESS AND EQUITY
 
 
 
QUALITY AND RELEVANCE
 
 
 

  SPECIAL FOCUS
 
 

  REGIONS and COUNTRIES
Africa | Arab States | Asia and Pacific | Europe and North America | Latin America



UNESCO’s strategy unifies its four main programme areas with a common purpose built on three main strategic thrusts: (a) developing and promoting universal principles and norms based on shared values; (b) promoting pluralism through recognition and safeguarding of diversity, together with the observance of human rights; and (c) promoting empowerment and participation in the emerging knowledge society through equitable access, capacity-building and knowledge sharing.
There are three objectives with regards to education:

Promote education as a fundamental right in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

- Build partnerships for Education For All (EFA)

- Support policy reform in favour of EFA
Advance the right to education, with an emphasis on girls

- Empower the poor and reach the un-reached through education (ensuring access to education, expanding non-formal education and supporting education needs of countries in crisis situations)

Improve the quality of education through the diversification of contents and methods and the promotion of universally shared values

- Promote universally shared values through education
- Improve and diversify the contents and methods of education
- Promote science and technology education for all
- Develop effective strategies of preventive education

Promote experimentation, innovation and the diffusion and sharing of information and best practice, as well as policy dialogue in education

- Identify new trends of educational development and promoting policy dialogue
- Renew education systems
- Harness information and communication technologies (ICTs) for education
  UNESCO & Primary Education
Strategy
Programme Areas

  International commitments
The right to education
Education for All
Millenium Development Goals
Fast Track Initiative
UN Decades
Campaigns & Projects

  Resources
Facts and figures
EFA FLAGSHIPS
Publications
Selected Websites

  Features
Joint Programme for the Promotion of Basic Education for All Malagasy Children in Madagascar
Learning to read and write in a month!