EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010
Education for All (EFA) is focused on the provision of quality basic education to all children, young persons and adults. The World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, (April 2000) formulated six education goals to address the most essential learning needs of children, young persons and adults. That same year, in September 2000, the Member States of the United Nations adopted the Millennium Declaration in which they promised that by 2015, “children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that girls and boys will have equal access to all levels of education.”
Much has been achieved in the past ten years and many countries have made great progress towards reaching universal primary education. Yet the global financial and economic crisis threatens to stop or even undo much of that progress. With 72 million children not in school, education is at risk and “the crisis could create a lost generation of children in the world’s poorest countries, whose life chances will have been jeopardized by a failure to protect their right to education.”
The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized documents both the progress made and the challenges ahead in five comprehensive chapters:
Chapter 1 - Education at risk: the impact of the financial crisis
Chapter 2 - Progress towards the EFA goals
Chapter 3 - Reaching the marginalized
Chapter 4 - The aid compact: falling short of commitments
Chapter 5 - Rising to the EFA challenge
The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010 Summary is a readable, compelling document. Separate Regional Overviews bring the EFA Report to life and invite the reader to explore local realities, challenges and examples of solutions that work.
Cecile Meijer, rscj
NGO Office, July 2010