The Report focuses on the world’s 771 million adults living without minimal literacy skills, and points out that while the challenge is predominant in developing regions, significant numbers of young people and adults possess weak literacy skills even in highly developed countries.It maps this global challenge and suggests priorities for scaled-up programmes for youth and adults. It also analyses progress towards universal primary education and gender parity: despite steady advances in some of the world’s poorest countries, the pace of progress remains insufficient. The Report also includes the Education for All Development Index, ranking 123 countries according to their progress towards the six EFA goals set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000. The goals are still achievable, states the Report. However, reaching them will require an immediate acceleration of activity in developing countries and an approximate doubling of the international community’s aid to basic education, even above the levels implied by the G8 pledges made at Gleneagles in July 2005.
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Also recommended:
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2002 Education for All - Is the World on Track?
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2003/4 Gender and Education for All: the Leap to Equality
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2005 The Quality Imperative
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2007 Strong Foundations: Early Childhood Care and Education
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2008 Education for All by 2015 - Will we make it?
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2009 Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters