Chapter 1. The enduring relevance of Education for All [PDF – 705 KB] 

This edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report marks the midway point in an ambitious international movement to expand learning opportunities for every child, youth and adult by 2015. This introductory chapter examines the many developments occurring within education since 2000, and reflects on how these and other changes outside education have affected the Education for All vision.

Chapter 2. The six goals: how far have we come? [PDF – 4.96 MB] 

The EFA movement has sought to satisfy basic learning needs through public policies aimed at providing universal access to primary education of good quality and developing new learning opportunities for young children as well as for youth and adults. Today, midway between the World Education Forum held in Dakar in 2000 and the target date of 2015, where do we stand?

Chapter 3. Countries on the move [PDF – 2 MB] 

Chapter 2 showed a great deal of progress since 2000 in meeting basic learning needs but also significant variation in achievement across countries. This chapter dicusses the ways governments have responded to the goals and strategies in the Dakar Framework.

Chapter 4. Progress in financing Education for All [PDF – 1.11 MB] 

This chapter reviews the extent to which the components of the 2000 Dakar Framework for Action that deal with the financing of the Education for All agenda and goals are being applied by governments and donor agencies.

Chapter 5. The way forward [PDF – 525 KB] 

As we move beyond the midway point from Dakar to 2015, key questions arise. How can we maintain the recent positive primary school enrolment and
completion trends? What about the slower progress towards achieving the goals for early childhood, youth and adults, and quality education for all? What about literacy, the most neglected of the EFA goals? This concluding chapter addresses these and other questions.