The GMR Team is holding a consultation on the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA-GMR) until 28 February 2010.
The iShares EAFE exchange-traded fund (amex: EFA - news - people ), for example, tracks the performance of 829 companies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.35%.
As part of the National Literacy Strategy, whose activities focus particularly on women, the DPI implemented a pilot programme with UNESCO support through the LIFE initiative and financial support from the UNESCO Capacity Development for Education for All programme (Cap-EFA Morocco 2006-2008).
The main topics and issues discussed in the Forum were about the EFA Post-2015 agenda, the road map towards 2015, the revised global EFA coordination mechanisms and a regional overview on EFA monitoring mechanisms.
This sixth meeting of the EFA High-Level Group, which has met annually since the Dakar Forum, paid special attention to the goal of expanding early childhood care and education (ECCE).
Speaking at the Ninth High-Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA) in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Ms Bokova lauded the accomplishments of the Education For All (EFA) campaign - including the fact that in Africa 42 million more children are enrolled in primary school this year than in 2000 - but said that the economic recession had caused some governments to cut back on education funding.
It was recommended the set up of regional and sub-regional multi-stakeholder EFA coordination committees, aligned with the continental and regional education inter-governmental structures of the Africa Union and Regional Economic Communities (RECs).
Whether big or small, the NGOs are expected to urge governments, the private sector, UNESCO and donors to overcome the remaining obstacles to achieving the EFA goals by 2015, as well as producing a collective vision for a post-2015 EFA agenda.
This year, the High-Level Group on EFA (HLG) will meet at the midpoint along that time-line.
The EFA regional coordination meeting for sub-Saharan Africa will begin with the launch of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012 which this year focuses on Youth and Skills: Putting education to work.
The recent relative strength of the financial sector has helped EFA gain 9% year-to-date, versus 6% for OIDCX and 10.6% for OIGAX.
Its role is to generate political momentum and mobilize financial, technical and political support towards achieving the EFA goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
At the regional EFA Coordination Meetings in mid-October in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) they spoke for the most marginalized populations or specific groups such as youth, girls, demobilized soldiers.
The event, which will be held at UN Headquarters in New York, aims to promote interactive dialogue on this important issue. using an evidence-based approach that shows public-private partnerships are integral components to achieving international development goals, including the six Education for All (EFA) goals and the two education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Government of Thailand will host the next meeting of the High-Level Group on EFA in 2011.
The report paints a disturbing picture of the prospect of achieving EFA by 2015 but Mr Al-Samarrai makes no excuse for the stark message.
Deliberations in the forthcoming HLG meeting in Dakar, Senegal (11-13 December 2007) will be informed by this new Report and also by the main discussion points on EFA policy, strategy and priority-setting prepared by the Working Group.
Regional meetings to analyse the relevant themes integrated into established EFA or other education meetings and post-2015 platforms and fora.
Furthermore, national policy documents have been recently prepared, highlighting a series of obstacles hindering progress towards EFA goals achievement, demonstrating the need for evidence-based policy formulation and better informed decision-making.
Its role is to generate political momentum and mobilize financial, technical and political support towards the achievement of the EFA goals initiated ten years ago and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Each month featured a sub-challenge focusing on one of the six EFA goals.
The Report, Education for All, highlighted a definitive assessment of overall achievements and challenges from 2000-2015, by analyzing each of the six EFA goals agreed by governments in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000.
Speaking at the Ninth High-Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA) in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Irina Bokova called on governments and donors to redouble their efforts to protect educational gains made over the past decade that are under threat from the global economic downturn.
The EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge winners come from China, India (two prize-winners), Kenya, Switzerland, and the United States.
In the three-day meeting Ministers and high-level representatives reviewed the progress towards the achievement of EFA over the last two decades and identified new and emerging challenges for the post 2015 agenda.
The main expected outcomes of the HLG in Dakar are key policy recommendations for adoption and implementations by policy-makers in order to accelerate progress towards achieving the EFA and other related development goals.
Participants suggested that a set of some 5-6 core indicators should be agreed upon and used by all EFA partners, although the Group noted that this may only provide a partial picture of education systems.
Councils, such as Northumberland, which has three schools in the first wave of the programme, have been warned by the EFA that the lack of private finance has resulted in the later start date - still to be set.
He specifically highlighted the encouraging progress in civil society involvement and the Fast-Track initiative, which will be one of the pillars of the EFA movement.
Inaugurating the Inter-provincial Forum on Early Childhood Education (ECE) under the framework of EFA Week 2012, jointly organized by UNESCO, UNICEF and Aga Khan Foundation in Islamabad.
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