Education for all

 

The "Education for All" programme was initiated at the 1990 World Conference on Education for All organized in Jomtien, Thailand. Since then, governments, members of civil society, as well as bilateral and multilateral donor agencies and the media have made the access to basic education for all among their priorities. The participants' main aim was to enable all people of all ages to "benefit from educational opportunities designed to meet their basic learning needs". The World Declaration on Education for All thus defined a brand new direction for education systems, urging for the vanishing of rigid and prescriptive methods into more flexible approaches. From now on, education should be adaptable and in total adequacy to the needs, culture and means of the learners.

The 1996 Amman Conference (Jordan) served as a half-way check where the outcome was deemed as quite positive. The Education for All decade then culminated at the World Education Forum (26-28 April 2000, Dakar, Senegal) where the Dakar Framework for Action Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments was adopted. This document commits governments to achieve quality basic education for all by 2015, with particular emphasis on girls' schooling and a pledge from donor countries and institutions such that "no country seriously committed to basic education will be thwarted in the achievement of this goal by lack of resources.

Each year UNESCO releases a monitoring report on the programme concerning a specific issue. That report has been available on line on the UNESCO website since 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REPORT 2003-04 "Gender and Education for all, the leap to equality"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rapport intégral (en anglais)