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EFA Background Documents
The World Conference on Education for All, Jomtien, Thailand March 5-9, 1990
In 1990, delegates from 155 countries, as well as representatives from some 150 organizations agreed at the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand (5-9 March 1990) to universalize primary education and massively reduce illiteracy before the end of the decade.
Mid-Decade Meeting on EFA, Amman, Jordan, 16-19 June 1996
Six years after the Jomtien Conference, the Mid-Decade Meeting of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All, in Amman, Jordan (16-19 June 1996) brought together some 250 decision-makers from 73 countries, including ministers of education, and multilateral, and bilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations. Their aim: to assess the advances made since the Jomtien Conference.
World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000
The World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal, April 2000) was the first and most important event in education at the dawn of the new century. By adopting the Dakar Framework for Action, the 1,100 participants of the Forum reaffirmed their commitment to achieving Education for All by the year 2015.
EFA Global Thematic Review of Early Childhood Care and Development: Summary and Update
Robert G. Myers; Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, January 1999.
EFA 2000 Assessment Thematic Studies: Early Childhood Care and Development: Full Report
Robert G. Myers; Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, April 2000 Dakar, Senegal. Co-ordinated by the United Nations Children's Fund.
This review of early childhood care and development (ECCD) was commissioned as a contribution to the Year 2000 Assessment of Education for All (EFA). The Assessment aims to describe and examine global and national changes that have occurred in basic education and learning since the World Conference on Education for All was held in Jomtien, Thailand in March 1990.
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