Global Meeting on Post-2015 Takes Place in Dakar, Senegal
This week in Dakar, Senegal, where the Education for All goals were first defined in 2000, education partners are getting together again to discuss the post-2015 agenda. More than 120 education stakeholders from civil society, youth, private sector, foundations, academics, governments and the United Nations will review progress achieved since 2000 and discuss the remaining challenges. They will identify emerging priorities and outline options for ensuring that education remains a priority in the new development framework post 2015.
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Consultations
Regional consultations for the Arab region, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia and the Pacific. A side-event on education in the post-2015 development agenda was organized during the Global Education for All Meeting in Paris in November 2012.
A Global Consultation of Education NGOs during the Sixth Meeting of UNESCO’s Collective Consultation of NGOs on EFA–CCNGO/EFA.
A consultation with representatives from the private sector and from donor agencies was facilitated by the Brookings Institution.
A Global Online Consultation to engage youth and children, experts, academics, member states, donors, development partners and NGOs that covered four themes.
Since late 2012, a range of consultations (see side box) took place and fed into the Dakar meeting. A global online forum just ended. It covered 4 themes in 4 months
- Equitable access to education
- Quality of learning
- Global citizenship, jobs & skills
- Governance & financing of education
The key findings from the global forum emphasize the progress so far and the remaining challenges to give every child, everywhere a quality education (see links to full reports below). Forum participants highlighted:
- Education plays a fundamental role in development.
- Education equality must mean equal opportunities for all children: girls and boys, the disabled, children from ethnic minorities, the poor and marginalized children.
- On learning, participants wanted to see the global agenda move beyond literacy and numeracy. They want children to learn to be creative, able to problem-solve and have critical life skills. They want them to be active citizen, able to get jobs.
- On teachers, governments were called upon to invest in pre-service and in-service training for teachers.
Full summaries of the key findings from the e-discussion
Summary Report of e-Discussion One: Equitable Access to Education
ENGLISH | FRENCH
Summary Report of e-Discussion Two: Quality of Learning
ENGLISH | FRENCH
Summary Report of e-Discussion Three: Global Citizenship, Jobs & Skills
ENGLISH
Summary Report of e-Discussion Four: Governance & Financing of Education
ENGLISH | FRENCH
Read more about the Global Meeting and find the program and background materials http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/317535
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