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Education for All Global Monitoring Report
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Chapter 3
Country efforts:
increasing
momentum
Progress towards the EFA goals is steady, but too slow
in terms of the target dates, especially in sub-Saharan
Africa, South and West Asia, and the Arab States.
The first time-bound goal, gender parity in primary
and secondary school by 2005, has already been missed.
Accelerating the pace of change sufficiently to meet
the goals for 2015 requires more attention to planning,
strategies, resources and key policy issues in many
countries. This chapter examines selected elements
from a sampling of national EFA plans, considers public
financing and household costs (with updated information
on fees at the primary level) and continues the 2005
Report's attention to teachers, focusing particularly on
projected needs. It stresses the necessity of maintaining
momentum towards gender parity, despite the
disappointment of the missed goal, and the growing
urgency of other crucial issues: inclusion, education in
difficult country circumstances, response to the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, and assuring students’ health and safety.
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