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The End of Decade Notes
At the close of the 2000s, the Asia-Pacific region reviewed regional and national progress toward
the EFA goals and targets. The resulting Asia-Pacific End of Decade Notes on Education for All take
stock of the progress, persisting issues and remaining challenges in achieving each EFA goal.
The End of Decade Notes, or EDNs, highlight examples of innovative policy reforms and strategies,
particularly those aimed at reducing disparities in access to and quality of education. They also
emphasize the policy, capacity and governance gaps to be addressed in order to achieve EFA in the
region.
The EDNs consist of six reports, one for each EFA goal that build on the findings of the Asia-Pacific
EFA Mid-Decade Assessment (2006–2008), which examined EFA progress and gaps at the mid-way
point of the 2000–2010 decade.
The first section of each EDN report provides an overview of progress towards the respective
EFA goal. The second section discusses the remaining challenges and priority issues. Each report
concludes with recommendations on what needs to be done to accelerate progress towards the
2015 targets.
While each EDN covers the Asia-Pacific region, it also highlights issues and challenges specific to
subregional groupings, as per the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The EDNs thus cover the
subregions of Central Asia, South and West Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. Details on which countries
are included in the subregional groupings are found in the Statistical Annex at the end of this EDN.
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