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S O M E O T H E R G L O B A L A S S E S S M E N T P U B L I C A T I O N S / 5 4 1UNESCO (United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization). 2001.Monitoring Report on Education for all2001. Paris, UNESCO/Education for All.This document provides insight into the state of theworld’s education and monitors the progress thatcountries and Education for All partners have madetowards achieving the Dakar goals (adopted by theWorld Education Forum held in Dakar, Senegal,26–28 April 2000). The report highlights importanttrends and findings and points to future actions.[Main challenge area: Ensuring the knowledgebase]———. 2000. EFA 2000 Assessment. Paris,UNESCO/Education for All.This book documents the progress made ineducation since 1990. It presents global, regionaland national education indicators in six key areas:the demand for education, early childhoodprogrammes, primary education, education finance,teachers and literacy.[Main challenge area: Ensuring the knowledgebase]———. Biennial publication. WorldCommunication and Information Report.Paris.A comprehensive reference series on communicationand information and the political, economic,scientific and technological issues associated withthem. Published every two years, the reportprovides both detailed analysis of the mostsignificant trends and events and up-to-date dataon communication and information and theirdevelopments worldwide. The latest report,1999–2000, concentrates on the relation betweeninformation and communications technologies (ICTs)and on some of their socio-cultural impact.[Main challenge area: Ensuring the knowledgebase]———. Biennial publication. World ScienceReport. Paris.This report provides information on the moreimportant technical development of the last twoyears with a discussion of the main issues raised inthis area by some of the most eminent worldspecialists. The last release of the report (1998)includes chapters looking at how science is helpingto safeguard our two most basic commodities –food and water – in a context of rapid demographicgrowth and environmental stress.[Main challenge area: Ensuring the knowledgebase]———. Biennial publication. World SocialScience Report. Paris.First released in 1999, the report takes stock of thesocial sciences as they are, and looks forward totheir continuing development in the comingdecades. It is divided into two parts. The first, AGlobal Picture, provides an overview of the history(since the eighteenth century), future prospects andcurrent organization, financing and resources of thesocial sciences. The second takes up three centralissues: science and technology in society,development and the environment. A final sectionreviews two areas of contact between the naturaland social-cognitive science and the evolutionarystudy of human behaviour.[Main challenge area: Ensuring the knowledgebase]UN-Habitat. 2001. The State of the World’sCities Report 2001. Nairobi.The State of the World’s Cities Report 2001 is afirst in-depth attempt to monitor, analyse and reporton the realities faced by urban populations aroundthe world. The report was produced by UN Habitatto coincide with the Istanbul + 5 Special Session ofthe United Nations General Assembly. Its centralmessage is that people’s processes and initiativesand enabling governing structures must unite toform broad-based partnerships that will promotejustice, equity and sustainability in cities.[Main challenge areas: Water and cities, Meetingbasic needs]———. 2001. Cities in a Globalizing World:Global Report on Human Settlements 2001.Nairobi.The report argues that technology-driven options forgrowth and development – which spur globalization– have led to divided cities where the lines ofstratification between people, places and groups arebecoming more magnified. The costs and benefits ofglobalization are unevenly distributed both withinand between cities. In many countries, real incomeshave fallen, the costs of living have gone up andthe number of poor households has grown,particularly in urban areas. Sixty countries havebecome steadily poorer since 1980.[Main challenge areas: Water and cities, Meetingbasic needs]UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund).2002. Children in the New Millennium:Environmental Impact on Health. Geneva.By illustrating the link between the environment andthe well-being of our children, this joint UnitedNations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNICEFand World Health Organization (WHO) report raisesawareness and deepens our understanding ofenvironmental health issues. It provides an overviewof key environmental health threats to children. Thereport concludes with a series of practicalrecommendations for action at the local, national,regional and international levels to stimulatediscussion and intensify action in the field ofchildren’s environmental health.[Main challenge area: Meeting basic needs]———. 1997. A Child’s Right to SustainableDevelopment. New York.The report argues that children are our future andthus they will bear the consequences of today’sdecisions. If sustainable development is to beachieved, it must be from their perspective.[Main challenge area: Governing water wisely]