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Education For All:
Meeting Our Collective Commitments
Text adopted by the World Education Forum
Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000
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The Dakar Declaration includes the proposal that all children of in the relevant age group should be in primary school by 2015.
Latest reports are that it is unlikely that these targets will be met.
These United Nations proposals were agreed in 2000 with a view to implementation in 2015. The official name for the declaration is 'The Dakar Framework for Action'.
7. We hereby collectively commit ourselves to the attainment of the
following goals:
(i) expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and
education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children;
(ii) ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in
difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have
access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good
quality;
(iii) ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are
met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills
programmes;
(iv) achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by
2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing
education for all adults;
(v) eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by
2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on
ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education
of good quality;
(vi) improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring
excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are
achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
Source: UNESCO: Dakar Framework.
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