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close this bookWorld Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs - Final Report (UNICEF - UNDP - UNESCO - WB - WCEFA, 1990, 129 p.)
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View the documentSponsors of the World Conference on Education for All
View the documentPreface
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close this folder1. Education for All: An Overview
View the documentThe EFA Initiative
View the documentThe Conference
View the documentProgramme Structure and Index
close this folder2. Education for All: The Context - Summary of the Opening Session
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View the documentA Unique Opportunity
View the documentExternal Debt, Optimization of Resources
View the documentBasic Education: Broadening the Concept
View the documentVision, Will, Partnerships
View the documentA Focus on Human Development
close this folder3. Education for All: The Consensus-Building - Summary of Interventions in the Plenary Commission
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View the documentConvictions
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View the documentMaking a Difference
View the documentEducation for All: Realities
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View the documentBasic Education - A Foundation
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View the documentNew Models of Cooperation and Partnership
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close this folderCommitments
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View the documentNational Action, International Support
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close this folder4. Education for All: The Components - Summary of Roundtables
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View the documentThe Purpose
close this folderAn Expanded Vision
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View the documentIncreasing Access and Equity
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close this folderThe Requirements
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close this folder5. Education for All: Call to Action - Summary of Closing Plenary Session
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close this folder1. World Declaration on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs
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close this folder2. Framework for Action
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close this folder1. Priority Action at National Level
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View the document1.1 Assessing Needs and Planning Action
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close this folder2. Priority Action at Regional Level
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View the documentIndicative Phasing of Implementation for the 1990s
View the document3. Statement on the Follow-Up to the World Conference on Education for All
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close this folderAnnexes
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close this folderB. Roundtables
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Basic Education: Broadening the Concept

The concept of basic education itself needs to be broadened beyond literacy and numeracy to include a wide range of skills and knowledge for living. HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn highlighted:

... the need to meet basic learning needs... by emphasising such topics as occupational development, knowledge of health care, food preparation, child care,... nature and the environment.

President Moi expanded upon the theme:

We must increasingly look towards education to help solve such problems as unemployment, population growth, declining agricultural production, and the damage being caused to our environment.