World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs - Final Report (UNICEF - UNDP - UNESCO - WB - WCEFA, 1990, 129 p.): 2. Education for All: The Context - Summary of the Opening Session: Vision, Will, Partnerships

World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs - Final Report (UNICEF - UNDP - UNESCO - WB - WCEFA, 1990, 129 p.)

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Sponsors of the World Conference on Education for All

Preface

Acronyms Used in the Main Text

1. Education for All: An Overview

The EFA Initiative

The Conference

Programme Structure and Index

2. Education for All: The Context - Summary of the Opening Session

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A Unique Opportunity

External Debt, Optimization of Resources

Basic Education: Broadening the Concept

Vision, Will, Partnerships

A Focus on Human Development

3. Education for All: The Consensus-Building - Summary of Interventions in the Plenary Commission

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Convictions

Concerns

Making a Difference

Education for All: Realities

Education in Context

Basic Education - A Foundation

Focus on Effective Learning

Balancing Priorities: Basic and Higher Education

New Models of Cooperation and Partnership

Outreach and Equity

Educational Channels

Resources

Commitments

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National Action, International Support

Commitments of the Sponsors

Enlarging the Global Resource Pool

4. Education for All: The Components - Summary of Roundtables

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The Purpose

An Expanded Vision

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Increasing Access and Equity

A Focus on Learning

Broadening the Scope of Basic Education.

Enhancing the Learning Environment

Strengthening Partnerships

The Requirements

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Building National Technical Capacity

Developing a Supportive Policy Environment

Mobilizing Financial Resources

Strengthening International Solidarity

5. Education for All: Call to Action - Summary of Closing Plenary Session

Commited Partnerships

Calls to Action

Guidelines for the Future

A Beginning, Not an End

We Are on our Way

Appendices

1. World Declaration on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs

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Preamble

Education for All: The Purpose

Education for All: An Expanded Vision and A Renewed Commitment

Education for All: The Requirements

2. Framework for Action

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Introduction

Goals and Targets

Principles of Action

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1. Priority Action at National Level

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1.1 Assessing Needs and Planning Action

1.2 Developing a Supportive Policy Environment

1.3 Designing Policies to Improve Basic Education

1.4 Improving Managerial, Analytical and Technological Capacities

1.5 Mobilizing Information and Communication Channels

1.6 Building Partnerships and Mobilizing Resource's

2. Priority Action at Regional Level

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2.1 Exchanging Information, Experience and Expertise

2.2 Undertaking Joint Activities

3. Priority Action at World Level

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3.1 Cooperation within the International Context

3.2 Enhancing National Capacities

3.3 Providing Sustained Long-term Support for National and Regional Actions

3.4 Consultations on Policy Issues

Indicative Phasing of Implementation for the 1990s

3. Statement on the Follow-Up to the World Conference on Education for All

4. Statement of Principles on the Involvement of NGOs in WCEFA Follow-Up Activities with Non-NGO Bodies

Annexes

A. Conference Schedule

B. Roundtables

Thematic Roundtables

Illustrative Roundtables

C. Exhibits

D. Documents

E. Conference Management and Services

F. Composition of the Inter-Agency Commission

G. Participant List

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Vision, Will, Partnerships

Mr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO, speaking on behalf of the four sponsoring agencies, placed the Education for All initiative in the context of the human cost of recent declines in the field of basic education, and emphasised the need for the conference both to renew commitment to, and provide action guidelines for, achieving basic education for all within a foreseeable time-frame.

But while the challenge of Education for All may appear daunting, a mix of vision, political will and new partnerships could well produce the "revolution" required.

Whether we can eliminate illiteracy within the next ten years will depend on cooperation at every level from the governmental and private sectors, as well as from independent agencies, which must all coordinate their efforts around the world.

HRH Princess Maha Chalcri Sirindhorn

The theme "Education for All-Meeting Basic Learning Needs" is above all about people, the most valuable resource on our planet.

W. Haddad
Executive Secretary, WCEFA

SELF-RELIANCE

Speakers further emphasized the necessary corollary to cooperation: self-reliance, whether of individuals suffering from inequity, of people at large, or of nation-states:

When you educate a woman, you educate a nation. We should not, therefore, allow cultural factors, financial constraints, and other factors that militate against the education of women to hinder our efforts to provide quality education to this important segment of the world population.

President Moi
Kenya

People are not mere numbers. When adequately trained and empowered, they are transformed into mighty forces for positive change and progress. Literacy and basic education are the indispensable tools and steps for such empowerment. We in Bangladesh are trying our best to achieve this empowerment.

President Ershad
Bangladesh

The root of all dependencies originates in technological dependence... thus we in developing countries have to create our own capacity to generate technologies adequate for our conditions of life, to select technologies and to adapt them to our economic and social infrastructures, all this forming part of our own culture, our own idiosyncracies and our own way of being.

President Borja
Ecuador