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The UNESCO Education For All (EFA) High Level Group Meeting
December, 2007
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The UNESCO Education For All (EFA) High Level Group meeting
took place in Dakar, Senegal from December 11-13, 2007.
The United States participated actively in the meeting, with a Delegation
led by U.S. Ambassador
to UNESCO Louise V. Oliver that included two senior officials
from USAID.
Midway to the 2015 target date, this year’s meeting focused on ways
to achieve EFA goals. Ministers, donors, and multilateral and civil society
representatives discussed measures for 2008 and beyond, that would address
the three primary themes of the meeting - excluded groups, education quality
and the financing of basic education.
Meeting in Dakar, where the six EFA goals were originally
adopted in 2000, participants recognized that “we are now in a position
to know better what works in basic education, but the current pace of progress
is not sufficient to meet the 2015 target.”
The United States strongly supports UNESCO’s goal of ensuring every
child has access to a quality education by 2015.
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