World forum on education, Dakar 2000

The World forum on the education , which was held with Dakar (Senegal) of the 26 to the April 28th 2000, under the aegis of UNESCO was the first and the most important event as regards education at dawn of the new century.

The delegates of 181 countries to the World forum on education adopted a Framework of action which urges their governments to bring a education basic of quality for all, in particular for the girls, and has the echo of the wish of the countries and the institutions backers that “no country seriously engaged in the universalization of basic education sees its efforts opposed by the lack of resources”. Although notable progress was recorded in many countries, it is unacceptable, underlined the 1.500 participants in the Forum, that at the dawn of the new millenium more than 113 million children - especially of the girls - are private of primary education, that 880 million adults is still illiterate, that sexual discrimination continues to be exerted on all the levels of the education system and that the quality of exempted education does not meet the needs for the companies.

According to the President of the the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, education “is in the middle of any development policy”. This conviction pushed the World Bank with appreciably increasing the financial allocation which it devotes to this sector, making it pass from 900 million dollars in 1990, year of the Conférence of Jomtien, to 1,9 billion dollar currently.

Objectives

Education was clearly recognized like a basic right of the man and like the key of the development and of durable peaces enters and the countries.

The participants thus committed themselves pursuing the following goals:

To develop and improve under all their aspects protection and education of early childhood, and in particular of the most vulnerable and underprivileged children.

To make so that from here the 2015 all children, in particular the girls and the problem childs and pertaining to the ethnic minorities, have the possibility of reaching an obligatory and free primary school education of quality and to follow it until its term;

To meet the educational needs for all the young people by ensuring an equitable access to adequate programs having for object the acquisition of knowledge as well as necessary competences in the everyday life and for the exercise of an active citizenship;

To improve of 50% the levels of elimination of illiteracy of the adults, and in particular of the women, from here 2015, and to ensure all the adults an equitable access to the programs of basic education and further education;

To eliminate the disparities between the sexes in primary and secondary education from here 2005 and to found the equality in this field in 2015 while in particular taking care to ensure the girls an equitable access and without restriction on an effective basic education and of quality;

To improve under all its aspects quality of education in order to obtain for all from the results of training recognized and quantifiable - in particular with regard to the essential reading, writing and calculation and competences in the everyday life.

Means

To carry out these objectives, the delegates invited with the reliable system development of educational governorship and management, with the implementation of educational programmes of fight against VIH/SIDA, with the taking into account of the needs for the education systems affected by the armed conflicts, with the creation of sure and accessible schools, with the control of new technologies of information and the communication and with the systematic follow-up of made progress. They were also committed encouraging the participation of the civil society in control and the implementation of the development strategies of education. The application of the strategies will be done primarily by means of the existing mechanisms, especially at the national level. The participating countries will have to prepare, at the latest for 2002, a Global level of Education for all (EPT), after consultation with their civil society. This plan will be elaborate in the general context of the efforts of reduction of poverty and of the development strategies, and, inter alia, will have to specify reforms, to envisage indicators of performance to semi-course and to establish budgetary priorities, so that the objectives are achieved at the latest in 2015. Concrete strategies will be identified to integrate excluded them from education.

By adopting the Framework of action of Dakar, the 1.500 participants in the Forum reaffirmed their commitment to arrive at Education for all from here at the year 2015 and entrusted to UNESCO at the same time the role of general coordination between the various partners to the international plan, and the mission of maintaining the dynamics engaged on a world level.

External bonds

“education for all: to hold our collective engagements”, Text adopted with the World forum on education, Dakar 2000, on the site of UNESCO

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