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Twenty five years after the first world conference on Education For All, held at Jomtien in 1990 and fifteen years after the meeting of the World Education Forum in Dakar Senegal in the year 2000, the World Forum met again on May 19-21 at Incheon, in South Korea. Pakistan which was a signatory to the Jomtien agreement to accelerate the movement for primary education and adult literacy performed poorly, lagging behind most of the countries of the world. It again committed itself at Dakar to a new Framework for Action to achieve 6 Education For All goals by the year 2015 and attain a literacy rate of 86% as well as 100% enrollment in primary education of all school age children in the country.
According to the Global Monitoring Report for the year 2015, Pakistan has failed to achieve even a single of the 6 goals.
The Incheon World Conference on Education reviewed the progress made to achieve the targets set at Dakar and came up with a new declaration for the next 15 years. Called the Incheon Declaration, the new commitments build on the EFA and Millennium Development goals. The goals will be named (SDGs) Sustainable Development Goals and are expected to be formally adopted by the UN General Assembly beginning in September, this year.
The World Education Forum at Incheon was organised by UNESCO and co-convened by UNDP, UNESCO, HCR, UN Women and the World Bank Group.
It will be of interest for the readers to know some of the major points of the Declaration, as follows: * We, Ministers, heads and...