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Education For All
The
education programme in UNESCO Maputo Office, focuses
on the follow-up to the
World Forum on Education held in Dakar, Senegal, in
April 2000. The Office programme
put emphasis on supporting the formulation of the
National Education for All (EFA)
plan of action to ensure the integration of the Six EFA
goals in the Education
Strategic Sector plan by 2015. The role of UNESCO
consists of sensitization,
mobilization, coordination and sharing of information at
regional and national level
as well as building partnerships for EFA.
Young Mozambican school girls at the launch of
EFA Week 2006 under the slogan "Every student
needs a teacher". |
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Teacher and students at Changalane Upper
Primary School in Maputo Province. Photos:
Nina Bull Jørgensen, UNESCO Maputo |
Capacity building
UNESCO has contributed to the Planning of EFA through
the support to the capacity
building for EFA planning and formulation of EFA action
plan for Mozambique. The
main activities has focussed on capacity building for
EFA, policy dialogue and advice,
advocacy and dissemination of information on EFA,
Implementation of experimental
projects both Regular and extra-budgetary, mobilization
of funds for EFA activities. In
this regard, UNESCO Maputo played an important role in clarifying the
issue of EFA
plans to partners and stakeholders and mobilizing the
civil society to participate in
the planning process. Through the Extra-budgetary
Programme for Technical Services
to Member States, UNESCO Maputo Organized capacity building training
activities
at International, National and provincial level in
collaboration with MINED and EPS at
UNESCO HQ in support to Education Planning through
computers.
Coordination
UNESCO is coordinating the UN Education Technical
Working group and participating
in the coordination mechanisms established by the MINED
to harmonise cooperation
with the International partners. UNESCO has brought its
comparative advantage in
particular in the area of EFA planning through the use
of computer simulation models. Policy dialogue. UNESCO
has also worked with the EFA Movement and built its
capacity to
discuss policy matters and contribute to the production
a credible EFA planning
process.
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THE SIX EFA GOALS
1. Achieving a 50 per
cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for
women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for
all adults.
2. Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and
education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged
children.
3. Improving every aspect of the quality of education, and ensuring
their excellence so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes
are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential
life skills.
4. Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children
in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities,
have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of
good quality.
5. Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults
are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life
skills programmes.
6. Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education
by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a
focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in
basic education of good quality.
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