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Education for All: will we make it by 2015?
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Education for All: will we make it by 2015?Susan Durston, Senior Education Advisor, UNICEF ROSA Susan Durston began the session with a review of international declarations and commitments to education. Young Champions should be familiar with these as they can be used as leverage in countries that are not achieving these goals and international communities can use them to channel resources into countries that need support. Education for All, (EFA) is an international commitment to education that was launched in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand (EFA goals are listed in the following table). To assess the mid-decade progress towards EFA, UNICEF ROSA has produced a regional report on all the South Asian countries, except Afghanistan.
If all children are to complete a basic education by 2015, they will all need to be enrolled by 2009 South Asia and global trendsBetween 1999 and 2005, the number of out-of-school children declined from 96 million to 72 million in every region except in East Asia and the Pacific. The greatest drop was observed in South and West Asia, followed by sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, the net enrollment rate (NER), the percentage of school-aged children attending school, has risen everywhere except in East Asia and the Pacific in the last 14 years. The NER is the best indicator of progress. In 2005, the average NER in South and West Asia stood at 86% compared to 72% in 1991, demographic pressures being the main challenge to further increases. Global figures showed an increase from 647 million children enrolled in primary education in 1999 to 688 million in 2005. South and West Asia are the second fastest growing regions for primary enrolment, after sub-Saharan Africa. In South and West Asia, there were 192.7 million children enrolled in primary education in 2005 and 135.4 million in 1991. But increasing enrollment is not enough: there are more children dropping out before the end of primary school than there are out-of-school children. Around 16% of children counted as being out of school had initially enrolled but left before reaching the official age of completion. The average gender enrollment ratio (GER) also rose from 92% in 1991 to 113% in 2005, indicating a high number of under- or over-age enrolments. Although South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa have been progressing more rapidly than other countries in achieving EFA goals, they are still the regions with the greatest number of out-of-school children. Moreover, the school age population will continue to increase in South Asia until 2050. In 2005, there were an estimated 17 million of out-of-school children in 2005, two-thirds of whom were female. Who are the 17 million out-of-school children?
To illustrate the profile of out-of-school children, Susan Durston shared Sunita Tamang’s letter. She then asked the Young Champions to identify the groups most likely to be out of school based on a graph (see power point presentation on accompanying CD). These were the poorest, girls, the second poorest and rural children. GROUP WORK: Susan Durston asked the Young Champions to respond to the following questions, using figures for education in their country:
The Young Champions’ answers are summarized in Table 1. Female and rural children have lower net attendance rates for primary school in all South Asian countries except for Bangladesh and the Maldives. Secondary school attendance is significantly lower for all categories.  
Table 1: Girls’ education: barriers and strategies
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