Education For All
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At the dawn of the new millennium, Education International and its broad coalition of teachers' unions, and development non-governmental organisations joined forces to launch the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). The alliance represents organisations active in 180 countries, including Education International, Oxfam International, Action Aid, the Global March Against Child Labour, and dozens of regional and national NGO coalitions in developing countries. Together, they lobby for the attainment of Education For All (EFA) by 2015, in consultation with the stakeholders: teacher unions and civil society organizations.
Every year in April, together with its GCE partners, EI organizes a Global Action Week by mobilizing its affiliated organizations around the world to rally politicians and governments to fulfil their promise made at Dakar, Senegal, to provide education to all children by 2015.
For more information, visit our Global Action Week website: www.ei-ie.org/globalactionweek
EI sits on the Editorial Board of UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report, a publication which provides a yearly assessment of the EFA process, and is part of the UNESCO High Level Group on EFA. In 2003, EI undertook a Europe for Education campaign which has enabled the passing of a resolution, at the European Parliament, on increasing development cooperation towards education programs. Amongst other activities, EI is working with the World Bank regarding its EFA "Fast Track Initiative" and its impact on teachers' salaries as stipulated in its indicative framework. EI is also addressing the issue of teacher shortage to achieve EFA by 2015 by holding conferences on non-civil service teachers. Currently, EI is conducting its EI EFA programs in 15 countries, where it works with its affiliates to help them to build up capacity on national EFA policy development in their respective countries.
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