Education for All

• The World Declaration on Education for All
  For the EFA World Conference, Jomtien, Thailand, 2000
  
  In 1990, 151 governments and several international organizations met in Jomtien, Thailand, to affirm their commitment to Education for All as an absolute priority, and to ratify the EFA Declaration. I was tasked to present the final draft to the general assembly. PowerPoint was not yet invented at the time, but I used an earlier [program to provide visual images to the presentation of the declaration' main points. From that time on, I learned that images can be more powerful, and interesting, than words in conveying ideas, something even many current PowerPoint users do not fully realize.
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  Summary report of progress towards EFA in Asia Pacific
  For the preparatory regional Conference on Education for All, Bangkok, 2000, 5 pp.
  
  In preparation for the 2000 World conference in Senegal marking the ten yeas of the Education for All decade, each country, and each region, prepared an assessment of EFA, guided by common criteria and methodology provided by UNESCO. The Asia Pacific region presented its country and sub-regional findings in January 2000. This speech summarizes those findings.
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  Education: Quality and Equity: MDG progress
  For the UNICEF Ministerial Consultation on Children, Bali, 2003, 5 pp.
  
  Three years after the promulgation of the Millennium Development Goals in 2003, two of which dealt with primary education and gender equity, UNICEF convened the social sector ministries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific to evaluate the rate of progress of different countries toward the MDGs. I presented the state of progress in the Education for All area, and drew out lessons from successes and failures in different countries of that experience.
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• Towards lifelong education for all
  Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Education, Science, Culture and Communication, Paris 1994.
• in 1994 175 Parlimentarians from 71 countries met in Paris to align themselves to UNESCO's concerns I was asked to see the linkages of their work to lifelong education for all.
  
  
  EFA and the Partnership with Bilateral Donors
  For British government. ODA, Overseas Development Administration, London, 1993, 6 pp
  
  I commissioned a research study on patterns of operation and spending modalities of bilateral and multilateral donors of Education for All. This presentation summarizes the research findings. (The full text is in the Read section of this website) .

• Opening Remarks
  For World Congress on the Role of Youth and NGOs in Literacy, Tokyo, 1995. 3 pp.


• Opening Remarks
  For Third Asia regional Literacy Forum, Beijing, 1999. 3 pp.
• This presentation attempted to expand the understanding of literacy beyond reading and writing to make it a tool fo genuine empowerment of indiviudals and societies.