UNESCO leads Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Education

The Global Meeting on Education in the Post-2015 Agenda convened last 18-19 March 2013 in Dakar, Senegal.
This meeting, part of the “global conversation” to discuss development goals as the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals approaches, was co-organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), with the support from the Governments of Senegal, Canada and Germany, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. It gathered over 100 representatives from UN agencies, donors, academia and civil society organizations. The discussions were focused around the way to put quality lifelong learning at the heart of the development agenda, and concluded that education should be central to the post-2015 development agenda. The meeting resulted in an agreement on the overarching goal of “equitable quality lifelong education and leaning for all”, highlighting the consensus that equal access to quality education should be the basis of the agenda in the post-2015 framework. For the Outcome Document of the Meeting, follow this link. For more information, follow this link. Read more...