Education for All Goals (EFA)

1. Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
2. Universal Primary Education
3. Lifelong learning for youth and adults
4. Adult literacy
5. Gender equality
6. Quality education

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

1. Poverty and hunger
2. Universal primary education
3. Gender equality & empower women
4. Child mortality
5. Maternal health
6. HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
7. Environmental sustainability
8. Global partnerships

Former Director 
2006, 2007, 2008 reports

Nicholas Burnett was appointed Assistant Director-General for Education on 5 September. Since October 2004, Mr Burnett has been Director of UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report, where he has maintained the Report’s editorial independence and high standards.

From the United Kingdom, Mr Burnett has spent his entire career working on developing and transition countries, much of it on Africa. As well as working for the World Bank, he also worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office as an Economic Adviser on Africa and Latin America and managed his own international consulting firm, specializing in human development and strategic management.