Goals
Education for All Goals (EFA)
- Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
- Universal Primary Education
- Lifelong learning for youth and adults
- Adult literacy
- Gender equality
- Quality education
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Poverty and hunger
- Universal primary education
- Gender equality & empower women
- Child mortality
- Maternal health
- HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
- Environmental sustainability
- Global partnerships
Kevin Watkins
Director, EFA Global Monitoring Report
Kevin Watkins took up his post with the GMR team in January 2008, having just completed several years as director and lead author of the UNDP Human Development Report. He had previously served on the drafting committee of the Dakar Framework for Action and the six Education for All Goals agreed to in 2000 and was the author of Oxfam’s influential Education Report, published the same year.
He holds a BA in Politics and Social Science from Durham University and a doctorate from Oxford University, during which time he spent a year in India and wrote his dissertation on “The economics and politics of Indian nationalism from 1880-1947”.
He is currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow with the Global Economic Governance (CEG) programme, University College, Oxford University.