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EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006
Education for All - Global Monitoring Report
Literacy for Life
The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty.
Unless mentioned otherwise, all downloadable files are PDFs
Summary [PDF] - en | fr | es | ar | ru | zh
Regional Overviews [PDF]
- Arab States
- East Asia and the Pacific
- Latin America and the Caribbean | sp
- South and West Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- E9 countries
Full Report
Download the full report [PDF - 7.04 MB] or in sections:
- Foreword
- Table of contents
- Headline messages
- Executive summary
- Chapters [PDF]
- Literacy: the core of Education for All (2.5 MB)
- EFA progress: where do we stand? (4.7 MB)
- Country efforts: increasing momentum (3.8 MB)
- International commitments: time to act (4.7 MB)
- Why literacy matters (2.5 MB)
- Understandings of literacy (8.6 MB)
- Mapping the global literacy challenge (7.8 MB)
- The making of literate societies (7.8 MB)
- Good policy, good practice (3.5 MB)
- Setting priorities for action (2.9 MB)
- Annex
This full report can also be obtained in print version at UNESCO Publishing and on CD-ROM upon request to efareport(at)unesco.org
Other related resources
- Background Papers
- Presentation (power-point)
- Press release
- Dedicated website for this report (no longer updated)


