Press room

The Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report (GMR) is an annual publication that monitors progress toward a set of targets to which over 160 countries committed themselves in 2000. Every year, it also focuses on a specific theme of particular relevance to achieving the EFA goals.

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Press materials and other resources

• Youth Voices on Youth Skills
• Photo gallery
• Case studies - Global Monitoring Report 2012
• Video 3 minute package
• Media coverage - The EFA Global Monitoring Report generates news and reports throughout the year from all regions of the world. Please let us know when you quote the Report.
• World Education Blog by the Report's team members
• Twitter follow @EfaReport to get news releases, story tips, links to EFA related media and more
• Visit our Facebook poll to see the ongoing poll with young people on the subject of our GMR 2012

Press releases

• NEW: 2013 May 7 - Natural resource revenue could reduce out of school numbers by 86% in 17 developing countries | Spanish | French 
• 2013 Apr 26 - EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012 launch in India: 200 million young people fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
• 2013 Mar 15 - Funding gap for education growing, according to new figures released by UNESCO | Spanish | French
• 2013 Jan 21 - Private Sector contributions to education are les than 0.1% of profits of two of the world's biggest oil companies
• 2012 Dec 10 - New innovative youth campaign launched by the Global Monitoring Report calling on governments to 'put education to work'
• 2012 Nov 09 - New Country rankings on education for poor females put Pakistan in the bottom ten
• 2012 Oct 26 - Reaction to teacher training changes in the UK
• 2012 Oct 23 - Reaction to the news that the Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs in Ghana has launched a campaign to promote girls enrolment into male dominated technical skills
• 2012 Oct 18 - New report: Pakistan shows slowest progress getting poor girls into school in South & West Asia
• 2012 Oct 16 - Tipping the balance: Girls out of school halved since 1999
• 2012 Oct 16 - UNESCO Press release: Twenty percent of young people in developing countries fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work - French | Spanish | Russian
• 2012 Oct 16 - North America - Twenty percent of young New Yorkers out of school and out of work
• 2012 Oct 16 Europe - $1 invested in youth skills can pay back fifteen-fold in economic growth
  - French
• 2012 Oct 16 - Arab States - Twenty percent of young people in the Arab States fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
• 2012 Oct 16 - Central Asia & Central and Eastern Europe - Almost four million young people in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
  - Russian
• 2012 Oct 16 - East Asia & the Pacific - One in twelve of young people in East Asia and the Pacific fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
• 2012 Oct 16 - Latin America and the Caribbean - One in twelve young people in Latin America and the Caribbean fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
  - Spanish
• 2012 Oct 16 - South and West Asia - Over one quarter of young people in South and West Asia fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
• 2012 Oct 16 - Sub-Saharan Africa - One third of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work
  - French
• 2012 Jun 15 - UNESCOPRESS release: After years of progress, new UNESCO study shows numbers of out-of-school children rising, especially in Africa
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Media event

There was a global launch in Paris, France, regional launches in South Africa and Chile and national launches in over 40 other countries. Click here to find out more.