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Report 2006

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.

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  • Foreword
  • Table of contents
  • Headline messages
  • Executive summary
  • Chapters
    1. Literacy: the core of Education for All
    2. EFA progress: where do we stand?
    3. Country efforts: increasing momentum
    4. International commitments: time to act
    5. Why literacy matters
    6. Understandings of literacy
    7. Mapping the global literacy challenge
    8. The making of literate societies
    9. Good policy, good practice
    10. Setting priorities for action
  • Annex
    1. EDI and prospects for the achievement of EFA
    2. Statistical annex (14 tables)
    3. Aid data annex 
    4.  

Regional Overviews

- Arab States
- East Asia and the Pacific
- Latin America and the Caribbean | sp
- South and West Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- E9 countries
 

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  • 2012 - Skills development 
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  • 2011 - Conflict
  • 2010 - Marginalization
  • 2009 - Governance
  • 2008 - Mid-term Review
  • 2007 - Early Childhood
  • 2006 - Literacy
  • 2005 - Quality
  • 2003/4 - Gender
  • 2002 - EFA on Track?

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