Education for All

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 102 Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family, published in 1998.

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Basic Education Child Mortality Declarations Education Financial Assistance Gender Equality Girls Human Development Human Rights Illiteracy Information Exchange International Decades Literacy Literacy Programmes Population Growth Poverty Mitigation Sustainable Development Women

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization entitled "Progress report on the implementation process of the education for all objectives";⁸

⁸A/52/183.

Reaffirms that basic education for all is essential for achieving the goals of eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, curbing population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy;

Acknowledges the efforts of the mid-decade review of progress towards achieving the goals of education for all in identifying both continuing and emerging challenges, and stresses the need to meet those challenges and to accelerate the efforts to meet the basic needs of people of all age groups, particularly girls and women;

Appeals to all Governments to step up their efforts to eradicate illiteracy and to direct education towards the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Also appeals to all Governments to redouble their efforts to achieve their own goals of education for all by setting firm targets and timetables, where possible, including gender-specific education targets and programmes to combat the illiteracy of women and girls, and by working in active partnership with communities, associations, the media and development agencies, to reach those targets;

Appeals anew to Governments and to economic and financial organizations and institutions, both national and international, to lend greater financial and material support to the efforts to increase literacy and achieve education for all;

Invites Member States, the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to further intensify their efforts to effectively implement the World Declaration on Education for All,⁹ the Amman Affirmation6 and the Hamburg Declaration and the Agenda for the Future adopted at the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, held at Hamburg, Germany, from 14 to 18 July 1997, as well as the relevant commitments and recommendations to promote literacy made at major United Nations-sponsored international conferences, with a view to better coordinating their activities and increasing their contribution to development;

⁹Final Report of the World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs, Jomtien, Thailand, 5-9 March 1990, Inter-Agency Commission (UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank) for the World Conference on Education for All, New York, 1990, appendix I.

Recommends that all Member States and relevant organizations of the United Nations, as well as non-governmental organizations, provide the necessary information on the implementation of the strategies of education for all to the Secretary-General and to the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization so as to enable them to report on the overall progress achieved and the shortfalls encountered in attaining the goal of education for all;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and in consultation with Member States, to consider effective ways and means for achieving the goal of education for all, including the desirability and the feasibility of launching a United Nations decade to eradicate illiteracy, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the question of cooperation towards education for all under the item on social development.

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