
This Regional Education for All site includes information on EFA news, EFA history, and EFA data and resources from across the region allowing users to draw on regional expertise to aid in research, sound policy making and implementation of educational programming towards the attainment of quality education for all. The Regional EFA website is maintained by the UIS-AIMS Unit on behalf of the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.
In Focus

11th Regional Meeting of National EFA Coordinators
The upcoming 11th Regional Meeting of National EFA Coordinators is scheduled to take place from 18-20 Novermber 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting is aimed at facilitating information exchange among countries on EFA progress, in particular reaching the unreached and marginalized in education as a way of ensuring success in meeting the EFA goals. The meeting will also be a venue to identify the major challenges the region is facing towards achieving the EFA goals and reflect on challenges beyond 2015. Read more
Latest News
10.05.10
More than 100 representatives from NGOs from all regions gathered at the 5th meeting of UNESCO’s Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All (CCNGO/EFA). The meeting was held from 22 to 24 March 2010 in Dhaka and...read more >>
10.05.10
India’s “Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009” came into force on 1 April, 2010.
The Education Act not only legalizes the right to education, but also places the responsibilities on the governments and...read more >>
20.08.09
The Philippines’ Department of Education (DepEd) issued Order No.74 on 14 July 2009, institutionalizing mother tongue-based multilingual education in formal education. read more >>
18.06.09
Some 218 million children between the ages of five and 17 are forced to work, a violation of their right to an education and an affront to human dignity, UNESCO statistics have revealed.read more >>
Publications
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the Marginalized |
GENIA Toolkit 2009 - Promotes gender equality and mainstream gender in education |
EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Sub-Regional Synthesis Reports |
EFA Workshops

Reaching the Unreached: Meeting of South-East Asian Countries to Achieve the EFA Goals Together by 2015
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and UNESCO came together for the first time to organize and host a meeting on education. The aimed to take stock of the extent of initiatives and projects, identify remaining common challenges in attaining EFA goals, provide suggestions to accelerate progress towards reaching the unreached and develop activites and projects that South-East Asian countries can work together on, with the help of EFA partners. The meeting took place from 2 to 4 September 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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South Asia EFA Mid-Term Policy Review Conference
Representatives from South Asian countries, UN agencies and partners involved in education met in Nepal to prepare policy recommendations aimed at ensuring the achievement of the Education for All goals by 2015. Results of the national and sub-regional EFA Mid-Decade Assessment(MDA) reports and the 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report were used to translate findings of the MDA into concrete actions, identify policy gaps, and propose policies and strategies towards reaching the un-reached groups in education. The conference was held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 16 to 19 June 2008. Read more

South-East Asia EFA Mid-Term Policy Review Conference and 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report Launch
Representatives from South-East Asian countries, UN agencies and partners involved in education gathered in Thailand to prepare policy recommendations aimed at ensuring the achievement of EFA by 2015 using results of the national and sub-regional EFA Mid-Decade Assessment (MDA) reports and the 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report. The conference was held in Jomtien, Thailand from 18 to 21 February 2008. Read more