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Regional Launch of the 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report in Thailand

The 2010 Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report launched in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 June 2010 from 8.30 - 12.00 noon at Chulalongkorn University. Under the theme of “Reaching the Marginalized”, Gwang-Jo Kim, Director of UNESCO Bangkok gave a presentation on the 2010 education report. Key EFA progress was highlighted along with remaining challenges, in view of the region’s struggle to recover from the impact of the global economic crisis.

A panel discussion took place with the following panelists: Albert Motivans, Chief of the Education Indicators and Data Analysis Section of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Abhimanyu Singh, Director of UNESCO Beijing Office and Former Director of UNESCO’s Division of International Coordination and Monitoring of EFA (2005), Harry Patrinos of the World Bank and Anupama Rao Singh, Regional Director of UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Office.

In the afternoon, a roundtable on “Financing quality education in the face of the global economic crisis: The Thailand Example” was held from 13:30- 15:30 hrs., also at Chulalongkorn University. The roundtable was co-organized by Thailand’s Ministry of Education and UNESCO Bangkok. For more information, please contact bkk.efa[at]unesco.org. To download the full report, visit www.unesco.org/en/efareport.

2010 GMR Launch Programme Agenda (pdf/233KB)
Roundtable Agenda (pdf/8.7KB)

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