26 February - 2 March 2007
Bangkok, Thailand

National EFA Coordinators and delegations from 19 countries, and representatives from civil society organizations and UN agencies involved in education met to review progress related to the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment (MDA) focused on "reaching the unreached."

EFA coordinators have met regularly since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar and this year’s meeting focused on the national, sub-regional and regional activities for the Asia and Pacific EFA MDA.  Countries that participated in the meeting were Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lao PDR, Korea (DPR), Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

The meeting was supported by the UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust cooperation.

Workshop Presentations:
Day 1: Orientation and MDA Review
Meeting Orientation and Overview (PPT/986KB) - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Institute for Statistics Regional Advisor for Asia-Pacific and AIMS-UIS Unit Chief, UNESCO Bangkok
Panel Discussion Presentations:
  Reaching the Unreached (PPT797KB)- Ko-Chih Tung, AIMS-UIS, UNESCO Bangkok
  HIV/AIDS (PPT/182KB) - Emmanuelle Abrioux, UNICEF EAPRO
  Gender & Social Equality (PPT/491KB) - Maki Hayashikawa, UNESCO Bangkok
  Rights-Based education (PPT/164KB) - Johan Lindeberg, UNESCO Bangkok
  Stakeholders Participation in MDA - Ma. Cecilia Soriano, E-Net Philipines

Day 2: National EFA MDA Reporting and Review
Goal-based Assessment (PPT/585KB) - Ko-Chih Tung, AIMS-UIS, UNESCO Bangkok

Day 3: National EFA MDA Reporting and Review
International Mother Language Day: Launch of Advocacy Kit Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded - Sheldon Shaeffer, Director, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau of Education  
Literacy Assessment: The Indonesia Example - Kay Ringenberg, SIL Indonesia

Day 4: Development of Sub-Regional Reports
Organization and TOR for Sub-Regional and Regional Report Preparation - Ko-Chih Tung, AIMS-UIS, UNESCO Bangkok
Cross-cutting case studies and assessment of partner agencies, NGOs and CSOs - Cliff Meyers, Regional Adviser-Education, UNICEF EAPRO

Day 5: Regional and Global Action: Next Steps Forward
Summary of Sub-regional Issues:
  East and South-East Asia (PPT/49KB)
  South Asia (PPT/39KB)
Recommendations from Gender Focal Points (PPT/378KB)
Inputs from Civil Society Organizations 

Other meeting documents:
Meeting Terms of Reference (pdf/60KB)
Administrative Information Sheet (pdf/24KB)
Registration Form (word/48KB)
Guidelines for Country Presentations (pdf/106KB)Proposed National Report Outline (pdf/31KB) 

Reference Documents:
Guidelines for the Asia and Pacific EFA Mid-Decade Assessment, Working Draft (pdf/958KB)
Summary of results of the EFA Global Monitoring Report online consultation for the 2008 edition focusing on EFA stocktaking and reaching the unreached (pdf/30KB) or visit the GMR website

The meeting was organized on behalf of the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education by the Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit, which is the regional office of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and the Asia-Pacific Programme for Education for All (APPEAL) Unit at UNESCO Bangkok.  Members of the inter-agency Thematic Working Group on EFA, led by UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO and UNESCAP, will also attend the meeting.

Country presentations made during the workshop were preliminary and therefore cannot be widely distributed. A CD containing all the workshop materials and presentations is also available. E-mail efa.bgk[at]unesco.org and aims.bgk[at]unesco.org to request for a copy.

If you have problems downloading the documents above, e-mail efa.bgk[at]unesco.org.