4-7 May 2009
Bangkok, Thailand

From 4 to 7 May, national EFA coordinators and delegations from 31 countries, including representatives from Central Asia involved in education met to prepare sub-regional and regional strategies towards Reaching the Unreached in Education and Meeting the EFA Goals by 2015. Focus was given to regional coordination, regional support and capacity development, institutionalizing EFA monitoring and evaluation, and country processes.

Countries and EFA partners also discussed lessons learned from the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment along with a proposal to evaluate the whole EFA MDA process to ensure that the next assessments will gain from the lessons and good practices of the MDA.

The UIS-AIMS Unit, which is the UIS Regional Office, on behalf of the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education was primarily responsible for organizing this conference, in close collaboration with the Regional TWG on EFA which is co-chaired by UNICEF.

This conference was made possible with funding support from UNESCO Bangkok and the EFA Global Monitoring Report. Additional support to participants from specific countries was also provided by the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Office.

Meeting documents:
Agenda (word/131KB)
Questionnaire (word/141KB)
Terms of Reference (PDF/53KB)
Information Note (PDF/27KB)
Registration Form (doc/26KB)

Presentations on Day 1:

• 2009 EFA Global Monitoring Report - Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Office (PPT/740KB)
• Sub-Regional Policy Recommendations on Reaching the Unreached:
  
  East & South-East Asia (PPT/378KB)
  Central Asia (PPT/159KB)
  Pacific (PPT/85KB)
• Regional Policy Recommendations on Reaching the Unreached (PPT/155KB)
• Recommendations of the 48th Session of the International Conference on Education (ICE) - Johan Lindeberg, APPEAL Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/212KB)
• CONFINTEA VI Recommendations to Promote Adult Learning and Education - Abdul Hakeem, APPEAL Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/512KB)
• Financing Education for Equity - Le Thu Huong, EPR Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/158KB)
• Lessons Learned from the EFA MDA - Ko-Chih Tung, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/2.43MB)
• EFA MDA in Sri Lanka - Badra Withanage, Sri Lanka (PPT/273KB)
• EFA MDA Cambodia -  H.E. Nath Bunroeun, Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia (PPT/97KB)
• EFA MDA Evaluation - Nyi Nyi Thaung, UIS-AIMS Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/525KB)

Presentations on Day 2:

• Overview & Rationale - EFA Strategy - Ko-Chih Tung, UIS-AIMS Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/5.2MB)
• Monitoring EFA at the Global Level - Albert Motivans, UIS Montreal (PPT/900KB)
• EFA Info - Jon Kapp, UNICEF EAPRO (PPT/1.2MB)
• Reaching the Unreached - SEAMEO - Dato'Dr Ahamad bin Sipon, Director, SEAMEO Secretariat (PPT/3MB)

Presentation on Day 4:

• Way Forward: Vision, Strategy and the End-of-Decade Assessment (EDA) - Ko-Chih Tung, UIS-AIMS Unit, UNESCO Bangkok (PPT/1.2MB)

Related documents:
National EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Reports
Sub-regional EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Synthesis Reports