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Education for All Coordination & Monitoring Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) Teacher Education for Quality Education Education in Emergencies and Disaster Risk Management Other Inventions

Mobile Literacy Programme

Mobilink, UNESCO to use mobile phones to increase access to literacy A World First in Pakistan Islamabad, May 21, 2009: Mobilink, Pakistan's market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding, today signed an innovative Partnership Agreement with United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for provision of literacy to adolescent girls using mobile phones. The use of mobile phones to facilitate literacy in Pakistan will be the first such use anywhere in the world. More

Latest Events & Publications

EFA - Global Monitoring Report 2010
Reaching the marginalized Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftershock of the global economic downturn. The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, released on 19 January, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right to education.
The Report examines who these children are and why they are being left behind, and shows that the cost of providing Education for All is much higher than previously estimated. The report looks at concrete solutions for making sure that no children are excluded from schooling. Full report
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Consutlation with Parliamentarians EFA in PAKISTAN

Parliamentarians can play a key role in the formulation and enforcement of policies and reforms for socio-economic development in a society. UNESCO has been working with the parliamentarians at national and international levels, to mobilize their support for the achievement of Education For All goals. More