Education for All

- is an international initiative first launched in 1990 to bring the benefits of education to “every citizen in every
society.”
- UNESCO developed Education for All (EFA) in 1990 to establish goals for universal education for children by 2015.
- means access for all

Global Goals of Education for All

In 2000, the Philippines, as a reaffirmation of the vision set in the 1990 World Declaration, committed itself to the
following EFA 2015 Goals at the World Education Forum in Dakar:

Goal 1: Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable
and disadvantaged children;

Goal 2: Ensure that by 2015, all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging
to ethnic minorities, have access to complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality;

Goal 3: Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to
appropriate learning and life skills programs;

Goal 4: Achieve a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2105, especially for women and equitable
access to basic and continuing education for all adults;

Goal 5: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2015, with focus on ensuring girls full
and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality; and

Goal 6: Improve every aspect of the quality of education, and ensure their excellence so that recognized and
measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.

Central Goals of Education for all 2015 Plan

Though the government officially approved the Philippine EFA 2015 Plan only in 2006, it was already used by the
DepEd as its overall planning and policy framework as early as 2003 and was already integrated in the formulation and
updating of the MTPDP 2001-04 and 2005-2010. Instead of six target dimensions as advanced by global EFA, the
Philippines grouped them into four component objectives when it considered the local situation, all geared towards the
overall goal of providing basic competencies to everyone to achieve functional literacy by 2015. This will be done through
four component objectives (as against the six of global EFA), namely:

a. Universal coverage of out-of-school youth and adults in the provision of learning needs;

b. Universal school participation and total elimination of drop-outs and repetition in Grades 1 to 3;

c. Universal completion of full cycle of basic education schooling with satisfactory achievement levels by all at
every grade or year; and

d. Commitment by all Philippine communities to the attainment of basic education competencies for all –
Education for All by All.

To attain the above goals, nine urgent and critical tasks were formulated. The six production tasks will hopefully
yield the desired educational outcomes while the three enabling tasks will be necessary to sustain effective
implementation of the production aspects. These tasks are enumerated below:
 Production Tasks

a. Better Schools: Make every school continuously perform better;

b. Early Childhood Care and Development: Make expansion of coverage yield more EFA benefits; c.
Alternative Learning System: Transform non-formal and informal interventions into an alternative learning system
yielding more EFA benefits;

d. Teachers: Promote practice of high quality teaching;

e. Longer Cycle: Adopt a 12-year program for formal basic education - Two more years added, one each
for elementary and high school, to the existing 10-year basic education schooling;

f. Accelerate articulation, enrichment and development of the basic education curriculum in the context
of the pillars of new functional literacy;

Enabling Task

g. Funding: Provide adequate and stable public funding for country-wide attainment of EFA goals.
Adoption of funding framework for basic education that combines the national and local government funding to
support the most cost-effective local efforts to attain quality outcomes in every locality across the whole country;

h. Governance: Create a network of community-based groups for local attainment of EFA goals. A
knowledge-based movement which reach, engage and organize persons in each locality to form a nationwide
network of multi-sectoral groups advocating and supporting attainment of EFA goals in their respective localities;
and

i. Monitor progress in efforts towards attainment of EFA goals. Of particular importance is the
development and implementation of indicators of “quality education”.

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