Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Indicators

Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

• 2.1 Net enrollment ratio in primary education
• 2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary
• 2.3 Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men

In almost all regions, the net enrolment ratio in 2006 exceeded 90 per cent, and many countries were close to achieving universal primary enrolment.

The number of children of primary school age who were out of school fell from 103 million in 1999 to 73 million in 2006, despite an overall increase in the number of children in this age group.

These successes underscore that much can be accomplished with the political will of governments and with adequate support from development partners.

MDG 2 Solutions:

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Computers: Hand cranked computers for learning from a distance so children from the most impoverished places have access to education. see video

Room To Read: Partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality education by establishing libraries, constructing schools, and providing educators. see video

SEWA Nepal: Providing civil institutions, parents and individuals with emotional literacy education.

INVENEO:  Provides people at the local level with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) systems thereby empowering a means for them to prosper from the global marketplace of goods and ideas, get educated, and through telemedicine improves a number a health issues.  See Video: CNN Gobal Challenges

 'Back to School?' - the worst places to be a school child

20 September 2010 ~ The Global Campaign for Education today launched their report 'Back to School?' of the worst places to be a school child in 2010. Somalia and Haiti have topped a list of the world’s worst places to be a school child as a new report from the Global Campaign for Education, backed by organisations including Education International, Oxfam, Plan, Save the Children and VSO warned that poor countries are teetering on the brink of an education crisis with the growth in access to education now stalling.

The agencies, which are part of the Global Campaign for Education who authored the report shows how, despite promises from leaders across the world, chronic under investment in education means that 69 million children are still out of school.