Calendar of Events/Meetings (EFA + major events)

2005-2006

Date /

Meeting

/ Objectives / Organizer/Contact / Venue
January 2005
2-5 / International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement: Radical Innovation in Education / Barcelona, Spain
7-10 / Education for All (EFA) Southern Africa Conference
/ World Education, OSISA and UNESCO / Johannesburg, South Africa
17 / Submission of the Report on the UN Millennium Project to the UN SG
21 / Commonwealth Round Table on Quality / London, UK
24-25 / Task Force on Global Mapping Exercise / UNESCO / Paris, France
24-31 / 4th African Union Summit / Abuja, Nigeria
26-30 / World Economic Forum / PPP / The World Economic Forum / Davos, Switzerland
26-31 / World Social Forum / Porto Alegre, Brazil
31/01 – 04/02 / First World Literacy Congress / Havana, Cuba
February
7-10 / EFA South Africa Conference: “Joining Hands and Taking Action for EFA” / Johannesburg, South Africa
28 / Calling Higher Education to a Higher Calling / Georgetown University / Washington, USA
28/02-11/03 / Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action / The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) / New York, USA
28/02 – 01/03 (Technical meeting)
02/03 (HLFII) / Second High Level Forum (HLF II) on Harmonisation and Enhanced Effectiveness for Development Aid / To follow-up on the Rome Declaration and the Monterrey Conference / Jointly organised by OECD/DAC, the Multilateral Development Banks and the United Nations Development Group. Sponsored by IMF and multilateral institutions. / Paris, France
March
1 Afternoon / DESD Launch / NY
10 / Launch of French GMR / GMR Team/UNESCO / Paris, France
11 / Tony Blair’s Launch of Africa Commission report. / London, UK
16-17 / Preparatory meeting for ECOSOC 2005 High-Level Segment on MDGs / UN, New York
17-18 / The EFA-FTI Technical Meeting / London, UK
18 (Afternoon) ? / Sherpa meeting / To prepare the 5th EFA HLG meeting
(Beijing, 28-30/11/05) / London, UK
22-26 / CIES Stanford University: Beyond Dichotomies / California, USA
31 / DG’s Information Meeting with Permanent Delegations on EFA / To give overview of the EXB document on UNESCO’s strategy and implementation plans for EFA (1005-15) / UNESCO / Paris, France
31/03 – 2/04 / Global Conference on Education Research in Developing Countries / Prague, Czech Republic
April
2-5 / European Regional Meeting on Literacy
/ IIEP / Lyon, France
4-5 / Meeting EFA Goals through Teacher Policy and Teacher Education / UNESCO / Paris, France
5-6 / CIS Education Minister's Conference / Minsk
8-11 / Meeting of the African Union for Education Ministers / 8-9 Expert meeting
10-11 Conference of ministers / African Union / Algeria
12-28 / UNESCO Executive Board- 171st Session / UNESCO / Paris, France
24-30 / EFA Week: Educate to eradicate poverty / Global Campaign for Education and UNESCO
25 / Inauguration of EFA Week by DG
World Bank Spring Meetings / World Bank/IMF / Washington, D.C., USA
28-29 / Second Round Table on Public-Private Partnership in Education / UNESCO & The World Economic Forum / Paris, France
May
17-20 / World Forum on Early Care and Education / www.WorldForum2005.com, / Montreal, Canada
20-21 / Summit of South-East European Heads of State or Government / Varna, Bulgaria
Late / South-Asian Mnister’s EFA Forum / Dhaka, Bangladesh
30/05- 03/06 / The 3rd African International Conference on Early Childhood Development on “Moving Early Childhood Development Forward in Africa” / Working Group on Early Childhood Development of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA-WGECD). / Accra, Ghana
30/05 – 01/06 / III International Conference on Violence in Schools: Violence in school, public policies and social inclusion of young people. / UNESCO Brasilia / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June
Africa Summit
29/06 – 01/07 / ECOSOC High-Level Segment / UN, New York
July
1 / UK takes over the presidency of the EU
4-5 / Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union / Khartoum, Sudan
6-8 / G8 Summit / Gleneagles, Scotland, UK
19-21 / Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on EFA / UNESCO (ED/EFA) / HQs, France
August
Summit of the Southern African Development Community / Heads of Southern African states gather / Gaborone, Botswana
Meeting of Heads of Pacific Island States / Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
September
8 / International Literacy Day
Launch of the Human Development Report / UNDP
Launch of the World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development / World Bank
13-29 / UNESCO Executive Board- 172nd Session / UNESCO / Paris
14 - 16 / UN Special Session on the Millennium Declaration. / UN / New York, USA
13-15 / The UKFIET Oxford Conference on Education and Development / Oxford University / Oxford, UK
World Bank and IMF annual meetings / World bank/IMF / Washington, D.C., USA
??? / UNGEI meeting
October
5 / World Teachers’ Day
3-21 / UNESCO General Conference + 60th Anniversary celebration / UNESCO / Paris, France
7-8 / The First Ministerial Round Table on Education for All / UNESCO / Paris, France
???? / 2005 UN High Level Dialogue on Financing for Development / PPP
14-15 / The Second Ministerial Round Table (Theme to be decided) / UNESCO / Paris, France
?? / International Launch of EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 / GMR/UNESCO / London, UK ??
November
16-18 / The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) / http://www.itu.int/wsis/ / Tunis, Tunisia
28-30 / Fifth Meeting of the High Level Group on EFA / UNESCO (ED/EFA) / Beijing, China
30/11-01/12 ? / FTI Partnership Meeting / Beijing, China
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit / 21 heads of state meet / Busan, South Korea
The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting / Valletta, Malta
Fourth Summit of the Americans / Leaders of 34 member-states meet / Buenos Aires, Argentina
December
1 / World AIDS day
CCNGO Annual meeting
20 / UN day for South-South Cooperation
2006
January
7-10 / Education for All (EFA) Southern Africa Conference
/ Co-hosted by World Education, OSISA and UNESCO / Johannesburg, South Africa
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting / The World Economic Forum / Davos, Switzerland
World Social Forum
13-15 February / Sixth E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting / UNESCO / Mexico
July / Seventh Working Group on EFA / UNESCO / Paris, France
G8 Summit
November / Sixth Meeting of the High-Level Group on EFA / UNESCO / Cairo, Egypt
December / CCNGOs 2005 Annual Meeting
20 December / UN day for South-South Cooperation
2007
Early 2007 / MINEDAF IX
EFA Mid-Term Review (2007-2008)

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