In 2007, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education produced the first Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education, Including the Excluded. It provided information about Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education( MTB MLE), especially for school age children, as a necessary response to the EFA call for action in 2000.
However, even as the first Advocacy Kit was being developed, it was clear that the EFA movement was moving too slowly. This was confirmed by an assessment of progress in 2010, which found that countries were not likely to achieve EFA goals by the target date of 2015.
In September 2015, in a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, representatives from 193 nations set a new course of action when they pledged to support the“ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The Agenda calls on all countries to work together to achieve seventeen Sustainable Development Goals( SDGs) over the next fifteen years. 2
NO POVERTY |
ZERO HUNGER |
GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING |
QUALITY EDUCATION |
GENDER EQUALITY |
CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION |
AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY |
DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH |
INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE |
REDUCED INEQUALITIES |
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES |
RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION |
CLIMATE ACTION |
LIFE BELOW WATER |
LIFE ON LAND |
PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS |
PARTNERSHIPS
FOR THE GOALS
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MTB MLE RESOURCE KIT Including the Excluded: Promoting Multilingual Education
Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals( SDGs).
Goal 4, which is to“ Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning”, makes the point that
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’ s lives and sustainable development. Major progress has been made towards increasing access to education at all levels and increasing enrolment rates in schools particularly for women and girls. Basic literacy skills have improved tremendously, yet bolder efforts are needed to make even greater strides for achieving universal education goals( United Nations, 2015).
2 http:// www. un. org / sustainabledevelopment / sustainable-development-goals /
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