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Education

Millennium Development Goal 2      Achieve universal primary education Target: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Indicators: Net enrollment ratio in primary education Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 Literacy rate of 15 – 24 year olds

Two of the MDGs are related to educaion, namely achieving universal primary education (Goal 2) and promoting gender equality and empower women (Goal 3).

The literacy rate has significantly increased over the last 10 years. In rural areas, literacy rate increased from 18% to 31% in the same period. The gap between male and female however is still enormous. At national level, school enollement rate has increased to 74% in 2004, compared to 37% in 1996.

 

Indicator	Gender
Literacy rate	Male	49.9
	Female	26.6
Primary school enrollement	Male	80.4
	Female	67.6
Seconday school enollement	Male	28.3
	Female	17.9
Source: Welfare Monitoring Survey, 2004

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Millennium development Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education p referably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015.
Indicators
	Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
	Ratio of literate females to males of 15 – 24 year olds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related documents
	UN Millennium Project, Report of the Task Force on Education and Gender