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xivEFA Mid-Decade AssessmentMeeting Modalities/ProceedingsThe National EFA Coordinators meeting was held concurrently with the planning andcapacity-building workshop towards the preparation for the regional EFA mid-decadeassessment. In this regard, heads of statistical and planning divisions within theEducation Ministries across the region were invited to attend sessions with EFANational Coordinators. The National Coordinators also joined in the planning sessionsfor the mid-decade assessment.Plenary presentations were made about each EFA goal followed by small groupdiscussions. As part of the EFA mid-decade assessment planning, participants weredivided into peer groups – National EFA Coordinators, ECCE coordinators, educationplanners, education statisticians and international partner agencies – to discuss andidentify major issues to be assessed related to each EFA goal from technicalprofessional angles. Peer groups were given the same set of questions to guide theirdiscussions.To facilitate discussions and to identify issues from substantive cultural angles, peergroups were further broken into sub-regional groupings: South-East, East andSouth Asia. The recommendations in this report are a product of these discussionsand can serve as reference for planning and support to national assessment.Recommendations of areas for assessment and indicators to assess EFA will beconsidered in technical guidelines currently being developed. The medium forcommunication for the meeting was English.Meeting ParticipantsMeeting participants were National EFA Coordinators, MoE-nominated educationofficers, education statisticians and education planners from the 21 countriesrepresented during the meeting. Education staff from the UNESCO Asia and PacificRegional Bureau for Education, and education officers from UNESCO Field Offices inthe region also attended.Also present were regional UNESCO Institute for Statistics officers, an ECCEprogramme specialist from the UNESCO Headquarters, a representative from the EFAGlobal Monitoring Report team in Paris, and education officers from UNICEF East Asiaregion. Members of the Thematic Working Group on EFA were also present, includingrepresentatives of regional and international NGOs and donor agencies, and regionaland country level UN agencies supporting EFA initiatives. The list of participants canbe found on the Annex.UNESCO Bangkok through the Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring andStatistics (AIMS) Unit, which is the Regional Office of the UNESCO Institute forStatistics, and the Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) Unit,organized the meeting.Education for All: Reaching the Unreached