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Introduction to the National and Regional Mid-Decade Assessment 11Figure 2. DevInfo Graphs (Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education)Per cent10090807060504073❙❙100959780 80 80817552❙❙68❙56❙64❙1009593 92 939062❙54❙7199 10096 9794 94898579❙❙❙❙❙❙❙100 100989591❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙ ❙ ❙AverageMaximumMinimum3020100Papua New Guinea 2001Timor-Leste 2002 (Region)Lao PDR 2001Thailand 1998Myanmar 2003Cambodia 2003Viet Nam 2002Indonesia 2002Mongolia 1998Philippines 1999 (Region)Malaysia 1998China 2003●●presentation – facilitating the creation of tables, graphs and mapsusage – towards decision-making and programmingCapacity-building is planned through a series of sub-regional training workshops withthe objective of providing national counterparts with the necessary skills and tools forthe use of DevInfo in the EFA mid-decade assessment.Editor’s Note: During the introduction to the mid-decade assessment, several keyresource persons were invited to present on issues critical for review and considerationin the upcoming assessment.1.5 Languages in Early EducationPresenter: Jim Smith, SIL InternationalOf the 6,000 to 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, only about 300 are spokenby over 90 per cent of the world’s population. More than half of the world’s remaininglanguages are endangered, and over 60 per cent of these languages are found in theAsia and Pacific region 4 .4Paraphrased from foreword by Sheldon Shaeffer, First Language First: Community-based LiteracyProgrammes for Minority Language Contexts in Asia, UNESCO 2005.Education for All: Reaching the Unreached