global initiative on out-of-school children : all children in school by 2015
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS) launched the joint Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children in 2010 to accelerate efforts towards the goal of universal primary education by 2015. The goal of the Initiative is to achieve a breakthrough in reducing the number of out-of-school children. A total of 61 million primary school-age children were out of school in 2010. This brief report presents the challenge and goal of the Out-of-School Children Initiative (OOSCI), along with a chart organized by region and country presenting statistics obtained from survey data and administrative data. (ERIC)