Ensuring universal primary education for children

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Industrialized countries provide near or completely universal primary education for children.

In 2001, the Sialkot district of Pakistan announced it was the first in Asia to achieve 100% enrolment of 5-7 years olds in schools. This is complementary to the various steps the government has taken for elimination of child labour from country's industrial sector.

1. Providing universal access to education
2. Expanding schooling
3. Expanding childhood schooling options
4. Ensuring resource access
5. Educating young people
6. Creating

1. Preparing new primary students
2. Improving primary education
3. Expanding educational opportunities for all children
4. Encouraging expanded school enrolment
5. Educating street children

1. Reducing population growth
2. Reducing individual fertility
3. Initiating post-primary schooling
4. Improving basic education for the poor
5. Improving access of girls to basic education
6. Enabling poor to achieve sustainable livelihood

1. Teaching primary school educators
2. Providing educational materials for children
3. Giving priority in education budgets to primary education
4. Financing education
5. Erecting primary school facility
6. Creating primary school councils
7. Creating child-friendly societies

1. Denying right to free primary education
2. Abstaining from preparatory education

1. Reducing cost of education

1. Lack of emphasis on basic education
2. Insufficient primary education
3. Inadequate education for nomadic children
4. Illiteracy
5. Denial of right to education
6. Decline in government expenditure on primary education

1. Poverty
2. Overeducation
3. Education