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E. Dakar Framework for Action - Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments, 2000.

2.8 In 2000 a decade after the EFA Declaration 1990, the international community met again at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal and agreed on the Dakar Framework for Action - Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments (2000), which apart from reaffirming the commitment to achieve Education for All by the year 2015 identified six key measurable education goals to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.

Some of the goals affecting children are - expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, providing access to complete, free and compulsory primary education for all, improving all aspects of the quality of education and eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education and achieving gender equality in education.