High Level Group Meeting

Some 29 delegates including representatives from UN Agencies, Ministers of Education and civil society leaders attended the High-Level Group Meeting on Education for All held in Paris. Its main objective was to come up with concrete measures to accelerate the EFA process.
[ Read the report drafted by UNESCO at the meeting. ]

G8 Summit
In the Genoa G8 Summit the International Secretariat in conjunction with a number of Global March coordinators, distributed a press release in five languages, addressing the importance of education and demanding a substantial allocation of funds to be used for the education of all children.
[ To have more information click at the official website of Genoa Summit Meeting 2001. ]

Meeting of the World Bank-IMF Development Committee
As part of the Global Campaign for Education, the Global March was involved in lobbying for debt-for-education swaps and other policies to promote education.

The Second Global Action Week
The Global Campaign for Education and the Global March held the second ever Action Week for Education. It was a critical event for mobilising public pressure for urgent action for education.

The World Conference on Education
The Global March Against Child Labour on behalf of the Global Campaign hosted the World Congress on Education at New Delhi, India. The World Congress had two major sessions: a Public Forum on February 13, 2001, which had some 300 guests from around the world and an internal GCE Congress. It was the first meeting of civil society leaders from around the world exclusively on the issue of education.