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Articles, videos, podcasts and reports about Millennium Development Goal 2

To support the ESDP, the Government launched the Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP) in 2002, which has four key components: enrolment expansion; quality improvement; capacity-building; and strengthening of institutional arrangements. 

This a crucial year for GCE. Its campaigns include the UN millennium development goal of securing a primary education for every child by 2015. The organisation's UK young ambassadors will travel to Bangladesh with the charity ActionAid to see the work that has been done and - with 57m children around the world still not in school - the barriers that remain.

Zulie shares the story of her 14-year-old sister, Afisha, whose father promised her in marriage to an older man when he could no longer afford to send her to school

This video shows a snapshot of what has been achieved so far for each Millennium Development Goal and what still needs to be done before 2015. Move through the video to find statistics for individual Millennium Development Goal.

Scroll to the bottom of the paged to find the MDG Progress Chart 2014 which presents an assessment of the regional progress towards selected key targets relating to each Goal as of June 2014.