Press Release: High-level Conference announces new commitments for education in developing countries

Rich country donors, international organizations and civil society leaders underlined the urgent need for donors to deliver on their promises to educate all the world's children by 2015 and announced a number of new funding commitments on 7 May 2007. Louis Michel, Gordon Brown and Paul Wolfowitz today convened a high-level conference in Brussels in order to accelerate progress towards the education Millennium Development Goal (MDG) that all children complete primary education by 2015. The conference heard of significant progress by developing countries in preparing ten-year plans to achieve universal primary education.