Education for All is a global movement seeking consensus on meeting basic learning needs for all people. Its key objectives include institutionalizing early childhood education, improving primary education quality and efficiency, eradicating illiteracy, and providing basic skills and knowledge to help adults improve their lives. Alternative delivery systems, the alternative learning system, and continuing education are some concepts related to implementing the Philippine plan of action for Education for All.

2. What is “Education for All?” Are other key concepts related to EFA and its
implementation?
“Education for All” is a global movement forming an alliance of countries
seeking a consensus on the problems and opportunities in meeting the
basic learning needs for all.
Objectives:
1.The institutionalization of early childhood care and development as a
basic service for all children in the country.
2.The improvement in the quality and efficiency of primary education.
3.The eradication of illiteracy, and
4.The provision of basic knowledge, skills and values that allows adults
and OSYs to improve the quality of their lives and increase their
opportunities to participate in the development process.

3. Other Key Concepts Related to the Implementation of the
Philippine Plan of Action on EFA and Their Meanings
Alternative Delivery Systems refer to the nontraditional modes of
instruction which can be used in both the formal and nonformal
programs.
Alternative Learning System is a parallel learning system being evolved
to provide a viable alternative to the existing formal education
structure.
Basic Education refers to education intended to meet basic learning
needs, instruction at the first or foundation level, on which subsequent
learning can be based.

4. Basic Learning Needs
 comprise the essential learning tools (such as literacy, oral
expressions, numeracy and problem solving) and the basic
learning concept ( such as knowledge, skills, values an
attitudes) required by human being to be able to survive, to
develop their full capacities, to live and work in dignity, to
participate fully in development, to improve the quality of
their lives to make informed decisions and to continue
learning.

5. Cohort Survival Rate the percentage of Grade I pupils who reach Grade
VI six years later, also refers to the percentage of pupils who reach the
next grade level the following year.
Combination Classes refers to classes with two grade levels.
Continuing Education covers all educational opportunities taking place
outside the literacy and primary educational programs, including the
enrichment of the learning environment to activate and sustain
motivation for learning.
Dropout Rate is the percentage of pupils who dropped out during the
school year and those who finish the grade within a school year but do
not enroll in the succeeding year.

6. Early Childhood Care and Development is a set of critical
development intervention approaches and activities aimed at
maximizing the pre-schoolers capacities for physical psycho-social
and intellectual development during their formative years.
Formal Education is a highly institutionalized, chronologically
graded and hierarchically structured education system, spanning
from the primary schools to the tertiary schools.
Functional Literacy refers to the ability to read and write with
comprehension, as well as to make simple arithmetical calculations
(numeracy) in an expanded sense, and the possession of minimum
skills needed to carry out simple functions in life and to interact with
others in society.

7. Graduates are pupils who complete the final grade in the education
level (Grade VI/Grade VII).
Informal Education a lifelong process of learning by which every person
acquires and accumulates knowledge, skills, attitudes and insights from
experiences at home, at work.
Integrated Projects are those that cut across development areas and
whose components are often packaged with other sectoral services to
address a broader range of basic needs.
Institutionalization is the process of integrating policies, programs and
procedures into the existing system.

8. Literacy is the ability to read and write with understanding a
simple message in any language or dialect.
Literacy Rate refers to the percentage of the population who
can read and write and understand simple messages in any
language or dialect.
Livelihood Skills Development Program provides basic
livelihood skills training. And vocational/technical skills
training.

9. Minimum Learning Competencies refer to the whole range of skills and
competencies needed to be acquired by a person if he is to participate
meaningfully and productively in his community and improve his
quality of life.
Multigrade Classes refer to classes with three or more grade levels.
Nonfomal education is any organized, systematic educational activity
carried an outside the framework of the formal system to provide
selected types of learning to a cross-section of population and across
age groups.

10. Participation rate for a given school year is the ratio of
enrollment of a given age group in a grade level to the population
of the same age group in a grade level to the population of the
same group.
Preschool means organized child learning and socialization
activities such as nursery, preparatory, and kindergarten proper
below Grade 1

11. Primary Education refers to the provision of first level instruction
to children, usually seven to twelve age group.
Primary Schooling refers to the provision of primary education
through formal schools.
School Facilities to the schoolbuildings, workshops, laboratories,
and other structures for school.
Simple Literacy refers to the ability to read and write a simple
message in ay language or dialect.
Social Mobilization is the process of generating and sustaining
active participation by all sectors at all levels of society to achieve
the goals and objectives of EFA.

12. Social Reform Agenda (SRA) is the government comprehensive
response to the grievances of the Filipino population especially the
disadvantage sectors; namely, farmers and landless workers.
Teacher-Pupil Ratio is the ratio of the number of teachers to the
total enrollment in a specific grade level.
Technology is a systematic way of designing, carrying out, and
evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of
specific objectives based on research in human learning and
communication.
Technology Transfer means the transfer of the result of basic and
applied research to the design, development, production, and
commercialism of new or improved products, services, or processes.

13. Conclusion:
Education For All (EFA) is such a great tool in making all Filipinos
become literate and educated. The goal of this program is very
beneficial especially to those Filipino who never been to school or
pursue their education in elementary and secondary level. Since it
offers practical skills intended for the purpose of creating a
livelihood, it can help the economic status of poor family Filipinos.
Hence, this program must be successfully implanted nationwide to
make our country become productive.