The international community within the UN framework elaborated the six Education For All (EFA) Goals, which include the Millennium Development Goals and draw peculiar attention on literacy and women access to education.  The six EFA are the following:

•  Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
  
  
•  Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality.
  
  
• Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes.
  
  
•  Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.
  
  
•  Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
  
  
•  Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.

Thus, each state or nation is encouraged to recognise the right of the child to education with a view of achieving this right progressively on the basis of equal opportunity. States should endeavour to make primary education compulsory and available to all. They should encourage the development of different forms of secondary education, including general and vocational education, making them available and accessible to every child.

Africa 70 projects aimed to enforce and assist the local community to improve (and often to help re-establish) the education sector in Somalia, which was heavily affected by the war and is still lacking in facilities and resources. Indeed, the projects were implemented to provide access to quality primary education to all eligible children in Bosaso, Halula and Kandala districts of Puntland and Berbera and Sheik districts of Somaliland.