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the vision of the World Declaration on Education for All（Jomtien 1990）, supportedby the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rightsof the Child, are striking examples of support. The international community hasregularly called for basic education throughout the 1990s. The challenge now is toencourage nation states to deliver on these commitments. 20 Methodologies for raisingthe required resources and putting together an umbrella organisation are indicatedin the World Education Forum Declaration at Dakar, 21 Agenda 21: Basis of Action（onEducation）22 and UNSG Kofi Annan’s“We the Peoples”23 . Indeed, if we can dream itwe can do itAs an aside such a project will generate employment in the rural areas of morethan 6 million teachers, 600000 supervisors and about 15000 managers over a periodof time.What the UN can doThe proposal, as outlined above, would require the good offices of the UnitedNations. A proposed action plan could be as follows:Step 1. The Economic and Social Council drafts an approach paper conceptualisingthe formation of a Global Education Trust under the provisions of Chapter IX Article59 24 of the UN Charter.（The GET could be on the lines suggested in this paper andmodified by the greater wisdom of the UNICEF）.10820 Education For All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments, From the“Text adopted by the World EducationForum”, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000.Notably at the World Summit for Children（1990）, the Conference onEnvironment and Development（1992）, the World Conference on Human Rights（1993）, the World Conference onSpecial Needs Education: Access and Quality（1994）, the International Conference on Population and Development（1994）, the World Summit for Social Development（1995）, the Fourth World Conference on Women（1995）, theMid-Term Meeting of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All（1996）, the Fifth InternationalConferenceonAdultEducation（1997）,andtheInternationalConferenceonChildLabour（1997）.21 Ibid., members pledge to“mobilize strong national and international political commitment for education for all,developnationalactionplansandenhancesignificantlyinvestmentinbasiceducation”.22 Some of the suggestions are:（i）obtaining additional funds from private donors concentrating on the poorestcountries, and those with rates of literacy below 40 per cent;（ii）Encouraging twinning of universities indevelopedanddevelopingcountries.23 We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century”states that“By 2015, all children mustcomplete primary schooling, with equal opportunities for both genders at all levels of education. And ways must befoundtoprovideyoungpeoplewithdecentwork.”24 Art 59 reads“The organization shall, where appropriate, initiate negotiations among the slates concerned for thecreation of any new specialized agencies required for the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in Art 55”.