The World Education Forum is a premium body comprising representatives of major organisations involved in education and related activities across the world. Major organisations involved in the forum include: UNESCO

UNESCO

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, and the World Bank

World Bank

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, and the Asian Development Bank

Asian Development Bank

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. The World Education Forum also involves representatives from governments and education departments across the world. The World Education Forum (Dakar

Dakar

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, Senegal

Senegal

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, April 2000) adopted the Dakar Framework for Action reaffirming the commitment to achieving Education for All by the year 2015 and entrusted UNESCO with the overall responsibility of co-ordinating and significant international players in this work.