inc_ensure-inclusive-and-equitable.htm

"Ensure that Opportunities for life-long and social learning for sustainable living and living with risk and change are reflected in adult, community, non-formal and informal learning environments."<Br>
"Education programs – particularly in non-formal settings – and 
when widely accessible to women and girls have 
broad positive effects. These include beneficial effects 
on family planning and mortality, social equality, economic 
vitality and entrepreneurship and lifting people 
out of poverty, food security, improved health, social 
coherence and political stability, and better natural 
resource management in developing countries." -<a href="http://www.philosophy.ceu.hu/sites/default/files/publications/sdg-report.pdf">source</a> (page 29)
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" Despite rapid population growth, the number of primary school age out-of-school children dropped by 42 per cent between 2000 and 2012, with the number for girls seeing an even greater drop of 47 per cent. The number of out-of-school adolescents also reduced by 31 per cent between 1999 and 2011; while during the same period, the pre-primary education gross enrolment ratio increased from 33 to 50 per cent."
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"The poor quality of education at the primary level has resulted in some 250 million children leaving school without learning to read, write or count, while an estimated 782 million adults, 64 per cent of whom are women, still lack basic reading and writing skills."
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 -<A href="http://unchronicle.un.org/article/goal-4-education-post-2015-sustainable-development-agenda/">source</a>