In a joint briefing paper prior to the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, the organisations highlighted progress made in the education sector and the many difficulties that constituted a threat to continued progress.
More resources must be spent on basic educationto enroll the 3.5 million children who are out of school, the NGOs stressed, calling for focus on literacy programmes. In Afghanistan, with one of the highest illiteracy rates, budget for literacy programmes decreased by 35 percent last year.
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