Girls’ Education: The girls’ education programs were based on researches and studies carried out in the 1990s in the areas traditionally resistant to girls’ education (study on the socio-economic factors affecting girls’ students and other studies). A round table conference held to discuss the issue pinpointed the starting areas such as the expansion in basic level education, especially for girls with more focus on raising awareness on the importance of education for girls through popular media, finding alternatives to provide education for girls outside schools and securing financial sources. Findings of the conference were translated to a strategy to push girls’ education in 2004. The strategy focused on implementation of a program aiming raising awareness of enrollment of children on the day of national enrollment to encourage parents to send their children to school, especially girls. School uniform and breakfast were provided free of charge in rural and remote areas. There are a number of programs and activities carried out by the Ministry of Education, including:  Annual training course for headmasters of girls’ schools.  Annual national conference on girls’ education to review performance during the year.  Regular visits to states for assessment and follow up.  Holding of the National Enrollment Day, with focus on girls and distribution of free school uniform in remote areas. To follow up and detect obstacles the Ministry issues a quarterly magazine on girls’ education. UNICEF provides 60% of the cost of girls’ education in the north and 80% in the south. Education of IDPs and Returnees: Educating IDPs is one of the challenges facing education in the Sudan. There are 320 IDPs schools accommodating a total of 179,444, including 81,161 boys and 98,283 girls. The average size of classrooms is 23-35 pupils depending on the population intensity. In some states IDPs schools work parallel to regular schools. IDPs schools depend mainly on support provided by CSOs. The schools suffer acute shortages in text books where 5 pupils share one book in average and the classrooms are not built with fixed materials. Following the signing of the CPA there were large numbers of children returnees who didn’t receive any form of education. The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with UNICEF, contemplated implementation of condensed curricula that shorten education level to 4 years to enable pupils catch up with next level in the regular education system. The project, which targets children aged 14-18, is in the stage of development and training of teachers has just started. Illiteracy eradication among Children (9-14 years): The percentage of illiterate children (aged 9-14) was 47% of the total population (2,513,278, 33% of them males -901,296- and 61% females – 1,611,982). 46