o Effectiveness of the child right to education in Benin: 264 According to the third general census, though primary education is made compulsory by the constitution for children aged from 6 to 14 in Benin, it is far from being generalised. Indeed, in 2002 in Benin, slightly more (51.31%) of school age children (aged from 6 to 14) attend primary school, 4.4% are in high school, 3.6% have already dropped and 38.8% have never attended school. Presently, there are fewer girls who attend school compared to boys (45.3% of girls aged from 6 to 14 years against 56.9 % of boys aged from 6 to 14 years). The situation is better in the major cities (Cotonou, Porto-Novo and Parakou). The gross and net enrolment rates presented below shows an obvious under-schooling. 265 However, during the past few years, significant efforts have been deployed to ensure the application of this right. In 2014, the enrolment rate has increased, the gross enrolment rate is 122% and the net enrolment rate is 98%. Gross enrolment rate for girls increased from 84.26% in 2004 to 118.71 % in 2014. 266 Indeed, the Government of Benin has submitted on March 29, 2007, a funding request for the FAST-TRACK initiative catalytic fund, which has been approved. Four other technical and financial partners namely the French Development Agency (AFD), the Danish Cooperation (DANIDA), the German Development Bank (KfW) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have provided a complementary funding in the form of budget support. Therefore, these four technical and financial partners and the World Bank have signed with the Government of Benin a common funding arrangement on April 18, 2008, for the setting-up of the Budgetary Common Fund. 267 Generally, the fund is aimed at ensuring Education for All (EFA) by 2015, and includes the activities deemed essential of the Ten-Year Plan for the Development of Education (PDDSE) through 3 components: (i) improvement of the access, equity and retention (ii) improvement of the quality of teaching and literacy and (iii) improvement of the management of the sector. 268 The Government of Benin has negotiated and mobilised its Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs) of the FTI-FCB program covering the period from 2008 to 2013, the funding for a global cost of eighty-eight billion six hundred and one million four hundred and forty-one (88 601 441 000) francs CFA. The respective contribution for each partner to the Common Fund is: FTI (World Bank): 37 365 956 000 F CFA, AFD: 9 574 204 000 F CFA, DANIDA : 17 143 098 000 F CFA, KfW : 13 694 892 000 F CFA and Netherlands : 10 823 291 000 F CFA. 269 The resources awarded by the Technical and Financial Partners (PTF) of the FTI-FCB program are a sector-based budgetary support and complement the resources mobilised by the Government and have enabled to fund particularly activities of subsectors of pre-primary and primary education, of literacy and secondary and technical education during the period 2008-2013. 270 During this period, the major activities realised by the FTI-FCB program, for each component, are: