45 Burundi subscribed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which, in the area of education, integrates the main points of the objectives of universal education defined in Dakar and the poverty reduction objectives. -The Government of BURUNDI has just adopted on the 6 December 2006, the Education and Training Policy Letter which reiterates the 5 priority goals, namely: 1. Attain the universal completion of the primary cycle by 2015 2. Manage in a controlled manner the flow of pupils beyond primary education 3. Improve the quality and relevance of public education 4. Guarantee an equitable educational system 5. Improved efficiency in the use of resources. A sectorial education development plan is currently under preparation and focuses on 2 priorities: Improved adequacy in terms of quantity and quality in the flow of the outgoing in the technical, professional and higher education on the one hand, and the market demands in terms of employment and transformation of Burundian society on the other. These priorities constitute the two first objectives of the education strategy. As the crisis which shook Burundi did not spare the education system, the Government had projected full enrolment for 2010, which confirmed the sectorial policy of 1999 and then that of March 2002. Furthermore, the EPT Action Plans, prepared but not implemented, projected the objective of universal education for the year 2015. They proposed the rehabilitation and construction of schools by mobilising more parents and outside partners so as to be able to erect at least one school per surveyed sector. They expressed the wish to organize a special programme for girls’ education on the one hand and the piloting of special education at the primary level for children on the other. Unfortunately for these children in difficulty no explicit policy in their favour had been defined. 17.3. The development of education and disparities according to gender Thanks to the President of the Republic’s policy of free school education in 2005, enrolment at the primary level has known a dramatic increase.