A recent UNICEF publication, "Progress for Children", reporting on progress made on primary education, shows that the current rate of progress in Nigeria is too slow to achieve gender parity by end 2005 and universal primary education by 2015, the target dates for Nigeria's achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Teams of "auditors", stars from across the group, conduct annual surveys of selected companies, reporting on progress and suggesting lessons to learn.The group embraced globalisation.
The report had said that "headline reporting on progress does not make this lack of confidence clear to the reader, potentially allowing them to, incorrectly, infer the reported results as unequivocal, established fact".
Richard M Kavuma, the award-winning Ugandan journalist who spends two weeks each month in Katine, reporting on progress for the Guardian, told the meeting that he sometimes felt caught in the middle and has made a conscious decision to "stay away from the blog", reporting just the facts, rather than offering opinion.
As well as the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progress.
Departments were responsible for establishing in-house WHP vision, strategies and action plans, and for reporting on progress.
