As part of a broad coalition of civil society groups Initiative Africa is committed to achieving six specific education goals:

# Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

# Ensure that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, those in difficult circumstances, and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete, free, and compulsory primary education of good quality.

# Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs.

# Achieve a 50 % improvement in adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.

# Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieve gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.

The aim is to raise awareness of the local and global environment. The program focuses on student and teacher training which generates action to create a better environment for themselves and future generations. The program’s final goal is to include environmental as an integral part of education, that it should not be taught as an individual subject, but instead, integrated into all subjects. In theory this sounds adequate, but the obstacle is that there is no training provided for teachers to first learn, and then afterward to transmit this knowledge. The IA program is not only for the children, but for the teachers as well. A whole generation of teachers is being exposed to new information and experiences, which are then passed on to the next generation of teachers. This transfer of information allows the program to perpetuate itself.