Meeting programme

8:00-9:00
Registration of Participants 

9:00-10:00
OPENING

Master of Ceremonies: Valtencir Mendes, Head of Education at UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Santiago

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC)
• Alberto Van Klaveren, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile
• Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
• Pablo Bartol, Social and Human Development Manager, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF)
• Jaime Saavedra, Human Development Regional Director for LACM, World Bank
• Anne-Claire Dufay, Deputy Regional Director, UNICEF
• Felipe Gómez Gallo, Latin America and the Caribbean Youth Representative, UNESCO Youth and Student Network for SDG 4.
• Claudia Uribe, Director and Representative to Chile of Regional Multisectoral Office of UNESCO Santiago
• Nicolás Cataldo, Ministry of Education of Chile

10:00-10:20
Photo and coffee break

INTRODUCTION

10.20-10.35

Keynote speech
Educational reactivation, recovery and transformation as drivers of SDG 4 in LAC
Leonardo Garnier, Professor at the University of Costa Rica, Former Minister of Education and Economic Policy

10.35-10.40

• From commitments to action for educational transformation 
  Lily Neyestani-Hailu
  Chief of Section for Global SDG4 Cooperation  

SESSION 1: FINANCING

10.40-10:55

• Inputs for discussion
  “The challenge of financial sustainability within educational systems in Latin America and the Caribbean”
  Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division, ECLAC

10.55-11:30

• Panel of ministers of Education and ministers of Finance: Presentations of experiences
  Modera: Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division, ECLAC
  Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Paraguay and Saint Lucia

11:30-11:35

• Comments: Nelsy Lizarazo, General Coordinator of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education, (CLADE), Vice-Chair of the Global Campaign for Education and CCNGO Representative to the SDG4 HLSC Sherpa Group

11.35-12:00

• Open dialogue of ministers of Education and ministers of Finance (PART 1) 
  Chairs the dialogue: Nicolás Cataldo, Ministry of Education of Chile

12:00-12:10

• Inputs for discussion
  “Efficiency and equity of education spending in Latin America and the Caribbean”
  Mercedes Mateo, Chief of Education at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

12:10-12:55

• Open dialogue of ministers of Education and ministers of Finance (PART 2)
  Chairs the dialogue: Nicolas Cataldo, Ministry of Education of Chile

12:55-13:00

• Conclusion
  Alberto Arenas de Mesa, ECLAC, and Mercedes Mateo, IDB

13:00-13:40

• Ministers meet with civil society and teachers 
  Initial words: Pablo Fraser and Denisse Gelber, UNESCO
  Moderators: Mendy Aráuz Silva, Ministry of Education of Nicaragua, and Henri Ori, Ministry of Education of Suriname
  Participants: Geisha Bonilla, Global Teacher Prize 2023 Finalist, and Marcela Browne, Steering Committee (CLADE)

13:40 – 15:10 
LUNCH

15:10-15:15

• Moderators 
  Jaime Saavedra, Regional Director of Human Development for LAC, The World Bank
  Anne-Claire Dufay, Deputy Regional Director UNICEF

SESSION 2: REACTIVATION AND RECOVERY

Roundtable – Dialogue of ministers

15:15-15:25

• Inputs for discussion
  "The urgent need for educational reactivation and recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean" 
  “Preventing and reducing school dropout in Latin America and the Caribbean”
  Alejandro Vera and Carlos Henríquez, Education specialists, UNESCO

15:25-15:30

• Comment : Nilse Ryman, Regional Manager, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 

15:30-16:15

• Dialogue of ministers: Countries’ experiences (PART 1)
  Chairs the dialogue: Alejandra Arratia Martínez, Undersecretary of Education of Chile
  Antigua and Barbuda, Brazil, Chile, Colombia*, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  *Video
  • What is the learning recovery policy being applied in your country and what is the scale of implementation?
  • What results or lessons have been obtained that could be accelerated/scaled up?   
  • On what you have done, what learnings or aspects do you consider important for the construction of a regional recovery framework?

16:15-16:20

• Comments: Jaime Saavedra, World Bank, and Anne-Claire Dufay, UNICEF

16:20-17:40

• Open dialogue of ministers: Comments on experiences (PART 2)
  Chairs the dialogue: Alejandra Arratia Martínez, Undersecretary of Education of Chile
  • Comments on the experiences from the learnings or lessons learned to accelerate and scale up. 
  • What areas should a regional framework for reactivation and recovery contemplate? 
  • What actions would be relevant for the regional agenda and framework for reactivation and recovery?

17:40-17:45

• Conclusions and commitment to action on basic learning and its reactivation and recovery
  Jaime Saavedra, World Bank, and Anne-Claire Dufay, UNICEF 

17:45-18:45
THEMATIC EVENTS

19:00 – 21:00 
WELCOME COCKTAIL
*With invitation from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance of Chile

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8:00-9:00
Registro de participantes.

Master of Ceremonies: Valtencir Mendes, Chief of Education, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Santiago

SESSION 3: TRANSFORMATION
 

09:00-10:00

• "Educational Exhibition": Experiences of countries in educational reactivation, recovery, and transformation. 
  Anguilla, Bolivia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Suriname. (Educational Reactivation and Recovery)
  Curaçao, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. (Educational Transformation)
   

10:00-10:05

• Moderator: Alexander Leicht, Director of UNESCO's Multisectoral Regional Office in San José

Roundtable – Dialogue of ministers

10:05-10:15

• Inputs for discussion
  "Strategies for transforming education”
  Cecilia Llambí, Senior Executive and Education Specialist, Directorate of Social Development Projects, CAF

10:15-10:20

Comments: Martín Benavides, Director of the IIEP-UNESCO and Valtencir Mendes, Chief of Education, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Santiago

10:20-11:00

• Dialogue of ministers: Countries’ experiences (PART 1)
  Chairs the dialogue: Marsha Smith, Ministry of Education of Jamaica
  Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica*, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala*, Guyana, Mexico and Saint Lucia.
  *Video
  • What are the transforming policies being implemented in your country?
  • What results or learning have been achieved that could be accelerated/scaled up?
  • Based on what has been done, which lessons or aspects do you consider important for building a regional framework of educational transformation?

11:00-11:05

Comments: Marsha Smith, Minister of Education of Jamaica and Valtencir Mendes, Head of Education of the UNESCO Regional Multisectoral Office in Santiago.

11:05-12:10

• Open dialogue of ministers: Comments on the experiences and proposal (PART 2)
  Chairs the dialogue: Marsha Smith, Ministry of Education of Jamaica
  • What lessons learned or lessons considered important for the construction of a regional educational transformation framework? 
  • What areas should be included in a regional framework for educational transformation? 
  • What upcoming actions would be relevant for the regional transformation agenda and framework?

12:10-12:20

• Conclusions
  Alexander Leicht, Director of UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in San José

12:20-13:20
THEMATIC EVENTS

13.20-15:00
LUNCH

15:00-15:50

• Ministers meet with youth
  Present and moderate: Felipe Gómez, Participation Specialist, SPEED, Youth Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNESCO Youth and Student Network for SDG 4.
  Participants: regional young representatives
   

SESSION 4: CONCLUSIONS

15:50-17:50

• Discussion and agreements on the Statement of the Extraordinary Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean (Ministerial Meeting of Education - Santiago 2024).
• Statement of the Ministerial of Education - Santiago 2024

Chairs the dialogue:

• Nicolas Cataldo, Ministry of Education of Chile
• Claudia Uribe, Director and Representative to Chile, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Santiago

17:00-17:15

Coffee Break

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