Transcript Education in the OAS

Report of the Technical Secretariat to
the Interamerican Committee on
Education
Lenore Yaffee Garcia, Head
Education and Culture Division
Office of Education, Science and Technology
V Meeting of the Authorities and Executive Committee of the Inter-American
Committee on Education
Washington, D.C., November 9-10, 2005
Presentation Outline
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Overview of Meeting and Documents
Background: Summits, Ministerials, CIE
Technical Secretariat (OEST)
Accomplishments and Challenges
Resources (2005 Education Subfund
Budget)
Summits of the Americas
Organization of
American States
• Set hemispheric priorities for
34 member states
• Supports political dialogue
and partnership for
development activities
Ministerial Meetings
• Inform political dialogue with
technical knowledge
Inter-American
Committees
• Help to translate the informed
dialogue into concrete
cooperation strategies
Horizontal Cooperation
Mechanisms
• Tools to engage in
cooperation across
governments and with int’l.
organizations, civil society
Summit Goals
"... We (governments)…reiterate the
commitment to assure, by 2010, universal
access to and completion of a quality
primary education for 100% of children,
and access for at least 75% of young
people to quality secondary education –
with ever greater percentages of young
people finishing secondary school --, and
we assume responsibility for offering
lifelong learning opportunities to the
general population.“ --Santiago Summit Plan of
Action
Interamerican Committee on Education:
created at 2003 Mexico City Ministerial
Who: A representative of each Education Ministry,
designated by the Minister
Purpose:
• Advance inter-American dialogue on education
• Follow up on Summit mandates and ensure that
commitments of Education Ministers Meetings
materialize into concrete actions
• Serve as breeding ground for ideas and
proposals
• Prepare future Ministerial meetings
• Define funding priorities
• Serve as a voice for the education sector in
policy development and execution within OAS
Office of Education, Science and
Technology (OEST)
• Promote continuous communication among Ministries
through CIE representatives (translation to maximize
exchange)
• Promote horizontal cooperation
– In Person (Knowledge Sharing Seminars)
– Virtually (Websites, Virtual Forums, On-line Surveys)
• Institutional memory and continuity
• Link between CIE and political authorities; international
and civil society organizations
• Technical assistance to projects
• In sum: YOUR technical secretariat
CONARED: Sharing Knowledge in a horizontal manner
The creation of this unique space within the OAS was developed as an
alternative to the traditional vision that there is one best practice that works
equally well for all circumstances. Instead, the OAS method reviews and jointly
constructs experiences and models. Hence, all parties offer and receive
experiences with the understanding that all countries have something to
share and something to learn from the other member States.
Communicating via the Web
OEST:
http://www.oest.oas.org/
CIE:
http://www.oas.org/udse/espanol/
cpo_cie.html
PRIE Website
PRIE Website
www.prie.oas.org
Regional Education Indicators
Project
Knowledge Sharing in Citizenship
Competencies
Workshop and Online Forum, Bogotá, Colombia (April
2005)
www.oest.oas.org/colombia
Ready to Learn
Knowledge Sharing in Early Childhood
Development
Virtual Forums
• A space to get information and give
feedback on a topic of common
interest.
http://www.oas.org/udse/espanol/cpo_educ_
foros.html
Opportunities
• Major attention to education in IV Summit
• Significant momentum from IV Ministerial
• Energy around:
– Social Charter
– Possible new priorities (e.g., education for
democracy)
• Knowledge sharing tools
• Resources from subfund and partners
Challenges
• Proliferation of mandates, priorities
(How to choose?)
• How to obtain active country participation
• Limited human and organizational
resources
• Risk of duplicating efforts
• How to demonstrate what works?
• Financial resources
Thank You!
Office of Education, Science and
Technology (OEST)
Executive Secretariat of Integral
Development (SEDI)
http://www.oest.oas.org