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Report to the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) by its Technical Secretariat

Report to the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) by its Technical Secretariat. Lenore Yaffee-García, Director Department of Education and Culture Organization of American States III Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) October 26-27, 2006. Overview.

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Report to the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) by its Technical Secretariat

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  1. Report to the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) by its Technical Secretariat Lenore Yaffee-García, Director Department of Education and Culture Organization of American States III Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) October 26-27, 2006

  2. Overview • Political context • Role of the CIE • Mandates of the IV Ministerial and Actions of the CIE, with support from its Technical Secretariat, to respond to the mandates

  3. Summits of the Americas • Set hemispheric priorities for 34 member states Organization of American States • Supports political dialogue and partnership for development activities Ministerial Meetings • Inform political dialogue with technical knowledge • Help to translate the informed dialogue into concrete cooperation strategies Inter-American Committees • Tools to engage in cooperation across governments and with int’l. organizations, civil society Horizontal Cooperation Mechanisms

  4. Summit Goals "... We are committed to attaining the education goals of the Summits of the Americas, namely: “to promote the principles of equity, quality, relevance and efficiency at all levels of the education system and ensure, by 2010, universal access to and completion of quality primary education for all children and to quality secondary education for at least 75 percent of young people, with increasing graduation rates and lifelong learning opportunities for the general population.” --Santiago Summit Plan of Action

  5. Organization of American States Department of Education and Culture Education and the Summits of the Americas Process SUMMITS OF THE AMERICAS Set hemispheric priorities and mandates Fosters political dialogue, serves as TechnicalSecretariat Provide opportunities for policy dialogue and decisions MINISTERIAL MEETINGS ON EDUCATION OAS • Follow up on Summit and Ministerial mandates • Infuse technical knowledge • Help translate the informed dialogue into concrete cooperation strategies, with the assistance of the OAS Technical Secretariat. INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION(CIE) CIE Authorities, Executive Committee

  6. CENTRAL AMERICA (7) NORTH AMERICA (3) THE CARIBBEAN (14) THE SOUTHERN CONE (6) ANDEAN COUNTRIES (4) Guatemala -El Salvador Honduras - Nicaragua Costa Rica - Panama - Dominican Republic Canada United States Mexico CIE MEMBERS • Belize • Haiti • Jamaica • St. Lucia • St Vincent & Grenad. • Grenada • St Kitts & Nevis • Antigua & Barbuda • Dominica • Barbados • Trinidad & Tobago • Guyana • Bahamas • Suriname Chile Brasil Bolivia Argentina Paraguay Uruguay Colombia - Ecuador - Perú - Venezuela

  7. III Meeting of Ministers in Mexico Second Meeting of CIE IV Meeting of Ministers in Tobago Special Session of CIE Third Meeting of CIE Inter-American Committee on Education 2003 August First Meeting of CIE 2004 October 2005 September 2006 October

  8. CIE Authorities and Executive Committee Chair Trinidad and Tobago 1st Vice-Chair Brazil 2nd Vice-Chair Venezuela • Caribbean • Barbados • St. Lucia • Central • America • Nicaragua • Panamá • North • America • United States • Mexico • Southern • Cone • Paraguay • Argentina • Andean • Ecuador • Perú

  9. Ministerials and Interamerican Committees: Role in Development • Political Dialogue elaborated and made concrete through • Horizontal Cooperation with end results of • Human Capacity Building, • Institutional Strengthening, and • Sound Policy Making

  10. Political Dialogue: IV MinisterialTrinidad & Tobago, August 2005

  11. Meetings of CIE Authorities and Executive Committee • November 9-10, 2005 • Review Declaration and Commitments to Action from Scarborough and adopt a 2005-2007 CIE Work Plan • April 27-28, 2006 • Review progress on Work Plan and consider proposals for multilateral projects on Summit and Ministerial priorities requesting support from reserve subfund. • Telephone conferences

  12. CIE Website and Virtual Discussion Forum http://www.oas.org/udse/cie/espanol/fr_bien.html http://www.oas.org/udse/cie/ingles/fr_bien.html

  13. CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES – EDUCATION 2006 CIE Quarterly Bulletin JULY-OCTOBER 2006 SECOND EDITION • Summit Projects • Regional Project on Educational Indicators (PRIE) • Statistics Workshop for Caribbean…………………….....……………………………………..TBD • Evaluation Forum • Possible III Evaluation Forum……..….…………………………………….………..…………TBD • Hemispheric Projects • Hemispheric Project on Teachers – Sub-regional Coordinators meeting……..…......…..March 9-10 • Hemispheric Project on Secondary Ed and Competencies…………………………...….April 24-25 • Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices • Selection and Formation of Advisory Group………………………...……….….…………February • Develop Web Portal…………………………………………………………...……February – June • Advisory Board Meeting……………………………………………...………….…...…April 19-21 • Seminar on Good Practices (Mexico)………………...…………...…..………..……..….May 29-31 • Bulletin……………………………………………………………...........…quarterly (starting May) • Mapping Key Initiatives………………………………………………...….………….…….ongoing • Early Childhood Education • International Working Group, ECD and education Guidelines. Morelia Declaration……..….March • VI International Conference on Initial and Pre-School Education: Neurosciences, Sexual Development • CIE Coordination • Project Proposals received and shared…………………………………………..………….February • VI Authorities Meeting...…………..……………………………………………..…...…April 27-28 • II CIE Plenary (September)………………...…………………………………..…….late September • CIE Bulletin………………………….........…………………………….....quarterly (starting April) • VII Authorities Meeting…………………………………...…………………..November (tentative) • Horizontal Cooperation • CONARED Workshop, Teacher Preparation and Practice……………….….….……..August (tbd) • OAS Events • OAS General Assembly (Dominican Republic)……..………………….…………...……..

  14. Key Scarborough Mandates • Equity with Quality • Strengthening the Teaching Force • Early Childhood Education • Education for Democracy • Secondary Education, Workforce Prep • Literacy • Resource mobilization, political will, alliances with partners

  15. Equity with Quality • We recognize that many countries in the Western Hemisphere suffer from significant levels of income inequality. Education offers us the single best opportunity for improving the lives of the millions of people who find themselves in poverty and therefore we prioritize equity with quality. • We agree that ensuring a quality education for all citizens requires us to evaluate our efforts based on clearly defined standards and to promote accountability for results. Following on the commitment made by our heads of state at the Monterrey Summit, we agree to expand the dissemination of student assessment results and other useful information about our education systems to policy-makers, educators, families, and the general public. • Declaration of Scarborough

  16. Summit Project: PRIE (Measuring Equity, Quality)

  17. Strengthening the Teaching Force • “We recognize the fundamental role of teachers and we prioritize their professional development as a key factor for learning and the development of our societies. We therefore encourage countries to work together to ensure that mechanisms are adopted to assist developing countries in the training and retention of teachers.“ • Declaration of Scarborough

  18. INTER-AMERICAN TEACHER EDUCATOR NETWORK

  19. Early Childhood Education • We recognize the need to broaden the structure of education beginning with early childhood education, given its very positive impact on the quality of education and on the reduction of inequality. • Declaration of Scarborough

  20. Early Childhood Education

  21. Education for Democracy “We have fulfilled our commitment to create an Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices. We recognize that peace and democracy are necessary conditions for the full exercise of fundamental freedoms and for the growth and development of our nations.”Declaration of Scarborough

  22. Secondary Education, Workforce Competencies “We will increase our attention to secondary education and technical preparation for the development of employment and other key competencies relevant to the development needs of our countries, because we recognize that our greatest opportunity to create local and regional capacity for innovation, creativity, and increased productivity is a well-educated, well-informed, and democratic workforce.”--Declaration of Scarborough

  23. Hemispheric Project: Secondary Education & Workforce Competencies

  24. Literacy “We recognize the need to work on the high illiteracy rates in the countries of the region; therefore, we propose that the design of a regional literacy program be considered and we entrust the OAS with studying this possibility.” • Declaration of Scarborough

  25. AG/RES. 2204 (XXXVI-O/06)ERADICATING ILLITERACY AND FIGHTING DISEASESTHAT AFFECT INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT(Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2006) • RESOLVES: • To begin in September 2006, with a view to its conclusion in August 2007, the process of studying a program to move toward the elimination of illiteracy in the Hemisphere, taking into account successful experiences in the field; and, to that end, to instruct the General Secretariat to begin, through its relevant technical areas, a study of best practices in the member states, in order to share the results obtained. • To recommend to the national authorities in the area of education that they explore the possibility of setting a tentative date for the eradication of illiteracy in the Americas, bearing in mind the individual characteristics of each member state, in order to attain that goal as soon as possible.

  26. AG/RES. 2204 (XXXVI-O/06)ERADICATING ILLITERACY AND FIGHTING DISEASESTHAT AFFECT INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT(Continued) • To support the member states, through the technical areas of the General Secretariat with specific responsibility in the matter, in their efforts to eradicate illiteracy and to improve the quality of education, in coordination, where appropriate, with other regional or international organizations with initiatives in the area, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). • To request the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh regular session on the progress made in implementing this resolution.

  27. Mobilizing resources, political will, interagency cooperation, civil society participation

  28. International Organizations UNESCO-OREALC UNICEF Convenio Andres Bello The Commonwealth International Labor Organization (ILO) Bernard Van Leer Foundation World Links Inter-American Institute on Human Rights The World Bank Inter-American Development Bank …and others… Research Institutions National Institute for Educational Evaluation (Mexico) CIPECC (Argentina) RTI International University of Maryland Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Colombia) University of Brunel, UK University of Indiana University of Toronto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Universidad Central de Chile University of Trinidad and Tobago …and others… CIE Partners Civil Society • Inter-American Org. for Higher Educ (IOHE-OUI) • PREAL • Center for Civic Education • Asociación Conciencia, Argentina • Nueva Acrópolis • Alianza Global para la Educación en Justicia • National Center for Learning and Citizenship, USA • Human Rights Education Associates HREA, USA …and others…

  29. Thank You Very Much! The CIE Technical Secretariat www.oest.oas.org education@oas.org

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