Attachments
Santiago, Chile
Preamble
1. The Ministers of Education and high-ranking authorities representing the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, gathered in Santiago, Chile, on January 25 and 26, 2024, express our gratitude to the Ministry of Education of Chile, UNESCO, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), UNICEF, and collaborating institutions, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Santa María Foundation, among others for organizing this meeting, which marks a milestone in cooperation for the reactivation, recovery, and educational transformation of the region.
2. We recognize, renew, and reaffirm our commitments to the agreements established in the I Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean (Buenos Aires, 2017), which outlined the regional educational vision for 2030 and reiterated our commitment to SDG 4. Likewise, we reaffirm the decisions made in the II Regional Meeting (Cochabamba, 2018), where educational quality, equity, inclusion, teaching staff, and lifelong learning were prioritized. Furthermore, we confirm the commitments made in the III Regional Meeting (Buenos Aires, 2022), aiming to deepen our efforts to drive educational reactivation, recovery, and transformation as accelerators for achieving the goals of SDG 4.
3. We congratulate the approval of the Roadmap for the Regional Coordination Mechanism for SDG 4, as well as its Work Plan for the period 2022-2025 by the Regional Steering Committee (RSC) of SDG 4.
4. We appreciate the efforts of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Colombia, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Argentina, and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI) during the period in which they represented the Latin American and Caribbean region in the High-Level Steering Committee of SDG 4-Education 2030.
5. We celebrate the election of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Chile, as well as the re-election of the OEI, to represent the Latin American and Caribbean region in the High-Level Steering Committee of SDG 4-Education 2030 for the biennium 2024-2025. Additionally, we highlight that the President of the Republic of Chile, S.E. Gabriel Boric Font, has assumed the co-chairmanship of the Committee for the mentioned biennium.