UNESCO Regional Education Programme Coordinator Paz Portales described OREALC/UNESCO Santiago’s publication Education to transform lives; goals, strategy options, and indicators as “a new effort to bring the worldwide education agenda directly to people.” The text compiles information on the Education 2030 Goals, agreed by the world’s countries at the 2015 World Education Forum, held in Incheon, Korea.

The material also includes the principal strategies defined in the Education 2030 Framework for Action: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all, agreed upon in Paris. The text includes the indicators to monitor the Education 2030 goals that have been proposed by the Technical Advisory Group, which is spearheaded by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. “The E2030 Agenda and the recent edition of the Lima Declaration (in Spanish, see English version) resulting from the Regional Ministerial Meeting on Education For All in Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and post-2015 Challenges, form the principal guidance for UNESCO’s work to support countries in Latin America and the Caribbean,” said Paz Portales.

In the words of OREALC/UNESCO Santiago Director, Jorge Sequeira, “More than an instrument for United Nations agencies, this agenda is “…a tool for countries to help them orient their actions towards guaranteeing the right to education. Furthermore, for civil society partners, this is a mechanism for effective monitoring of actions taken by governments, particularly towards meeting international commitments progressively.”

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Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education
All countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have adopted a commitment to ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. This agenda establishes priorities for advancing the right to education as established in various obligations assumed in international conventions and treaties.

An agenda for countries and citizens
The document in its presentation says: “Education lies at the heart of the sustainable development agenda, and is essential for the success of all other goals. The new education agenda set forth in Goal 4 is holistic, ambitious and aspirational, and leaves no one behind. It is inspired by a vision of education that transforms people’s lives, communities, and societies. As indicated in the presentation, the new element in this agenda is its focus on more and broader results in access, equity and inclusion, quality and learning outcomes, all within a lifelong learning approach.”

• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (United Nations)
• Education 2030 (UNESCO)
• Regional Campaign: E2030 Education to transform lives (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago)
• Regional youth consultation: Tell them what you want to learn