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Find out how Latin America’s collaborative efforts are transforming education
This article is part of the Key Learnings for Education 2030 series written by the SDG 4 High-Level Steering Committee (HLSC) Inter-Agency Secretariat. In this series, we speak with the outgoing leaders of the HLSC about the strides that were made towards achieving SDG 4 and draw inspiration from them on how to further advance the work for education transformation.
I believe that Latin America’s leadership is strong and, furthermore, it is shared leadership, which is very important. It is not a unipersonal leadership, and it is closely coordinated among all of them.
Mariano Jabonero, Secretary-General of the (Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture/OEI), highlighted the importance of regional coordination in making concrete actions to transform education landscapes in Latin America.
At the Paris meeting of the SDG 4 High-level Steering Committee (HLSC), the global apex body for education cooperation, on 08 November 2023, Jabonero stressed that the cooperation and coordination among the region’s education decision-makers and their swift action to concretize inter-country dialogues into public policies paved the way in accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Living up to their mandate of coordinating for and representing the Latin-American and Caribbean region within the SDG 4 HLSC along with OEI, Argentina and Colombia took the lead (1) in directly and decisively working with all the other countries in the region to come up with a shared voice echoing the common objective of Transforming Education, and (2) in implementing public policies that are context-based and supported by the international communities.
Latin America's good example — the translation of collaborative political dialogues into public policies, which in turn translate into operational results — is a living outcome of the kind of leadership of the SDG 4 HLSC on Transforming Education movement, which improves and intensifies the coordination for SDG 4 and all other SDGs.
