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On 8 September, International Literacy Day 2022, the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNICEF LACRO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch Education in Latin America and the Caribbean at a Crossroads:  The SDG4-Education 2030 Regional Monitoring Report. The results will be released online during an event starting at 11 am (-4 GMT) on the 

Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, this publication takes stock of efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean to implement the SDG4 Education 2030 Agenda. It analyses achievements and challenges for education policy and decision-making for the next decade and describes the overall educational and social contexts in the region. Following a literature review and expert consultation, the report analyses education policy trends between 2015 and 2021 in thematic areas key to the achievement of  SDG4 targets:  access, equity and completion in early childhood, primary and secondary education; learning; teachers and managers; higher education; youth and adult learning and education; technical and vocational education and training; and financing and governance of education systems.

The event will feature Claudia Uribe, Director of OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of ECLAC's Social Development Division, and Rada Noeva, Deputy Regional Director (a.i.) of UNICEF for Latin America and the Caribbean. Daniela Trucco, Senior Social Affairs Officer of ECLAC; Alejandro Vera, Chief of the Monitoring and Planning Section of OREALC/UNESCO Santiago; and Italo Dutra, UNICEF LACRO Regional Education Advisor will present the report.  Following the presentation, Mercedes Mateo, Head of the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank; Laurette Bistrol, Programme Manager for Human Resource Development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and Leonardo Garnier, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General for the  will share their perspectives on the document.  Valtencir Mendes, Head of Education at OREALC/UNESCO Santiago will make closing remarks. 

The report is being launched in a context marked by the need for powerful actions over the coming years that are better coordinated and more clearly focused on the Education 2030 goals in Latin America and the Caribbean. The  , developed within the framework of the , describes these challenges and recognizes the need for profound transformation to address the structural and systemic factors driving the region's educational inequalities and injustice.

The  on 19 September 2022 in New York will provide a global forum to review of pandemic-related learning losses and recovery efforts, and to re-imagine education systems for today's and tomorrow's world,  revitalize national and global efforts to achieve SDG4.