Organized jointly by IIEP UNESCO, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, and OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, the 2022 edition of the Regional Forum will provide with a timely and necessary virtual space for dialogue and reflection, to rethink and improve the link be-tween education policies and the quality of learning, and to promote a collective building of strategies to advance towards the Education 2030 Agenda and SDG 4. Furthermore, this edition will be the first space in LAC to follow up on the conclusions reached at the Transforming Education Summit (TES) to be held in New York in September 2022, and kick-start the adaptation of these findings for the region.

Join us to the launch of the Regional Monitoring Report SDG4-Education 2030 "The Crossroads of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean". At the event we will look at education trends for 2015-2021, analyzing educational indicators of the region, and systematizing the main policies across the countries. We will review their achievements and identify the challenges which will guide decision-making on educational policy in the next decade, towards 2030. This is a joint event organized by the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNICEF LACRO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

The 41st Session of the UNESCO General Conference approved the Uzbekistan’s proposal to host the Second World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education. This Second World Conference on ECCE is a UNESCO intergovernmental meeting (Category II) to be held on November 14-16, 2022 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. This meeting aims to reaffirm children's right to care and quality education from birth, and to urge Member States’ renewed commitment to and investment in SDG 4 and target 4.2. The Second World Conference on ECCE will promote the exchange of knowledge, policies, experiences and innovations among regions and countries on quality early childhood education and related issues. In this context, the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago) will organize a Regional Consultation on Early Childhood Care and Education in Latin America and the Caribbean on August 30-31, 2022.

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is essential to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It develops skills for work and life and promotes economic growth and inclusive and sustainable competitiveness, social equity, and environmental sustainability. In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the National Institute for Socialist Education and Training (INCES) is a public institution recognizing in its vision and mission the strategic role of TVET and implementing actions for a comprehensive training of workers and their conscious integration in the social process of work; according to the productive projects in the country contained in the Plan of the Homeland 2019-2025, and aligned to the UN 2030 Education Agenda. Within this context, the international conference series “The role of TVET in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, aims to promote a debate and reflect on the current global context and the challenges facing the transformation of TVET in different countries around the world. In the first conference, experiences in the development of TVET in South Africa and China will be presented as a reference to analyze challenges and opportunities to transform TVET in Venezuela.

This 15-week course aims to strengthen the capacity to use educational data to feed the different stages of planning, through a journey through different data sources and methodologies of analysis, applied to real contexts. This training is aimed at establishing a space for learning, discussion and exchange on the use of educational information in educational planning, to identify available and possible sources of data and methodologies, the different uses of information, future prospects, and the challenges that will be faced by Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in the coming years. The course is aimed at education officials, specialists and professionals involved in the production and/or use of educational information, prioritising those who have responsibilities associated with educational planning at the central management levels of national ministries of education. The course offers 5 modules that address different topics related to the production and use of information at different stages of educational planning, in addition to an introductory meeting to the seminar. Each module will last three weeks. The modules are organised around a set of reading materials, a synchronous virtual meeting in workshop format, and a practical application activity.

UNESCO invites to the seminar and launch of the report: Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education published in cooperation with Fundación SM in its Spanish version. This document, prepared by an international commission of education experts convened by UNESCO and with input from more than one million people from around the world, proposes a paradigm shift in relation to knowledge, education and learning in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precariousness.