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Join our commitment to educational recovery!
Latin America and the Caribbean are facing the greatest educational crisis in their recent history. On Thursday, June 2 at 12:00 PM EDT, join in the call for a commitment to education recovery, organized by the the World Bank, Inter-American Dialogue, UNICEF, and UNESCO.
Why now?
While many schools have reopened, the education crisis is not over for the more than 170 million students who experienced one of the world’s longest school closures.
Today, nearly all students in Latin America and the Caribbean have regressed in their learning, representing a loss of more than a decade in the region’s educational gains. But not all children have been affected equally: the youngest and poorest have been hit the hardest.
If left unaddressed, collective learning losses will harm Latin America and the Caribbean for decades to come, exacerbating inequalities and jeopardizing economic growth.
The severe educational impacts resulting from Covid-19 demand urgent, coordinated, and scaled actions to rescue the present and future of the region’s children and youth.
Read the Educational Recovery Compromise
FEATURED SPEAKERS
REGIONAL LEADERS
GABRIEL BORIC
President, Republic of Chile
XIOMARA CASTRO
President, Republic of Honduras
ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ
President, Republic of Argentina
GUILLERMO LASSO MENDOZA
President, Republic of Ecuador
PARTICIPATING EXPERTS
JEAN GOUGH
Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF
CLAUDIA URIBE
Director of Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (Chile), UNESCO
CARLOS FELIPE JARAMILLO
Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
ARIEL FISZBEIN
Director Education Program, Inter-American Dialogue
EMANUELA DI GROPELLO
Practice Manager for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank
CARLOS HENRÍQUEZ CALDERÓN
Coordinator of the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE), UNESCO Santiago
ITALO DUTRA
Regional Education Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF
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