The Unit for Social Development and Education

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Workshop for the Caribbean Educational Sector on
the OAS Horizontal Cooperation Program July 14,
2003 INEAM, Miami
JAMAICA
The Unit for Social Development and Education
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Goals of the Workshop

• Examine the education challenges facing the
  Caribbean

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Goals of the Workshop

• Share the lessons learned from some of the most
  consolidated programs in the Americas

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Goals of the Workshop

• Lay the groundwork for the next phase of KSAN-
  focusing on the Caribbean Member States in light
  of the 3 Ministerial Priorities

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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
Going beyond
the unilateral flow of resources and knowledge
the approach that centralizes the production and
distribution of knowledge
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
an opportunity for the collective review and
construction of knowledge, models and pilot
projects.
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
Based on
the countries political will to offer its
consolidated experiences and share the lessons
learned
the technical competence of the receiving and
offering countries to support and participate in
a critical analysis process
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
Based on
the fact that experiences in one country can
provide valuable lessons for other countries and
that these lessons contain the seed for similar
projects that can be redefined to fit other
national contexts.
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
Supported by KSAN
a descentralized and virtual Knowledge Sharing
and Advisory Network of policy makers, scholars,
and specialized analysts
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
Mexico and Argentina School management
Pilar PoznerResearcher and Coordinator of
Seminar on School Management
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
Ana Marta Najarro Dirección Nacional de Gestión
Educativa, Ministry of Education
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
El Salvador Educo Strengthening public school
with partnership program
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
Eduardo Monge Program Officer of
International Relations Fundación Omar Dengo
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
Costa Rica ICT in Education
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
Costa Rica ICT in Education
Ignacio Jara Valdivia National
Coordinator National Coordination Office of
Enlaces, Ministry of Education
Chile Enlaces
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
Dominican Republic Virtual Workshops
for a Distance Teacher Development Initiative
Carlos Miranda Assistant Director National
Information System
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
Costa Rica ICT in Education
Chile Enlaces
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
Gema Jara SEAs
curriculum designer and Coordinator of seminar on
School Management
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
Mexico Distance Secondary Education for
Adults
KSAN
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What is our perspective of Horizontal Cooperation?
A strategy for Collaboration
2002-2003
That allows us to integrate a mechanism that
starts with the knowledge sharing seminars
offered by the Ministries of Education
Mexico Use of EDUSAT for
Strengthening Educational Programs in the
Caribbean Region
Jaime Tacher Presented by Jaime
Tacher, General Director for Educational
Television, SEP/Mexico.
KSAN
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What are the advantages of this Mechanism?
Allows countries to express their actual
priorities Encourages countries to identify and
share experiences of success and failure, and
learn from them
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What are the advantages of this Mechanism?
All participating countries can simultaneously be
the sharer and the shared with. Not only the
country soliciting assistance receives a better
understanding of the lessons learned, but the
coordinating country is also able to reflect upon
its own evolution process. By so doing,
countries can incorporate the useful technique of
self-assessment into their institutional
functioning.
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PLANNING FOR MULILATERAL PROJECTS OF HEMISPHERIC
NATURE BASED ON THE HORIZONTAL COOERATION
MECHANISM
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Education Priorities in the Hemisphere Defined at
the Preparatory Meeting in Buenos Aires
1. EQUITY AND QUALITY Prevention of school
failure, over-age, repetition, drop-out and
assessment 2. TEACHER EDUCATION Public polices
on pre- service education, prefessional
development and teacher evaluation 3. SECONDARY
EDUCATION Youth, secondary education and
certification of labor competencies
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• The Hemispheric Projects

General Aspects

• Opened to participation of all member states
• Each one of the coordinated by a country at
  Hemispheric level, and co-coordinated para a
  country of each o the 5 sub-regions

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THE HEMISPHERERIC PROJECTS
Criteria for the development of Project Profiles

• Starting with a continental assessment on each of
  the three thematic areas, identifying the
  challenges faced at a hemispheric, regional and
  national level and possible lines of action.

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Guatemala -El Salvador Honduras - Nicaragua Costa
Rica - Panama - Domincan Republic
Canada United States Mexico

• Belize
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• St. Lucia
• S. V. the Granad.
• Grenada
• St Kits Nevis
• Antigua Barbuda
• Dominica
• Barbados
• Trinidad Tobago
• Guyana
• Bahamas
• Suriname

Chile Brasil Bolivia Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
Colombia - Ecuador Peru - Venezuela

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THE HEMISPHERIC PROJECTS
Criteria for the development of the Project
Profiles

• Should include an analysis of the thematic area
  that may provide axplanation for the
  interdependence of the proposed actions, and
  hence moving beyond a simple sum of smaller
  projects
• Should identify and analyse the different
  relevant existing experiencies detallando, and an
  understanding of how the Hemispheric Projects may
  take advantage of the accumulated knowledge.

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THE HEMISPHERIC PROJECTS
Criteria for the development of the Project
Profiles

• Create lines of action taking into consideration
  regional commitments (considering the inclusion
  of regional organization in the projects) and
  strengthening the multilateral approach by
• Sharing experiences
• Preparing materials
• Developing strategies for the professional
  development of all actors
• Considering the use of ICTs to reach out for a
  greater public
• That may be developed withing the Inter-American
  Committee on Education

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THE HEMISPHERIC PROJECTS
Criteria for the Development of the Project
Profiles

• Fianancial Resources for the Hemispheric Projects

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INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT
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TOWARDS THE III MEETING OF MINISTERS OF EDUCATION

• Finalize the Project Concepts after being
  reviewed by the CENPES
• Continue the dialogue through the virtual forum
  http//www.oas.org/udse/3minesterial
• Organize 3 Videoconferences with the Ministers of
  Education of the co-coordinating countries
• Present the proposal to other international
  agencies
• Include civil society organizations
• Celebrate the First Meeting of the Inter-American
  Committee on Education

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UNIT FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
Unidad de Desarrollo Social y Educación de la OEA