My Education, Our Future: A Commitment to Recovering and Protecting Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

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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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