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All children learn in Guatemala
UNICEF Country Office
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Our goal is for more children and adolescents, especially from the most marginalized populations, to complete their education (prioritizing the secondary level), obtain better learning results, participate in safe school and community spaces, and make informed decisions about their lives, families and communities.
We focus our efforts on two strategic lines of work:
- Early childhood development and early education, with comprehensive community-based and contextualized intervention models encompassing five key areas: health, nutrition, nurturing care, safety and protection, and early learning.
- Adolescent development and education by creating dignified, protective, and empowering environments and tools, fostering increased opportunities for learning and skills acquisition, life projects, expression, participation, and technical training in trades and entrepreneurship.
What do we do?
We offer advice to the government and our partners in civil society and the private sector to strengthen the education system to:
- Improve access to and quality of early childhood and secondary education through efficient management and increased financial resources for priority programs, such as early childhood development and alternative education for adolescents.
- Support educational continuity, improve learning outcomes, prevent school dropout, promote flexible and inclusive education modalities (especially for adolescent girls and women), advance teacher training, establish digital learning platforms, and promote parents’ and caregivers’ participation in their children's education.
- Expand opportunities to access relevant programs for alternative education, life and work skills, vocational training, employment and entrepreneurship for out-of-school adolescents, especially for the most vulnerable affected by poverty, remoteness, migration, violence and ethnicity.
We work with educational authorities to:
- Promote culturally relevant programs that promote better literacy results in primary Promote culturally relevant programs that encourage improved literacy results in primary education and support cooperation platforms that help teachers exchange good practices.
- Promote adolescents’ participation to increase the relevance of learning programs.
- Strengthen frameworks for the prevention of violence against children and adolescents.
- Increase resources to increase the efficiency of school feeding programs for young children and adolescents.
- Strengthen education management information systems to produce relevant data and evidence on excluded populations and during emergencies.
- Reduce economic and social barriers, such as barriers related to school meals and health insurance for school-aged children.