Investment in children

Washington, D.C., April 19, 2024 – Finance ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean convened today in Washington, D.C., to discuss mobilizing $372 billion over the next five years to combat the region's water and sanitation crisis. The meeting, which gathered close to 100 ministers and development partners, was hosted by the Inter-…

Authorities, gathered in Chile for the Santiago 2024 Education Ministerial at the end of January, agreed to work to recover what was lost during the pandemic and to transform educational systems. They emphasized the importance of sustainable funding, innovative policies, and inclusive and resilient strategies to move from commitment to action.  In…, Priorities for Progress , Among other topics and agreements, ministers and other authorities reaffirmed in the Declaration the importance of addressing gaps in access to and quality of education and underscored the fundamental role of teaching staff. They emphasized the need to prioritize training and professional development of educators and to adopt evidence-based…

On Thursday, January 25, 2024, the "Ministerial Meeting of Education, Santiago 2024" began, which aims to design an agenda of actions to overcome the educational crisis caused by the pandemic. This meeting of ministers of Education and of Finance from Latin America and the Caribbean is organized by the UNESCO Regional Multisectoral Office in…, Governance and Resources for Education, In the discussion sessions of the "Ministerial Meeting of Education, Santiago 2024," authorities will address three key issues for the sector: the challenge of educational reactivation, the transformation of teaching to guarantee the right to education, and the financing required for these public policies. To contribute to this debate, ECLAC ,…, Youth make their voices heard , At the ministerial meeting, young people from Latin America and the Caribbean also raised their voices on the learning crisis that puts their future and the right to education of millions of children, adolescents and youth at risk.  A group of young people shared an Open letter from young people: Towards transformative education open letter to the…

Generating sufficient budgetary spaces and investing more and better in children and adolescents is one of the best strategies that countries have to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since 2013, UNICEF annually organizes regional meetings on how to move forward with this strategy, and these meetings have been…, Download presentations and speakers' biographies, PPT-0.1_Conferencia Magistral_Segura Vasi.pdf Economic context of Latin America and the Caribbean: economic growth, fiscal space and expectations for 2019 Presenter: 0.1_Bio-Alonso Segura Vasi.pdf Alonso Segura Vasi , Ex-Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru, Founding Partner of HACER PERÚ, Professor of Economics at PUCP.       PPT-0.…, Photo gallery, Foto Galería >>>> Click here to access photos of the Seminar. Organizers - International Seminar Investment in Children For more information: santodomingo@unicef.org  , Related resources, Latin America and the Caribbean 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Latin America and the Caribbean 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Almost 30 years after the signature of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ECLAC and UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional…, Previous seminars, Argentina Seminario Internacional “Inversión Social: en Busca de la incidencia para proteger y mejorar la asignación de recursos para la niñez y la adolescencia” - Argentina International Seminar “Social Investment: In Search of Advocacy to Protect and Improve the Allocation of Resources for Children” October 10 and 11, 2017 Buenos Aires,…