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The urgency of educational recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean
The main purpose of this document is to provide materials for the construction of agreements at the Special Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Santiago, Chile, in January 2024, with a view to ensuring compliance with Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) by 2030. To this end, it presents a monitoring of educational trends in the region from the beginning of the pandemic until the most recent period, with an analysis of its main impacts and the policies that countries have implemented to address these.
1 February 2024
Last update:28 March 2024
La urgencia de la recuperación educativa en América Latina y el Caribe
2024
This document is a continuation of the first regional SDG4-Education 2030 monitoring report (UNESCO, UNICEF & ECLAC, 2022), which addressed the monitoring of education from 2015 to 2021, with updated indicators and a characterization of the most recent trends. The first part presents an analysis of the main educational trends in the region based on available information, focusing on those dimensions most affected by the pandemic. The second section presents a characterization of the most relevant educational policies that emerged in the region in the period following the COVID-19 pandemic until the end of 2023.
