Global citizenship education
Latin America and the Caribbean is a region facing multiple challenges in terms of reducing inequalities, ensuring the full exercise of human rights, and enabling the active participation of all individuals in public life. UNESCO supports countries through studies and analyses of education policies, aiming to promote and strengthen opportunities for meaningful lifelong learning, foster empowerment and critical thinking to learn to live together, and contribute to more just and peaceful societies.
Last update:4 June 2025
By building partnerships with key stakeholders—such as academia, non-profit organisations, and organised civil society—UNESCO identifies trends and tensions affecting the full exercise of human rights. It takes into account the impacts, opportunities, and challenges that technology, the climate crisis, democracy, recent history, and violence have generated for communities and the social fabric, promoting social and intergenerational justice.
Strategic priorities
- Promotion of dialogue within and among the Member States of Latin America and the Caribbean with key stakeholders to integrate the principles of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) into policies, education systems, and teacher training
- Review and support for the development of public education policies related to GCED
- Implementation of educational initiatives addressing the various themes covered by GCED
- Gathering of evidence to build guiding frameworks for decision-makers, teachers and educators, social actors, and youth
- Promotion of youth and local community empowerment and meaningful engagement as agents of change and facilitators of international understanding