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17.10.2019 -The conclusions of the regional forum “Education beyond borders: Regional solidarity for the guarantee of the right to education for people on the move” were released by UNESCO on October 17, 2019. The document issues a call to build cross-border regional educational responses in a complex context of large-scale international movements that cannot be successfully addressed solely through national solutions, UNESCO states.
The text, which refers to the meeting held 7-9 August 2019 in Santiago de Chile, contains the points that the participants expressed during the event. These include the need for coordination mechanisms that allow for public policies that go beyond migratory emergency responses; giving priority to formal education systems for educational responses; the need for data that allow countries to plan adequate and timely responses; and progress on mechanisms for recognizing studies and prior knowledge that ensure continuation of studies and the development of individuals on the move through employment.
Representatives from Ministries of Education from the region, government institutions responsible for implementing migration policy and international and civil society organizations attended the meeting. The attendees highlighted the need to expand efforts that would allow educational and social environments to become spaces that recognize diversity as an enriching element and fundamental condition for achieving sustainable development.
Claudia Uribe, Director of the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), stated during the meeting “there is a generous commitment on the part of destination countries to ensure the right to education of people on the move. However, these efforts require cross-border coordination mechanisms, more funding and a focus on the important needs of formal education systems in order to expand their scope and go beyond emergency responses.”
The regional forum “Education beyond borders: Regional solidarity for the guarantee of the right to education for people on the move” was designed to provide an opportunity for the stakeholders involved in this work to engage in dialogue and to provide a context of regional collaboration and strategic decisions to guarantee the right to education of individuals in a context of mobility.
Participants analyzed the main challenges related to the educational response to contemporary human mobility flows and exchanged meaningful experiences for addressing them in Latin America and the Caribbean. During the event, the document Regional Strategy for UNESCO’s response to the situation of people on the move in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019-2021 was presented and modes of collaboration were identified.
The forum featured the following sessions:
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The forum included the participation of representatives of the Education Ministries of Uruguay, Grenada, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Curaçao and Mexico. It was also attended by important regional partners such as the International Organization for Migrants (OIM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture.
The Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Andrés Bello Convention, Fundación Santa María, the Continuing Education Network of Latin America and Europe, RET International, the Jesuit Refugee Service, Cooperativa Sociale Mondo Aperto and the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and Caribbean (CERLALC/UNESCO) were invited.
The event also was attended by representatives of the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO/IIPE Buenos Aires), coordination experts who publish the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights and UNESCO’s Guatemala, Montevideo, Lima and Beirut Offices and its Paris Headquarters.
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