UNICEF and the Regional
Education Agenda
- The regional agenda
- A different perspective on numbers
- Other contributions from UNICEF
The Agenda
Looking beyond the educational goals of ODM and EFA:
2021 GOALS
Declaration of Mar del Plata:
“To encourage the multilateral cooperation agencies,
including those within the United Nations system, in
the context of development assistance, cooperation
programs and mid-term reviews to support national
priorities set by our states, to duly implement the
Initiatives 201
To develop a global, articulate and strong
voice for the right to education
5 Exclusion scales
1
1
Fuera de
Outlaof
initial
educación
education
inicial
Tomorrow’s exclusion
2
Out of
elementary
education
3
Out of high
school
4
At the risk
of leaving
elementary
Today’s exclusion
school
5
At the risk
of leaving
high
school
 Dynamic flow in the processes of exclusion,
marked by inequalities in the living conditions of children
and adolescents.
How many children and adolescents have left or are
at the risk of leaving school?
How many children and adolescents have left or are at the risk of leaving school in LAC?
Students enrolled by age and condition of age, and by population and age, from
5 to 15 yr old, by levels according to each country’s rules
(in thousands of students)
12,000,000
10,000,000
Population
8,000,000
1
2
8,778
7,823
B
4
7,827
7,363
7,130
6,000,000
3
5
At the
A age of 15, the exclusion
process speeds up.
A
6,773
6,445
Population
B
Enrolled
students
6,148
5,657
4,935
4,000,000
3,860
Students
of theoretical
age group
2,000,000
-
5 yr old
6 yr old
7 yr old
8 yr old
9 yr old
10 yr old
11 yr old
12 yr old
13 yr olg
14 yr old
15 yr olf
16 yr old
17 yr old
Age in years
Source: own processing based on UNESCO - UIS. 28 countries in the region. Circa 2008
Scale 3
4
5
1
2
attending
elementary
school,
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who
are
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Children
of
age to attend
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attending
courses
ofearly
high
Children
of
age
to
attend
initial
elementary
school
school
and
who
and
are
who
lagging behind
soare
much
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of
leaving
courses
school
and
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who
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at risk
the high
risk
of
not
are
not
attending
attending
intialelementary
or elementary
or high
school
school
school
leaving
school.
school
4.A: at moderate
risk: 14 million children
1.9
2.9
2.1
children
5.A:million
at moderate
risk: 8 million children
Equivalent to the
all those
entire
population
born
school
in
of2008
population
6 years
in Bolivia,
oldofinCuba
Mexico,
Chile,
4.B:
at
critical
risk:
9
million
children
5.B: at critical
risk: 6Haiti
million
Argentina
Ecuador,
Guatemala,
and Paraguay
andchildren
Venezuela
Withing
million
children
attend
turningbehind.
16.
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group,this
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million2.4
children
who
attend
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are lagging
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