Preparing to launch the Observatory for Youth and Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

In order to agree on content, operation, and levels of cooperation, and to prepare the work plan for launching the Observatory for Youth and Adult education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the directors of  the UNESCO Office in Santiago, Chile (OREALC), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), and the National Institute for Adult Education in Mexico (INEA), as well as representatives of the Council of Adult Education in Latin America (CEAAL) and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), met  on September 12 and 13 at the OREALC offices.

The Steering Committee of the Observatory – formed by the above institutions plus Brazil and a Caribbean country – will ask all Member States in the LAC region to appoint a representative, who will regularly update the Observatory on the development of adult education and the CONFINTEA follow-up process. It is planned to have a dedicated website ready in the coming three months, and to launch the Observatory in the second week of January 2013. The Observatory will monitor policies on adult education and provide recommendations to policy-makers and other stakeholders on how to define and implement those policies, as well as to academics and participants in the field.