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UNESCO Launches Caribbean Project for Capacity Building for Education Statistics
The UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean will launch a two year project to
build the capacity of Caribbean Ministries of Education to use statistics for evidence-based policy-making for increased quality education.
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An opening ceremony will take place on October 10, 2007 at the United Nations House in Christ Church, Barbados and will feature presentations by the Education Programme Manager of UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office, Mr. Paolo Fontani as well as remarks by the Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency, Koichiro Seki. The keynote address will be delivered by Barbados Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports, Hon. Anthony Wood.
To lead the implementation of the project, a Statistical Advisor, who will be based in Barbados, has been appointed who will work jointly with the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office, the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and will collaborate with other partners such as CARICOM, the OECS, World Bank, other UN agencies and financial institutions to achieve its objectives.
The project for Capacity Building for Education Statistics in the Caribbean is supported by the Japanese Funds-In-Trust and will target UNESCO’s Caribbean member states and associate member states, including Haiti. The project aims at providing technical support to beneficiary countries to improve capacities for data collection, processing and analysis to countries to promote evidence-informed policy-making at both national and regional level to achieve the international and regional goals of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Declaration. Main results of the project include the training of 250 educational officers across the region and the production of an EFA Monitoring Report for the Caribbean by 2008.
CONTACT: Mrs. Virginia Thomas, Sub Regional Education Statistics Advisor v.thomas@unesco.org; + (246) 467- 6090
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