Haiti - Quito : Ministers of Education of the Americas approve a common roadmap Vijonet Déméro, Haiti’s Minister of National Education, presided over the second and final day of the 12th Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education of the Organization of American States (OAS), held in Quito, Ecuador.
The meeting, centered on the theme "Towards Resilient Education Systems in Contexts of Change" brought together 41 sectoral officials and policymakers, including the Ministers of Education from Barbados, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, and Haiti to agree on collective responses to shared challenges.
During the plenary sessions, the region’s top education authorities addressed several key topics: educational pathways for retention and reintegration; the role of digital technologies in transforming pedagogy and education; democratic participation within the educational framework; the creation of healthy learning environments; and lifelong learning in a changing world.
Ramdin, Secretary General of the OAS, emphasized that "True development does not happen in isolation: it is built through continuous dialogue, cooperation, and the joint design of shared roadmaps." The meeting concluded with a joint hemispheric declaration and an action plan focused on ensuring educational continuity, driving digital transformation, fostering democratic participation, creating healthy....
