Resolution #6

Considering:

That CEPCIDI has been instructed to identify and implement, within the scope of its competence, specific partnership for development projects that reflect, in concrete terms, the desire for collective action of the Heads of State and Government and of CIDI's sectoral meetings;

That the Heads of State and Government, gathered at the Third Summit of the Americas, agreed to entrust the Organization of American States with organizing in Uruguay, within the framework of CIDI, a meeting of Ministers of Education with mandates including, inter alia, identifying and setting up appropriate hemispheric mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the education initiatives contained in the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas and continuing to promote actions on priorities identified at the Miami and Santiago Summits;

Resolves:

1. To instruct the next meeting of the Nonpermanent Specialized Committee (CENPE) responsible for Education, in drawing up the report referred to in Article 21 of the Statutes of the Special Multilateral Fund of CIDI (FEMCIDI) on partnership for development activities in the field of education recommended for execution in the next period, to give preferential attention to multilateral projects that respond to the commitments set forth at the Third Summit of the Americas and summarized in the following five central themes: (1) equality and quality; (2) management, decentralization, social participation, and teacher training; (3) young people, secondary education, and certifying job skills; (4) higher education, science and technology, and academic mobility; (5) new technologies applied to education.
   
   
2. To set up, as a mechanism for programming and designing regional projects, a meeting of specialists from the Ministries of Education, with the purpose of designing projects that respond to the lines of action indicated by the Summit of the Americas. The consolidated programs identified by the ministries will be used as raw materials for designing these projects.
   
   
3. To ask the financing agencies to provide funding for the regional cooperation projects entered into jointly by the countries at the Meeting of Education Ministry Specialists referred to in the previous paragraph.

Ministers of Education

I Meeting of Ministers of Education

II Meeting of Ministers of Education

Declaration by the Education Ministers of the Americas

Declaration against violence

Resolution: Project Proposals in Education

Resolution: Follow up mechanisms

III Meeting of Ministers of Education

IV Meeting of Ministers of Education
- Preparatory Meeting