The Ministers of Education supported, through the Declaration of Mexico , the drafting of the Hemispheric Projects on the three education priorities: Equity and Quality, Secondary Education and Teacher Education. They also renewed their commitment to the Summit Projects: Regional Education Indicators Project (PRIE) and the Hemispheric Evaluation Forum in Education.

Representatives from the Ministries of Education started drafting the three Hemispheric Projects after the commitments reached at the Preparatory Meeting for the III Meeting of Ministers of Education. These Hemispheric Projects are:

1. Development of policies and strategies for school failure prevention.

2. School Management and Certification for Development and Accreditation of Labor Competencies at the Upper Secondary Level.

3. Responses to the challenge of improving the quality of recruitment and selection, initial formation, professional development and evaluation of teachers in countries in the Hemisphere.

Each project was organized under hemispheric and sub-regional coordinating countries for the drafting of the proposal and the implementation processes. The sub-regional coordinators would bring into the design the specific needs of each region of the Continent. The proposals were presented to the Multilateral Special Fund of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (FEMCIDI) of the OAS in search of financing resources.

At the same time, and through the resolution on the Use of excess resources of the Reserve Subfund of the Regular Fund allocated to the sectoral area of Education of CIDI for the implementation of Summit of the Americas Mandates , the delegations present at the Ministerial Meeting agreed on the distribution of resources among the three Hemispheric Projects and the two Summit Projects.

With regards to the Summit Projects, Chile transferred its coordination of the Regional Education Indicators Project (PRIE) to Mexico, and Brazil will continue coordinating the Hemispheric Evaluation Forum in Education .

The Ministers of Education gave their support for the use of information and communications technologies as a transversal theme on the educations priorities described. In that regards, the offer made by Mexico for the free use of the satellite signal EDUSAT will be of great importance, as well as the inaugurated Channel of the Americas.

Hemispheric Project in Secondary Education, Labor and Key competencies

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Format for Presentation of Partnership for Cooperation Proposals 2003

1. Elaboración de políticas y estrategias para la prevención del fracaso escolar. (Spanish)

2. School Management and Certification for Development and Accreditation of Labor Competencies at the Upper Secondary Level .

3. Respuestas a los desafíos de mejorar la calidad del reclutamiento y selección, formación inicial, desarrollo profesional y evaluación de los docentes. (Spanish)

Resolution 9
Uso de los excedentes de recursos del Subfondo de Reserva del Fondo Regular (Spanish)