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results of their studies. Unfortunately the researcher for Argentina (Clara Braun) was not able to
participate in the seminar due to previous engagements.
1049. The seminar was attended by over 50 participants from various sectors. There were
representatives from governmental agencies (mainly from the Ministry of Social Development of
the State of Jalisco) and from the academia (mostly from the University of Guadalajara and other
leading local universities).
1050. CI was the other unit to carry out activities in Mexico. Fifty media communicators participated
in the workshop on “The Role of Media in the Prevention of Disasters” where they received training
in new communication techniques for diffusing news and information related to disaster prevention
and alleviation.
UNESCO Office in Santiago
Background:
1051. The UNESCO Regional Office for Education, UNESCO Santiago, focused it work on those
priority issues that put the right to quality education at risk for all in the region as well as
concentrating on the goal achievement of EFA, as projected for 2015.
1052. The strategic framework of the Regional Education Project for Latin America and Caribbean
– PRELAC –ensures that all the organization’s efforts be oriented to develop actions in order to
meet the increasingly complex challenges for quality of education. This task has caused the Office
particular challenges, calling for increased and more complex assistance, data and information for
all countries of the region.
1053. Work undertaken during the past two years by the Regional Office to reposition the PRELAC
as the main common strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean intended to align its actions to
the changing priorities of the region; it has achieved an increasing role of the ministers who have
appropriated their objectives by making complex recommendations, consistent with their needs.
1054. Work experience reaffirms the need to develop the program of the organization within the
framework of a regional strategy that, taking into account national particularities, moves the
educational agenda of the region both in defining the priorities for international cooperation as the
development of concrete actions aligned with those goals. There is no doubt about the joint
commitment of the ministers with shared priorities, promotes sustainability for both the work of
UNESCO and the countries themselves.
1055. Taking into account that in 2015 the EFA goals will be evaluated to move into a new phase
with renewed demands and complexities, it will be necessary now to advance defining a strategy,
gather the results of PRELAC, in order to set a new joint work plan set to deliver sustainability
achievements and allow movement of the limits of the results of educational activities in LAC with
the assistance of UNESCO.
Main Achievements
1056. UNESCO, Santiago Office has made significant progress in the dissemination and
communication of actions taken by developing an annual summary of activities, a media
newsletter, preparing news bulletins and organizing a special task force to address development of
quality publications. However, it is necessary to draw attention to the fact that the expected results
involved in the C5 does not include a specific line for this purpose, which requires considerable
resources in each line of action separately, it is adding complexity to communication tasks which is
crucial for the visibility of the organization.