Registration of participants (Exhibit Hall)

PREPARATORY SESSION (Mutis Room)

Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Education. Presiding: (Marva Ribeiro, Chair of the CIE)

•  Agreements on:

•  Election of officers for the ministerial meeting

•  Membership of the Style Committee

•  Draft agenda and schedule

•  Establishment of a working group

•  Deadline for presentation of proposals

•  Duration of the meeting

•  Other topics

•  Agreement on the election of the officers and Executive Committee of the CIE

•  Review of the draft “Hemispheric Commitment to Early Childhood Education and Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009)”. Working procedure and approach to defining conclusions and recommendations

PREPARATORY SESSION (continuation, if necessary)

•  Continued review of the draft “Hemispheric Commitment to Early Childhood Education and Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009)”

INAUGURAL SESSION (Del Rey Room)

Welcoming remarks by:

•  Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)

•  His Excellency Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President of the Republic of Colombia

Dinner hosted by the Government of Colombia in honor of participants at the Fifth Meeting of Ministers of Education
(Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española)

Registration of participants (Exhibit Hall)

FIRST PLENARY SESSION (Del Rey Room)

•  Adoption of the draft agenda and draft schedule

•  Election of the chair of the Fifth Meeting of Ministers of Education

•  Formal adoption of the agreements reached at the preparatory session

•  Objectives of the ministerial meeting

SECOND PLENARY SESSION: Progress made since the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of Education (Del Rey Room)

Report on progress under the CIE work plan since Scarborough

•  Marva Ribeiro, Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE):

•  Lenore Yaffee Garcia, Director of the Department of Education and Culture and Technical Secretariat to the education ministerial process in the OAS framework

Educational Panorama 2007 – Progress by countries in achieving the educational goals of the Summits of the Americas (Regional Education Indicators Project, PRIE)

•  Report by Jorge Santibáñez Romellón, Head of the Planning and Policy Evaluation Unit, Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico

Ministerial dialogue

COFFEE BREAK

THIRD PLENARY SESSION: Review of policies on comprehensive early childhood services in the region (Del Rey Room)

Comprehensive early childhood services: Foundations for social, political, and economic growth

•  Presentation by Mary Eming Young, Lead Early Child Development Specialist, World Bank

State of the art of early childhood policies in the Hemisphere

•  Gaby Fujimoto, Senior Specialist, OAS Department of Education and Culture

•  Maria Victoria Peralta, Director, International Institute of Early Childhood Education (IIEI): OAS/Van Leer Project

•  Juan Sánchez Muliterno, President, World Association of Early Childhood Educators (WAECE): Report of Civil Society

Ministerial dialogue

Lunch hosted by the Trust for the Americas
(Casa Pestagua Hotel, Historic city center, Calle Santo Domingo
#33-63)

FOURTH PLENARY SESSION: Intersectoral government policy, comprehensive services, and diversity (Del Rey Room)

Moderator : Robert Myers, Founder and former President of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD)

•  Yasna Provoste Campillay, Minister of Education of Chile

•  Cecilia María Vélez White, Minister of National Education of Colombia

•  Hazel Manning, Minister of Education of Trinidad and Tobago

•  Marlon A. Brevé Reyes, Secretary of Public Education of Honduras

Ministerial dialogue

COFFEE BREAK

FIFTH PLENARY SESSION: Legal and regulatory frameworks; approaches to funding for sustainability (Del Rey Room)

Moderator: Marcelo Cabrol, Education Chief, Social Sector, Inter-American Development Bank

•  María do Pilar Almeida e Silva, Vice Minister of Education of Brazil

•  María del Carmen Aceña de Fuentes, Minister of Education of Guatemala

•  Peter Bjornson, Minister of Education of Manitoba , Canada

Ministerial dialogue

Launch of the Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy. OAS Technical Secretariat

Dinner hosted by the Government of Colombia (Chapel, Hotel Santa Clara, Carrera 8 No. 39-29. Calle del Torno)

SIXTH PLENARY SESSION: Comprehensive early childhood service programs (Del Rey Room)

Moderator: Nurper Ulkuer, Senior Adviser, Early Childhood, UNICEF

•  Cynthia Y. Forde, J.P, M.P., Minister of Education of Barbados

•  Leonardo Garnier Rímolo, Minister of Education of Costa Rica

•  Marta Justina Lafuente, Vice Minister of Education of Paraguay

COFFEE BREAK

SEVENTH PLENARY SESSION: Future Work of the Inter-American Committee on Education (Del Rey Room)

Election of the officers and Executive Committee of the CIE, 2007-2009

Offer to host the fourth regular meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education

Latin American Network of Educational Portals (RELPE) Project

•  Presentation by Cecilia María Vélez White, Minister of National Education of Colombia

ALAS Foundation

•  Presentation by the Director, Araceli Ruano Pineda

EIGHTH PLENARY SESSION: Links between the ministerial and Summits of the Americas processes (Del Rey Room)

Ministerial meetings in the Summits framework:

•  Presentation by Carmen Marina Gutiérrez, Director of the OAS Summits Secretariat

Lunch hosted by the Government of Colombia in honor of the ministers of education and heads of delegation (Municipal Town Hall – Plaza de la Aduana)

NINTH PLENARY SESSION: Hemispheric Commitment to Early Childhood Education : Conclusions, recommendations, and Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009) (Del Rey Room)

•  Inputs by international and civil society organizations on the Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009)

•  Comments by the ministers of education and heads of delegation on implementation of the Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009)

Adoption of the document “Hemispheric Commitment to Early Childhood Education and Joint Working Agenda (2007-2009)”

CLOSING SESSION