The director of SUMMA, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, travelled to Washington to take part in the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, which are held annually. As part of this event, he was invited to speak at the conference \u201cUnlocking Skills for Life and Work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Partnerships to Transform Education\u201d, organised by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Latin American Business Council (CEAL).<\/p>\n
The aim of the meeting was to analyse how governments and the private sector can coordinate efforts and develop joint proposals to strengthen educational development in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
The high-level event brought together ministers and ambassadors from across the region, education specialists and senior representatives from the organising institutions. Gonz\u00e1lez shared event with Grenada\u2019s Minister of Education, David Andrew, providing an opportunity to discuss the national literacy plan that the country is promoting in collaboration with SUMMA, with support from GPE and the private sector.<\/p>\n
The panel discussion entitled \u201cSustainable financing: smart spending\u201d brought together leading experts alongside Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, including Suriname\u2019s Minister of Finance and Planning, Adelien Wijnerman; the Director of Education at the Education Above All Foundation, Mary Joy Pigozzi; and the Executive Director of the People in the New Economy division at Systemiq, Liesbet Steer. The moderator was Fernando Regal\u00eda, Manager of the Social Sector at the IDB.<\/p>\n
In his intervention during the first panel, Grenada\u2019s Minister of Education, David Andrew, highlighted that the country\u2019s government has partnered with SUMMA, KIX, and GPE with the aim of raising sustainable funding for foundational learning. According to the minister, this collaboration has enabled the mobilisation of significant resources to improve literacy practices.<\/p>\n
Grenada\u2019s national literacy plan, spearheaded by the country\u2019s government in partnership with SUMMA, with support from GPE and the private sector, forms part of a commitment to literacy and educational transformation across the region, which originated with the Antigua Commitment to Literacy,<\/a> launched during the KIX LAC Regional Meeting<\/a> held in 2025, in Guatemala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The director of SUMMA, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, travelled to Washington to take part in the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, which are held annually. As part of this event, he was invited to speak at the conference \u201cUnlocking Skills for Life and Work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Partnerships to Transform Education\u201d, organised by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[165,123,164],"class_list":["post-97593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aprendizajes-fundacionales","tag-destacada-en","tag-foundational-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97622,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97593\/revisions\/97622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}