LATIN AMERICAN STATEMENT FOR EDUCATION FOR ALL The World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal, April, 2000) was convened by five international organizations: UNDP (United Nations Development Program), UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank. The Forum's objective was to evaluate progress of the Education for All (EFA) world initiative, launched a decade earlier during the World Conference on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, March 1990). The six EFA goals were not met by the year 2000. Therefore, in Dakar, representatives of governments, civil society and international agencies adopted a new Framework of Action for Education for All, which basically ratified the goals adopted in 1990 and postponed the deadline to 2015. The initiative of a Latin American Statement on Education for All, on the occasion of the World Education Forum, emerged from a small group of Latin American educators and researchers: Pablo Latapí (Mexico), Sylvia Schmelkes (Mexico) and Rosa-María Torres (Ecuador/Argentina). The document was initially circulated by e-mail to a list of nearly 200 people a few days prior to the Forum. In Dakar, copies were distributed in Spanish and English. Also, it was adopted and presented, during the last plenary session, by the official delegation of Ecuador. Since April 2000, OVER TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE have signed this manifest overe-mail (over ONE MILLION MEMBERS if we consider that many people adhere in representation of their institutions and organizations, among them five major teacher organizations in the region). Many signatories send comments and suggestions, which have enriched the document and have been added to it as an annex. Signatories come from a wide range of countries, sectors and institutions: government, political parties, universities and research centers, public and private school systems, NGOs, teacher unions, student and parent associations, grassroots and indigenous organizations, mass media, churches, private enterprise, and international agencies. Members of the Latin American Statement are connected through e-mail and are part of a virtual community, Comunidad E-ducativa, created in February 2002 in order to enable meaningful exchange and organize commonly agreed activities. There are currently over 600 members. Spanish and Portuguese are the main communication languages, and there is regular, almost daily, communication within the network. Another electronic group, Ed-Community, was created and operates for the English-speaking signatories. Both virtual communities are moderated. The Moderator is also the Coordinator of the overall initiative. The Latin American Statement has its own site: http://www.fronesis.org/prolat.htm The initiative operates on the basis of voluntary, non-remunerated work, without financial support of any sort. The experience has been presented and commented in various national and international conferences and fora. The Latin American Statement continues to be disseminated through web sites, electronic bulletins and printed publications in the various countries and outside the region. Names continue to be added from Latin America and from other regions.  You may adhere or submit your comments to: pronunciamientolatinoamericano@yahoo.com
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