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This document constitutes an information guide and an attempt to compile and synthesize what is relevant to the development of the Regional System for the Evaluation and Development of Citizenship Competences-SREDECC. Six countries of the region take part in the project: Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. The purpose of the document is to present the general information of the System, to attain a general understanding of its scope and to provide institutions and Experts interested in its development with a basic information brief.
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As a result of the meeting of Ministers of Education of the Continent carried out in Trinidad and Tobago in 2005, the Ministers from Mexico, Chile and Colombia decided to propose a regional project that would allow the fostering of educational policies, programs and practices in the countries of the region. Considering this decision, and in the framework of the initiative for the promotion of Regional Public Property-RPP, a project with non-reimbursable financing was presented to the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, for the production of RPP that would arise from the countries’ collective action, and whose benefits would be public and regional.
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It is a joint project of six countries in the region with 50% financing from IDB, whose purpose is to create a Regional System that favors the development of educational policies, programs and practices appropriate to the reality of Latin America and of each of the participant countries. The goal of this project is to contribute to the building of a democratic citizenship in the member countries of the System through the strengthening of the education for citizenship and democracy.
The regional public property that will be created through this project consists in a Regional System for the Evaluation and Development of Citizenship Competences which, through regional and world references, will allow the participant countries to attain three great benefits which constitute the components of the project:
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To establish a common regional referent about the minimum competences that the Latin American citizen should have;
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To develop an evaluation system that allows us to analyze and compare the state and the progress of citizenship education in the region and in relation to the rest of the world; and
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To agree upon the basic criteria for an effective citizenship education and the greatest impact educational programs that lead to the strengthening of citizenship education in the participating countries. |
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