PR – Minister for Education, Sen. the Hon. David Andrew recently attended the 2025 Kix Lac Hub Regional Meeting held in in Antigua, Guatemala.
KIX is the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange, a global platform to strengthen education systems, and KIX LAC is the Latin America and Caribbean hub of this initiative. More than 100 education leaders from the region and around the world gathered at the 2025 KIX LAC Hub Regional Meeting on June 18 to 20, 2025. This included Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia and Belize and Bolivia.
The educational leaders discussed the urgent challenge of ensuring that all children in the region have access to quality foundational learning, a key condition for their integral development and educational justice. These challenges were aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased the learning gap and excluded millions of children from the education system.
The opening session of the 2025 KIX LAC Hub Regional Meeting highlighted the progress and achievements of GPE KIX LAC and featured the Panel with Ministers of Education of Central America and the Caribbean: “Learning and Foundational Competencies: Policies, Innovations and Challenges” – a conversation on the region’s key challenges and opportunities.
The KIX LAC Hub Regional Meeting 2025 focused on three key areas:
(1) Identifying and prioritizing educational challenges across Global Partnership for Education (GPE) member countries in the region,
(2) Sharing successful experiences and effective strategies arising from GPE KIX research projects and other relevant innovations, and
(3) Strengthening multi-sector and regional partnerships to develop, test and adopt new evidence based solutions aligned with educational policies.
Through keynote speakers’ conferences, interactive workshops and thematic panels, attendees had the opportunity to explore evidence-based strategies, exchange successful experiences, and strengthen their capacity to design effective education policies.
The meeting concluded with a key milestone, the Antigua Commitment, which was signed by Ministers of Education, SUMMA and OECS, reaffirming the region’s commitment to educational justice and to work towards for a more equitable, just and inclusive educational sector. SUMMA, the leading education research and innovation lab for Latin America and the Caribbean, along with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), leads the KIX LAC hub, connecting educational stakeholders to promote knowledge exchange and innovative solutions across the region.
The conclusions and commitments of the KIX LAC Hub Regional Meeting 2025 will inform early childhood education policy development, pedagogical and assessment strategies to promote foundational learning, and inclusive financing to enable its implementation.
Organized by the KIX LAC Hub, an initiative of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and led in Latin America and the Caribbean by SUMMA and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), this meeting was held with the support of the Ministry of Education of Guatemala.
Led by SUMMA, in partnership with the OECS, the KIX for Central Latin America and the Caribbean (KIX LAC Hub) has been working since April 2020 to support the development of education systems in partner countries.
