Tuesday as part of the 39th session of the General Conference of UNESCO in Paris (30 October to 14 November 2017), Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet, Minister of Education, accompanied by his chief of staff, participated to the high-level round table on SDG 4-Education 2030, with his counterparts and government representatives from other countries. Several figures were provided on the progress made in the implementation of SDG 4 as well as the difficulties encountered and the bottlenecks in getting the process started.

During this important conference, Minister Cadet participated in a working meeting with his French and Latin American counterparts (Cuba, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic). Exchanging on major education challenges, opportunities and the need to strengthen partnerships has been the focus of this working meeting. Minister Cadet reviewed the current efforts in Haiti and identified several problems common to Southern countries that do not favor the good development of the education sector, among others : the problem of school feeding, teacher training, the lack of financial resources for the implementation of innovative programs such as the development of Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICT) in schools and overcrowding in classrooms.

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