Participants at the event

Speaking at the event, United Nations Resident Coordinator to Vietnam, Pauline Tamesis noted that to ensure that all children and young people complete an equitable and quality education, an education that leads to relevant and effective learning outcomes by 2030, it was time for a revamp.

"We need to prioritise the issues in the education sector that will help Vietnam achieve the education-related SDG targets: issues such as inequity in access, learning loss, digital divide, gender gaps, education financing gaps, and specific needs of education for particular groups of children and young people,” she said.

“Innovative approaches are needed to serve as levers for game-changing transformations of education policy and practice in the medium and longer-term. Therefore, active involvement and support of different government ministries, such as health, labour, environment, social development, finance, information and telecommunications, and youth are essential to ensure the commitments are turned into action, with an investment to reform”, shared Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative, as she wrapped up the national consultation.

“This meeting comes at a critically important time, as Viet Nam rethinks and reaffirms its approaches to achievement of SDG4. UNESCO is actively supporting education systems all over the world to engage in a global debate on how knowledge, education and learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity and the results of this discussion will be important contributions”, said Christian Manhart, UNESCO Country Representative.