The new season of the CPL ACE starts with 17 countries from the Latin American region, where ACE resumes the push to advance its agenda. 

The first session of CPL ACE took place on 29 March 2022, giving continuity to the Community of Practical Learnings initiated in March 2021. In this way, it is consolidated as a space for collective intelligence based on the exchange of experiences on ACE, and the promotion of innovative actions in the framework of the National Climate Empowerment Strategies that are being developed in the region.

For this year, we continue to count on the support of OREAL UNESCO and the participation of 17 countries in the region, incorporating practitioner profiles from the Ministries of Environment and Education, as well as regional and local public bodies in each country, thus strengthening coordination and collaboration in the promotion of the ENACE's for an effective territorial articulation of the same. 

As a novelty, CPL ACE transforms its methodology and, for this, it focuses on the development of three fundamental thematic lines, demanded by participants from the community itself: Monitoring and Evaluation, Communication and Social Awareness and International Cooperation. These three thematic lines will have 3 sessions each: 

• Thematic Session, where the aim is to deepen the thematic line through approaches and perspectives facilitated by expert panelists who point out advances in the field and provide a theoretical framework for practices in ACE. 

• Intersession, aimed at exchanges between countries and institutions that are developing or have developed successful practices in the area. 
• Collaborative practice, which will consist of a session focused on group work and the creation of new proposals, contents and resources to promote ACE. 

For this first session, we have addressed the thematic line of Monitoring and Evaluation and we have been able to count on the collaboration of Professor Aaron Benavot, expert in Global Education policy at the School of Education of the University of Albany in New York and collaborator in monitoring and evaluation in educational policies of the MEECE project. We were also able to count on the experience of Evaluation of the ACE Strategy in Colombia with Jairo Neftalí Cardenas from the Directorate of Climate Change and Risk Management of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, and Angela María Plata, coordinator of the environmental network of sustainable universities (RAUS) in Colombia, and part of the coordinating group of the alliance of Ibero-American networks of universities for sustainability and the environment (ARIUSA). 

During this working day, the advances in the monitoring and evaluation of ACE in the framework of the Glasgow programme at COP26 and what are the main challenges to be addressed for the measurement of the impact of ACE on public policies for Climate Change were discussed. 

About EUROCLIMA+   

EUROCLIMA+ is a programme funded by the European Union and co-financed by the German federal government through the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as by the governments of France and Spain through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. 

The Programme's mission is to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting mitigation, adaptation, resilience and climate investment. It is implemented according to the "Spirit of Team Europe" under the synergistic work of seven agencies: the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the French Development Agency (AFD), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Expertise France (EF), the International and Ibero-America Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAPP), the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). 

OREALC/UNESCO Santiago  

The Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago) was created in 1963 with the purpose of supporting Member States in improving their education systems, with the firm conviction that education is a human right for all, throughout life. Our mission is to lead, monitor and provide technical support to the countries of the region through each of their lines of action to advance towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Education 2030, with the involvement of other UNESCO offices and institutes, and with the participation of strategic partners.