CONEP and EDUCA Sign Agreement to Promote Dominican Education on all Levels

CONEP and EDUCA Sign Agreement to Promote Dominican Education on all Levels
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 8/2/2013

The National Council for Private Enterprise (CONEP in Spanish) and EDUCA Business Action for Education, signed a cooperation agreement recently to contribute to improving the quality of education in the Dominican Republic, on all levels.

… CONEP and EDUCA are proposing to define and confirm the business agenda in terms of quality education and to jointly coordinate the institutional representation and tasks that fall to the private sector in its relationship with the National Council for Education and Higher Education, Science and Technology.

As part of the agreement, CONEP and EDUCA are proposing to define and confirm the business agenda in terms of quality education and to jointly coordinate the institutional representation and tasks that fall to the private sector in its relationship with the National Council for Education and Higher Education, Science and Technology.

“With this agreement, CONEP and EDUCAare creating an atmosphere of collaboration for developing reciprocal technical assistance programs and/or future programs to promote education in the country,” said Manuel Diez Cabral, president of CONEP.

The alliance between EDUCA and CONEP also includes the development of joint research projectsthat will benefit education, such as identifying potential opportunities in which both institutions can contribute with similar initiatives.

“This initiative, reaffirms CONEP’s commitment to EDUCA to improve the productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of our efforts through direct actions oriented at raising the quality of education,” added Elena Viyella de Paliza, president of EDUCA.

“The agreement also reinforces CONEP’s commitment to promote Dominican education while contributing to the economic and social development of the nation,” said Rafael Paz Familia, executive vice president of CONEP.

50^th Anniversary of CONEP

This year, 2013, CONEP celebrates 50 years of work in strengthening the private sector of the Dominican Republic.

In honor or this very important achievement, the CONEP family has organized a variety of activities for 2013 and 2014.

The calendar of activities includes a thanksgiving Mass; various agreements focused on the development of social corporate responsibility; expert-led panels on economic topics; the launch of a CONEP magazine; the annual Grand Gala and a book memorializing the institution’s work of these past fifty years, including the sense of equilibrium it has represented to the private sector.

CONEP’s fifty-year celebration will also represent and underscore these years as an era of achievements, learning and history that will be transmitted and celebrated for this entire period.

As these activities get underway in the coming months, CONEP will provide information about them through the media.

More details can also be found on their webpages: www.conep.org.do as well as Facebook at www.facebook.com/coneprd and Twitter @Conep_RD.

About EDUCA

Educa is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 by a group of business people dedicated to the idea of improving education.Its mission is to promote ideas and plans that involve the public and private sectors in innovate ways to promote change needed to improve the education system and to raise its levels of excellence in learning so that students can effectively respond to requirements within the national context and also be able to compete in the global arena.

www.EDUCA.org.do / twitter: @EDUCA__RD / facebook.com/EDUCA.sd

For more information, contact CONEP by email at nmiro@conep.org.do
Telephone: 809.472.7101, ext. 240 / 242 / 232

Contact EDUCA by email: yasharac@educa.org.do
Telephone: (809) 682-1616