 A grant received from the Global Partnership for Education, GPE, managed through the World Bank in collaboration with UNESCO, has brought together technical teams from the ministries of Education of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines to collaboratively work on the development of their in-country educational sector plans. The sub-regional workshop on educational sector planning took place in St. Lucia early December and gave technical teams the opportunity to share best practices and collaborate on the development of educational sector plans for the next five years. According to the Chief Planning Office of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Claudia Louie, this she says is timely and welcomes more opportunity for inter-regional cooperation and engagement in the area of educational policy. So we look at what is Grenada doing, what is St. Lucia doing, what is St. Vincent doing, what are the similarities and how can we learn from each other. So some islands, after we leave here, will go back and put in what is unique to their territory. But during the session here, we are going to learn from each other and try to improve our systems and learn from what each other island is doing. Education sector planning is a long-haul process consisting of consultation with stakeholders, mapping the future, setting policy goals and designing implementation strategies. Consulting facilitator Marcus Edward says that education policy priorities are shaped by the government of the day and the workshop process allows for technical teams to develop programs and activities that will lead to achieving desired outcomes. The working teams came to this meeting with a set of documents which we consider to be the heart of the education system. They come with policy priorities of the government. These policy priorities have been discussed with a number of stakeholders for the last month or so and accompanying those policy priorities are some outcomes, expected outcomes and some strategies by which those outcomes can be realized. St. Lucia's Educational Sector Plan 2023-2028 is expected to be completed and launched by April-May of 2023. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Daniel Dubois reporting.