The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of the UNESCO was created in 1963 with the mandate to assist member states in planning and managing educational policies. It currently has its headquarters in Paris, France, and two regional offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Dakar, Senagal. IIEP-UNESCO's office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Buenos Aires was founded in 1998. After twenty years of direct presence in the region, a specific knowledge has been developed about the educational systems of Latin America. This allows the institute to provide an up-to-date and contextualized vision on transcendental topics for planning, management and evaluation of educational policies.