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Education for Sustainable Development and COVID-19 in Southern Africa: Intersecting Perspectives on Why Water, Food and Livelihoods Matter in Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Year of publication: 2021 Author: Heila Lotz-Sisitka | Injairu Kulundu | Rachel Neville | Anna James | Ayanda Buhlebenkosi Moyo | Esthery Kunkwenzu | Domingos Carlos Mirione | Gibson Mphepo | Kgosietsile Velempini | Lwanda Maqwelane | Phila Dyantyi | Rutendo Mushishi | Selemani Abdul Makwita | Yeukai Musariri | Zenani Mhlanga Corporate author: JET Education Services | Rhodes University The main question of this book is โWhat can we learn from this intersecting crisis for transforming education for sustainable futures in southern African countriesโ.The research process will generate a few additional questions including, but not limited to:Can stronger school-community-government partnerships help to reduce risks and challenges such as those being faced now under the COVID-19 crisis?What can our governments do better?What can communities and parents do?What can educators and learners do?What systems need to be generated to ensure an alternative, transformed future and what is the role of education in this story? 
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development: Conference Report by the General Rapporteur Year of publication: 2015 Author: Heila Lotz-Sisitka Under the banner of โLearning Today for a Sustainable Futureโ, the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (WCESD), hosted in Aichi-Nagoya, from 10โ12 November 2014, marked and celebrated the end of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005โ2014). It also saw the launch of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development and adoption of the Aichi-Nagoya Declaration. The DESD was established out of an agreement amongst Member States to strengthen the role of education in achieving sustainable development at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Through the adoption of Resolution 57/254 in 2002, the UN General Assembly declared the DESD, to take place from 2005 to 2014, and tasked UNESCO as the lead agency. The WCESD, organized at the end of the DESD by UNESCO and the Government of Japan, provided an important opportunity to consolidate the outcomes of the DESD, and to frame the way forward for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at global level.