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The Education We Want: An Advocacy Toolkit Year of publication: 2014 Author: James Edleston | Dan Smith | Sumaya Saluja | David Crone | Chernor Bah | Emily Laurie Corporate author: Plan international | A World at School | UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) Developed by Plan International, A World at School and the Youth Advocacy Group of the Global Education First Initiative, this toolkit was made for and by young people to advocate for quality education.Packed full of ideas, tools and inspiring stories, it helps children and youth to effectively carry out their own advocacy campaign.Although this advocacy toolkit focuses on education, its tips and ideas are applicable to young people advocating for a variety of development and rights issues.

The Education We Want: Workshop Facilitator Guide For the Advocacy Toolkit Year of publication: 2014 Author: Daniel Smith | James Edleston | Tom Burke | Emily Laurie Corporate author: Plan international | A World at School | UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) This guide is intended as a resource to accompany the ‘Education we want: An Advocacy’. It aims to provide a wide range of workshop activities for those who intend to Understand, Plan or Do their education advocacy using workshop based approaches.Workshops are an effective way of involving others in advocacy. They can support you in carrying out research, drafting a plan and building skills for action.The successful delivery of workshops relies on effective preparation, good facilitation skills and a commitment to support people’s learning and development.

Measuring Global Citizenship Education: A Collection of Practice and Tools Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Center for Universal Education at Brookings | UNESCO | UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) The idea of global citizenship has existed for several millennia. In ancient Greece, Diogenes declared himself a citizen of the world,1 while the Mahaupanishads of ancient India spoke of the world as one family.2 Today, education for global citizenship is recognized in many countries as a strategy for helping children and youth prosper in their personal and professional lives and contribute to building a better world.This toolkit is intended to shed light on one aspect of operationalizing global citizenship education (GCED): how it can be measured. This toolkit is the result of the collective efforts of the Global Citizenship Education Working Group (GCED-WG), a collegium of 90 organizations and experts co-convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution, and the United Nations Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative’s Youth Advocacy Group (GEFI-YAG). To gather the measurement tools in this collection, the working group surveyed GCED programs and initiatives that target youth (ages 15–24).3 For the purposes of this project, GCED was defined as any educational effort that aims to provide the skills, knowledge, and experiences and to encourage the behaviors, attitudes, and values that allow young persons to be agents of long-term, positive changes in their own lives and in the lives of people in their immediate and larger communities (with the community including the environment).This toolkit begins with a brief review of opinions on why GCED is important and the variety of definitions of GCED. We follow the report with a catalog of 50 profiles of assessment efforts, each describing practices and tools to measure GCED at the classroom, local, and national levels. Note that the survey does not represent an exhaustive list but may be regarded as a living document that will grow as the field of GCED itself grows around the world.Broadly speaking, the assessment efforts in this survey may be categorized across achieving three goals: (1) fostering the values/attitudes of being an agent of positive change; (2) building knowledge of where, why, and how to take action toward positive change; and (3) developing self-efficacy for taking effective actions toward positive change.Today, global challenges such as climate change, migration, and conflict will require people to do more than just think about solutions. They will require effective action, by both individuals and communities. Education for global citizenship is one means to help young people develop the knowledge, skills, behaviors, attitudes, and values to engage in effective individual and collective action at their local levels, with an eye toward a long-term, better future at the global level. We offer this toolkit to provide guidance for educators, policymakers, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and researchers, and to inform this conversation.

The education we want: youth advocacy toolkit Year of publication: 2015 Author: James Edleston | Dan Smith, Sumaya Saluja | David Crone | Chernor Bah | Emily Laurie Corporate author: UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) | Plan | A World at School This toolkit is for anyone who believes passionately in the power of education as a force for good in the world and the right for all children to get a good quality education, no matter where they are and what the circumstances. We hope this toolkit will support you to carry out your own advocacy campaign. If you are just beginning to think about taking action on education, you can work your way through the toolkit from start to finish. But you can also dip in to pick up useful hints or activities to help you carry out your existing plans. We know this toolkit doesn’t cover everything you might need and we’ve tried to sign-post you to other resources where possible. Included in here are lots of real stories of change, led by young people, from all over the world. We hope they inspire you. The young global movement for education is growing, and you can be part of it.

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