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Aprender a vivir juntos: Un programa intercultural e interreligioso para la educación ética: Resumen Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation What is the Learning to Live Together? How was it developed? Where and how can it be used? In the Executive Summary you can find answers to all these questions, as well as information about outstanding projects that show the potential of the programme. Learning to live together: an intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics education: Executive Summary Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation What is the Learning to Live Together? How was it developed? Where and how can it be used? In the Executive Summary you can find answers to all these questions, as well as information about outstanding projects that show the potential of the programme. 
Learning to live together: poster Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation The poster is for the Learning to Live Together programme. The Learning to Live Together programme is built on two complementary learning modules, ‘Understanding Self and Others’ and ‘Transforming the World Together,’ based on four core ethical values: respect, empathy, responsibility and reconciliation. 
What Have We Learnt?: Overview of Findings From a Survey of Ministries of Education on National Responses to COVID-19 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank conducted a Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures. In this joint report, the results of the first two rounds of data collection administered by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) were analysed. They cover government responses to school closures from pre-primary to secondary education. 
Global Guidance on Reopening Early Childhood Education Settings Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank | UNESCO This guidance note outlines key principles and practical measures for decision-makers to consider before, during and after the transition from closure to reopening. It focuses on safe operations in ECE settings, staff training and support, child well-being and development, and parental communication and support. 
Supplement to Framework for Reopening Schools: Emerging Lessons From Country Experiences in Managing the Process of Reopening Schools Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank | World Food Programme | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Education systems around the world continue to grapple with the complex decisions of when and how to reopen schools for in-person learning following widespread closures due to the COVID 19 pandemic. This supplement to the Framework for reopening schools, originally published jointly by UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Bank, the World Food Programme, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in April 2020, summarizes emerging lessons learnt over the past months.The supplement follows the four main dimensions of the Framework (safe operations, focus on learning, wellbeing & protection, and reaching the most marginalized) and highlighting a number of country examples. 
Building Strong Foundations: How to Include the Whole School in Foundational Education for Health and Well-being (Building Strong Foundations Brief; 3) Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) In a rapidly changing world, establishing strong foundations for children is vital for their well-being and resilience. Quality education is central to this endeavour and is the key to lifelong health and success. Recognizing that children thrive in the classroom when they are in good health, it is crucial to learn about health and well-being early on in primary schools. The Building Strong Foundations briefs, developed jointly by UNESCO and UNICEF, provide evidence-based guidance to support primary school-aged children to thrive through foundational education for health and well-being. Drawing from extensive research and consultations with leading experts from various fields and across the world, these briefs serve as a roadmap for education stakeholders to equip learners with the requisite knowledge and skills to navigate their current and future health and well-being needs. The present document is the third of four briefs. It explores how a whole-school approach to health and well-being in primary schools generates significant impacts on learners’ health, well-being and education. The brief shares practical guidance and case studies to distill six essential elements for an effective whole-school approach to health and well-being. 
Building Strong Foundations: How to Put Foundational Education for Health and Well-being into Practice (Building Strong Foundations Brief; 4) Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The African Union’s designation of 2024 as the Year of Education highlights the critical importance of education for equipping young Africans with the skills essential for their own and for the continent’s development. It is also a recognition of the multiple challenges ahead before every child can complete primary school having acquire the foundational skills that open the door for lifelong learning. Currently the out-of-school population is rising, one in five children do not complete primary school and, of those who do, only about one in five achieve minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. African countries have set targets on primary completion and foundational learning but to effectively translate their ambitions into results, the 2024 Spotlight continental report emphasizes the importance of coherence between their curricula, textbooks, teacher guides and assessments. It evaluates the alignment of these policy documents with each other but also with a global standard of what students are expected to know and by when. It also assesses how these key documents are used in classrooms and what the implications are for children’s opportunities to learn. This report is the second in a series of three envisaged between 2022 and 2025, each covering some 12 countries of which a selection is examined in depth, in dialogue with education ministries and national stakeholders. The focus countries for this second Spotlight report cycle were Mauritania, Niger, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. The statistics and analysis presented in this publication aim to feed into the policy dialogue mechanism under the auspices of the African Union and its Continental Education Strategy for Africa. In particular, the Spotlight series aims to spark debate on foundational learning among African countries and encourage them to identify areas for joined action, given that they share a lot of policy challenges. 
Approaches to Language in Education for Migrants and Refugees in the Asia-Pacific Region Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) UNESCO Bangkok commissioned this paper to examine strategies for addressing the needs of refugee, migrant and internally displaced children in the Asia-Pacific region. This document aims to create a stronger knowledge base to support Member States as they formulate education policies that are responsive to the needs of such children. This document aims to:Examine how linguistic diversity and human mobility intersect and impact minority, migrant and refugee children’s access to quality, inclusive educationLink policy priorities to promising practices, based on international frameworks and lessons learned from successful programmesRecommend steps for improving language-in-education policies and their implementation. To do this, this paper examines:Global and regional trends in migrationThe impact of migration on children’s educationLinguistic diversity and its implications for language-in-education policies and practicesResearch and resources that support inclusive quality education for migrant and refugee children. 
Building Back Equal: Girls Back to School Guide Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Plan International | United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) | Malala Fund The guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls. This guide emphasizes an approach to ‘build back equal’ through gender-responsive measures that transform education systems, prioritise resilience and address the key bottlenecks and barriers to girls’ education, including: Gender-responsive data and evidence to inform action, including data disaggregated by sex and gender-responsive monitoring to identify promising practices to promote gender equality. Policies, laws and plans to advance girls’ rights, including the removal of discriminatory practices that impede girls’ educational participation and completion, and ability to apply their learning. Sustained financing to achieve results, protecting education financing for girls’ education, alongside health, social protection and economy recovery initiatives with an equity lens.