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Education in a Post-COVID World: Towards a Rapid Transformation; Mission Recovering Education in Humanitarian Settings Brief Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Towards the goal of COVID-19 recovery for crisis-affected children, UNICEF has been implementing the Mission: Recovering Education in Humanitarian Settings programme in 27 countries and across all seven regional offices, with support from the United States government. This programme emerged from Mission: Recovering Education, globally launched in 2021 by UNICEF, UNESCO and the World Bank. To examine how these programme countries have progressed in recovering and accelerating learning through the five key policy actions in the RAPID framework, this brief presents findings from the 4th round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures (‘joint survey’), administered between April to July 2022, and the Global Education Recovery Tracker (‘GERT’), administered between May to July 2022. These findings are a follow-up to the 1st round of RAPID data collected in March 2022. 
أثر برنامج قائم على مبادئ التربية من أجل الاستدامة في تنمية الوعي بالتغيرات المناخية، وقيم المواطنة البيئية لدى تلاميذ المرحلة المتوسطة بالمناطق العشوائية (vol.48, no.2 المجلة الدولية للأبحاث والتربوية) Year of publication: 2024 Author: Nermin Awny Mohammad | Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelhady Corporate author: United Arab Emirates University هدف البحث إلى الكشف عن أثر برنامج قائم على مبادئ التربية من أجل الاستدامة في تنمية الوعي بالتغيرات المناخية، وقيم المواطنة البيئية لدى تلاميذ الصف الثاني من المرحلة المتوسطة بالمناطق العشوائية، واعتمد البحث على المنهج شبه التجريبي The Impact of a Program Based on Education for Sustainability Principles in Developing Awareness of Climate Change and the Environmental Citizenship Values Among Middle School Students in Slum Areas. (vol.48, no.2; International Journal for Research in Education) Year of publication: 2024 Author: Nermin Awny Mohammad | Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelhady Corporate author: United Arab Emirates University The research aimed to investigate the impact of a program grounded in sustainability education principles on the development of climate change awareness and environmental citizenship values among second-grade middle school students residing in slum areas. The study utilized a quasi-experimental approach. 
Migration, displacement and education: building bridges, not walls; Global education monitoring report, youth report, 2019 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Global Education Monitoring Report Team The Education 2030 Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action specifies that the mandate of the Global Education Monitoring Report is to be ‘the mechanism for monitoring and reporting on SDG 4 and on education in the other SDGs’ with the responsibility to ‘report on the implementation of national and international strategies to help hold all relevant partners to account for their commitments as part of the overall SDG follow-up and review’. It is prepared by an independent team hosted by UNESCO. This is among the most aspirational global commitments of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Migration and displacement are two global challenges the agenda needs to address in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG4: ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. 
Improving the quality of teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from a UNESCO-China Funds-in-Trust project Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO The booklet describes how the project started, the choice of beneficiary countries, the implementation strategies and its achievements. The different sections numbered one to four describe particular aspects of the project, using country cases to illustrate how the success of the project was due to strong country ownership and leadership. UNESCO, in partnership with the Government of the People’s Republic of China, initiated the project to enhance the institutional capacity and the professional development of teacher educators through ICT-supported learning, teaching and research. This technology aided the transformation of capacity teacher training through digitalization of instructional materials. 
Integrating education for sustainable development (ESD) in teacher education in South-East Asia: a guide for teacher educators Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok This publication is a cumulative output of the project Sustainability Begins with Teachers in South-East Asia, implemented by UNESCO Bangkok, in cooperation with SEAMEO from 2017 to 2018, with the generous support of the Government of Japan. The initial content was developed together with the representatives of the universities and teacher education institutions who participated in the South-East Asia Sub-Regional Workshop on Education for Sustainable Development for Teacher Education Institutions, held from 5 to 9 June 2017 in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Content has since been enhanced through the sharing of knowledge and experiences gathered from a series of in-country workshops held in Cebu, Philippines; Luang Prabang, Lao PDR; Kampot, Cambodia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This culminated in a project review workshop in Bangkok from 24 to 26 April 2018 in which different in-country experiences were shared and comments on the guidebook collected. Twenty-six universities and teacher education institutions have taken part in the project process in total. This guidebook is a result of this collaborative journey. 
Meeting on Learning to Live Sustainably in Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Villa María, Argentina (26-28 April 2017): Meeting Report Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Villa Maríia, the first Argentinian city to join the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), co-hosted the first GNLC meeting in the region, titled ‘Learning to live sustainably in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean’. This three-day event was a joint effort of the City of Villa Maríia, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), UNESCO Headquarters, and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago). Participants explored new ways to implement sustainable solutions at the local level, as well as increase awareness and training related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). More than 170 city representatives from over 40 cities and 20 countries (including mayors and deputy mayors, experts, authorities and practitioners) were welcomed by the host city. The first day of the meeting was composed of plenary sessions; the second day consisted of two parallel workshop sessions: (1) a regional workshop on the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD and Cities, and (2) a regional workshop on learning cities. Aprender a Vivir de Manera Sostenible en Ciudades de América Latina y el Caribe, Villa María (Argentina), 26-28 de abril de 2017: informe de la reunión Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Villa Maríia, la primera ciudad argentina que entróo a formar parte de la Red Mundial de Ciudades del Aprendizaje de la UNESCO, fue una de las organizadoras de la primera reunióon de esta Red en la regióon, titulada “Aprender a vivir de manera sostenible en ciudades en Améerica Latina y el Caribe”. Este acto, de tres díias de duracióon, fue una iniciativa conjunta de la ciudad de Villa Maríia, el Instituto de la UNESCO para el Aprendizaje a lo Largo de Toda la Vida (IUAL), la Sede de la UNESCO y la Oficina Regional de Educacióon de la UNESCO para Améerica Latina y el Caribe (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago). Los participantes estudiaron nuevas formas de poner en práactica soluciones sostenibles a escala local, asíi como de fomentar una mayor sensibilizacióon y formacióon en materia de educacióon para el desarrollo sostenible (EDS). Villa Maríia acogióo a máas de 170 representantes de máas de 40 ciudades y 20 paíises, entre los que se encontraban alcaldes y tenientes de alcalde, expertos, autoridades y profesionales. Durante la primera jornada de la reunióon tuvieron lugar reuniones plenarias y la segunda jornada se dividióo en dos sesiones paralelas de talleres: 1) un taller regional sobre el Programa de Accióon Mundial de EDS y las ciudades, y 2) un taller regional sobre las ciudades del aprendizaje. 
Bridge Zambia Project Report Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Korean National Commission for UNESCO | Zambia National Commission for UNESCO The Bridge Zambia Project (the Project) has been implemented jointly between the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) and its partners in Zambia since October 2010. In March 2019, KNCU’s involvement in the Project will come to an end and Zambia will take over full responsibility for the Project as it goes forward. The Project has supported grassroots activities through the establishment of a Community Learning Centre (CLC), which acts as a hub of community-led development activities in non-formal education. The Project has mobilized and empowered communities and local leadership to take charge of non-formal education programmes with the aim of assisting Zambia to attain UNESCO’s Education for All goals and UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), concerning education quality.