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Evaluation of UNESCO’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO This evaluation report summarises the findings of a comprehensive evaluation on how UNESCO has adapted and responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. It describes and assesses the relevance and effectiveness of UNESCO’s programmatic response across all of its Sectors, and reviews how efficiently the Organization adapted itself to ensure business continuity during the pandemic. With an overall focus on learning, the evaluation identified a series of lessons and useful innovations made during the pandemic. The report’s five recommendations aim to guide UNESCO towards sustaining useful innovations and further increasing the crisis resilience of its operations and programme. 
School Online Safety - Self review tool Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: South West Grid for Learning Trust (SWGfL) The Self Review Tool is intended to help schools to review their current online safety policy and practice. It provides management information and stimulus that can influence the production or review of online safety policies and develop good practice and process for identifying strengths and weaknesses. It also focuses on opportunities for commitment and involvement from the whole school as well as a continuum for schools to discuss how they might move from a basic level provision for online safety to practice that is aspirational and innovative. 
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD 2005-2014): the first two years Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: UNESCO The implementation of the DESD has made considerable progress since its international launch in March 2005. Apart from regional and national launches, progress has been achieved in both institutional and programmatic areas at international, regional and national levels. The objective of this report is not solely to highlight and showcase to Member States all that has been achieved in the two years since the international launch. The report also takes stock of on-going UNESCO initiatives, established prior to the Decade, which are providing major contributions to the implementation of the DESD, and thus cannot be by-passed. Equally important are the recommendations to remedy problems in the implementation of the DESD and strengthen those measures that are working efficiently. 
Review of contexts and structures for education for sustainable development 2009: key findings & ways forward Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO This document suggests key findings and ways forward in review of the contexts and strctures of education for sustainable development. 
Regional handbook on life skills programmes for non-formal education Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO Office Bangkok The Regional Handbook on Life Skills Programme for Non-formal Education (NFE) was developed for education policy makers, experts in curriculum development, materials development and trainers of personnel in the field of NFE, NFE practitioners such as Community Learning Centres (CLCs) personnel, teachers and facilitators, and researchers. It aims to provide information about life skills programmes and to serve as a practical guide to implement educational programmes to enhance life skills. It is expected to help NFE personnel with adopting, adapting and integrating life skills programmes in NFE. This Handbook consists of two parts as follows: Part one- overview of Life Skills Programme for Non-formal Education (NFE), Part Two- Practical Guide on Integrating Life Skills Programme in NFE. Part One provides answers to various questions related to life skills and life skills progrmmes. Part Two intends to provide practical information about the systematic planning and implementation of life skills programmes for NFE. It offers suggested steps for curriculum development, development of teaching and learning materials, delivery of life skills programmes and monitoring and evaluation strategies. Details of this process are elaborated for NFE practitioners at various levels, but in particular at the community level. This Handbook was developed based on the project outputs of UNESCO Bangkok's 'Life Skills Learning through Non-formal Education" carried out in Asia and the Pacific region from 2003-2006 within the framework of Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL). The project consisted of country studies, regional meetings, pilot projects and action research in selected countries in the region. A group of experts from the region consolidated the main outputs of the project and developed this Handbook through a series of workshops in 2006-2007 in coordination with UNESCO Bangkok and the office of Non-formal and Informal Education (ONIE) of Thailand Ministry of Education. In addition, resource materials of various organizations including United Nations agencies, government institutions, universities and NGOs were also collected and used for developing this Handbook. 
Terrorism, Religious and Ethnic Intolerance Issues in the Syllabuses and Textbooks of Bengali and English Medium and Madrasah Education in Bangladesh an Appraisal Year of publication: 2014 Author: NM Sajjadul Hoque The author argues that education is a catalyst for social change and a powerful instrument for overcoming social and security problems. In other words, the author believes that syllabuses and textbooks of both the general and madrasa education streams of Bangladesh have a significant role in educating people to counter terrorism as well as religious and ethnic intolerance. This paper attempts, however, by reviewing the current syllabuses and textbooks of general and madrasa education streams, and also by assessing peoples’ opinions in Bangladesh, to know whether the syllabuses and text books are adequately addressing, or not, the issues of terrorism and religious and ethnic intolerance. Israeli Youth Pilgrimages to Poland. Rationale and Polemics The article, based on material collected as part of a project evaluating the pilgrimage trips to Poland by Israeli adolescents as part of the Holocaust curriculum, attempts to provide the reader with the background for these trips. In this context, the authors discuss the evolving national agenda in Israel, and the transition from experiencing independence to experiencing the Holocaust. The authors of the article stress that in the wake of the profound social changes that took place in Israeli society, the memory of the Holocaust gained new significance among the country’s national priorities. While a policy known as “the great silence” regarding the Holocaust prevailed among the first generation after statehood, the Holocaust has now become a factor that shaped the national ethos. In 1979, for the first time, the Ministry of Education commissioned two curricula dealing exclusively with the Holocaust. The article notes that the Holocaust and its lessons can be examined from three different perspectives: The first focuses on presenting the universal significance of the Holocaust and perceiving it as parallel to other cases of genocide. The second focuses on presenting the national significance of the Holocaust as a unique and unparalleled case of the Jewish People. The perception held by this approach is actually “the whole world is against us.” The third perspective is a synthesis of these two approaches. In this article, the authors note that the longstanding debate in Israeli society over the various methods for instilling the Holocaust and the journeys to Poland by adolescents expresses these three perspectives. (By the author) 国連持続可能な開発のための教育の10年中間年レビューESDの文脈と構造 Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO This document suggests key findings and ways forward in review of the contexts and strctures of education for sustainable development. Review of UNESCO culture sector's work on intercultural dialogue with a specific focus on: the general and regional histories, the slave route and cultural routes projects, plan Arabia, alliance of civilizations 'International vademecum' projects Year of publication: 2011 Author: Julie Carpenter Corporate author: UNESCO This review was commissioned from Education for Change Ltd by Internal Oversight Services (IOS) in UNESCO during June 2011 and completed in September 2011. The purpose of the review was to generate findings and recommendations regarding the relevance and effectiveness of the following priority initiatives on intercultural dialogue: • The General and Regional Histories (and related activities) • The Slave and Cultural Route projects (and related activities) • Plan Arabia • The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) projects funded by the Government of Spain. The majority of activities in these flagship initiatives have been HQ-led and implemented with limited or no input from the field. Intersectoral work, essential to the effective implementation of the flagship initiatives and associated activities, was constrained by structural and budgeting factors common to most cross-sectoral work in UNESCO. Dissemination of the outputs of all the projects, with the possible exception of The Slave Route Project, has been a major and continuing challenge. The conception, writing, editing and direction of the Histories over more than 50 years have been the responsibility of an individual ISC for each History collection, supported by the UNESCO Secretariat in CLT. This highly participatory but complex process has caused delays and frustrations. However, the relevance of the Histories’ approach to history has not diminished over time. The interdisciplinary Histories have also been subject to the typical constraints within UNESCO of working across sectors. The use and re-use of the content in the Histories has recently been constrained by complex issues relating to co-publication and copyright covering volumes and illustrations and authors rights. The urgency of resolving these issues has arisen because of pressure from Member States to make the content of the Histories freely available online to enable access by institutions and individuals unable to afford the high costs of the published, printed volumes. The expensive printed formats selected for the Histories were predicated on the flawed assumption that university, college and public libraries exist in all countries that could afford to purchase relevant volumes and thus make available the content to researchers and the public. Overall effectiveness of these publications to date is impossible to measure, in terms of levels of takeup and use in universities or research for example, because over the years very limited data have been consistently or systematically collected, and little research or analysis has been done to determine the influence of the content of the Histories on written or broadcast material on history, on conference presentations etc. 2 Despite these constraints, the successful end in 2009 of this massive effort of developing, writing and publishing the history collections can and should be regarded as a significant achievement in itself, in which UNESCO has been effective in overcoming many problems and set-backs to achieve the completion of a project that only UNESCO itself, unique among all the international and UN bodies, could have achieved. Global education in Austria Corporate author: North-South Centre of the Council | of Europe This National Report on Global Education in Austria is part of the European Global Education Peer Review Process, which was initiated in 2002 with the purpose of increasing and improving global education in Council of Europe member states. This report is the culmination of a peer review process led by an international peer review team. Through research and interviews with key stakeholders, information was gathered and critical perspectives developed about the current state of, and the future prospects for, global education in Austria. This year–long process, facilitated by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, was developed in partnership with the Austrian Strategy Group for Global Education as the national counterpart in the process. It involved the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), KommEnt, and the NGO and academic communities.This Peer Review report recognises the relatively strong tradition of global education in Austria. Austrian support for GE is reflected in the range of committed organisations involved in GE, and the many initiatives and projects in the formal and non-formal education sectors, and in civil society. Chapter 1 below provides an introduction to the report and the process generally. Chapter 2 outlines the context of global education in Austria. Chapter 3 examines global education in the formal education sector. Chapter 4 focuses on the important and varied work taking place in non-formal education, civil society organisations and other sectors in this field. Chapter 5 provides, in summary fashion, an outline of the key observations and recommendations of the Peer Review.