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SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee Input Paper for the 2024 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee In alignment with theHigh-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)’s focus for 2024, this SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee paper provides specific inputs as they relate to the following Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere; Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; and Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. 
SDG 4 Midterm Review: Monitoring Implementation of SDG 4 Target 4.1. ~ 4.c. in Rep. of Korea Year of publication: 2023 Author: Hunwoo Joo | Mikyung Kim | Mugyeong Moon | Jeongwon Hwang | Kirak Ryu | Hyeseung Cho | Yunjeong Choi | Hyosook Shin | Kyungsook Kang | Minseon Park | Eunju Lee | Jonghun Kim | Nayoung Kim | Hwanbo Park | Hannah Kim Corporate author: National Consultative Group on Education 2030 | Korean National Commission for UNESCO This report presents the compiled work from the National Consultative Group and Working Groups on Education 2030 of the Republic of Korea regarding the midterm review on the implementation of SDG 4. 
Monitoring Progress towards SDG Target 4.7 on Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team This document introduces key messages from the GEM Reports and other related publications and online resources regarding the progress towards SDG Target 4.7. 
[Video] The Ten Targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 4...with Elyx Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO This new UNESCO animation explaining the ten targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 4.Together with Elyx, the UN's first digital ambassador, discover how to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. 
SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee’s Key Messages for the Pact for the Future Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee Education is a fundamental human right and a public good. Quality education and lifelong learning provides individuals with knowledge, skills, and values to lead a meaningful and productive life, and thus it is essential for personal development, empowerment and wellbeing. Education has a transformative power and drives progress across all Sustainable Development Goals. Investing more, more equitably and more efficiently in education transforms the future of humanity and the planet. The Pact for the Future must put education at its center. 
How Can We Accelerate Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Insights from the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (Policy Brief, No. 158) Year of publication: 2024 Author: Stephanie Rambler | Shivani Nayyar | Astra Bonini Corporate author: UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN. DESA) Key Messages » Progress on the SDGs requires integrated approaches operating at a systemic level that address multiple goals simultaneously. Interventions toward progress on a given target must also generate positive synergies with other targets, while resolving tradeoffs. » Transformative change does not follow a linear path, and policy needs will vary across contexts and phases of transformation. Policies should respond to impediments unique to each phase– emergence, acceleration, or stabilization. » New capacities are needed in all countries for cohesive, forwardlooking, and science-based SDG action. This includes capacity in foresight analysis, innovation and strategy development, risk management, negotiation, mediation, and building resilience. » Investments need to be scaled up in science that can drive necessary transformations, especially in the Global South, including “socially robust” science that speaks to contemporary social challenges and that engages diverse stakeholders. 
Historical efforts to implement the UNESCO 1974 Recommendation on Education in light of 3 SDGs Targets Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO This paper presents an analytical overview of historical efforts by Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to implement the 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, cooperation and peace education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms. The author of the review was hired in April 2016 to undertake an analysis of Member States’ progress reports submitted for the fourth (2008) and fifth (2012) consultations on implementation of the 1974 Recommendation. The main purpose of the review was to provide a historical overview of efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets 4.7, 12.8 and 13.3 and their proposed measurement indicators, based on states’ historical reporting on the Recommendation. A total of 94 country reports were reviewed for the exercise: 37 from the 4th Consultation (2008); and 57 from the 5th Consultation (2012). The coding involved retrofitting the content of reportsto conceptsthat may have been developed at a later date for the Sustainable Development Agenda and coding for data that was not explicitly requested in the Consultations. Following the coding, a quantitative and qualitative analysis was undertaken and is presented in the following report. 
Unpacking Sustainable Development Goal 4 Education 2030: Guide Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO This guide, organized around a set of questions and answers to “unpack” SDG4, provides overall guidance for a deeper understanding of SDG4 within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in order to support its effective implementation. The guide outlines the key features of SDG4-Education 2030 and the global commitments expressed in the SDG4 targets as articulated in the Incheon Declaration and the Education 2030 Framework for Action. The guide also examines the implications of translating these global commitments within, and through, national education development efforts. This guide supplements the UNESCO technical guidelines (2016) for Mainstreaming SDG4-Education 2030 into sector-wide policy and planning. It was developed by Sobhi Tawil, Margarete Sachs-Israel, Huong Le Thu, and Matthias Eck of the UNESCO Section of Partnerships, Cooperation and Research (PCR) within the Division for Education 2030 Support and Coordination. 
Kindness: The Force That Will Help Us Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (The Blue Dot Issue 11, 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In the eleventh issue of The Blue Dot, we focus on ‘Kindness’ – as the force that will help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, towards making the world more peaceful and sustainable – a better place to live in the future for our children. We hear from Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India on ‘The Need for Kindness and Compassion – Embodying the values of Mahatma Gandhi’, experts such as Zoran Josipovic on the neuroscience behind kindness; Michael Karlin and Brendran Ozawa-De Silve on the science and theory behind kindness, and from educators (Vicki Zakrzewski and John-Tyler Binfet) on how kindness can be practiced in our classrooms.Our cover story on ‘Kindness – the force to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ discusses the biology of kindness, how kindness can help us achieve the SDGs and Kindness and SDGs and the Youth. Further, we have a hand-picked collection of youth stories on kindness, extracted from the 7,300+ stories we have from 120 countries around the world as part of UNESCO MGIEP’s #KindnessMatters for the SDGs youth campaign. 
Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education: The Key to Unlocking SDG 4 - Quality Education for All Year of publication: 2017 Author: Matt Wisbey Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok This brochure, designed as a bright and bold resource to be used with policy makers and other key stakeholders, explores the reasons why mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) is the key to quality lifelong learning opportunities for all. Linking the key elements of MTB-MLE with SDG4’s targets, it outlines the benefits for both individual learners and society as a whole.