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Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This 2019 edition of The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades, one third of children under age 5 are malnourished – stunted, wasted or overweight – while two thirds are at risk of malnutrition and hidden hunger because of the poor quality of their diets. At the center of this challenge is a broken food system that fails to provide children with the diets they need to grow healthy. This report also provides new data and analyses of malnutrition in the 21st century and outlines recommendations to put children’s rights at the heart of food systems. 
Every Child Learns: UNICEF Education Strategy 2019–2030 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The gap between the levels of learning that education systems are providing and what children, communities and economies need, is growing. The breadth and depth of this learning crisis constitute the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work and active citizenship. The lesson of the learning crisis is clear: the conventional assembly of education inputs is not improving learning outcomes. This presents a fundamental challenge to the way that governments, development partners and communities are managing and supporting education systems. A new, more radical approach that focusses on enhancing learning outcomes is long overdue and forms the basis for this strategy.The report also outlines the shift towards a greater focus on improving learning outcomes, including supporting the breadth of skills that allow young people to become agile, adaptive learners and citizens, equipped to navigate personal, social, academic, economic and environmental challenges. 
Paving the Road to Education: A Target-by-Target Analysis of SDG 4 for Asia and the Pacific Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok The globally adopted development agenda “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” has established ambitious intentions that build on the past Millennium Development Goals but also expand on their achievements.The Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education propels forward the vision of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all through a holistic, aspirational and systematic education agenda. Education monitoring is an integral part in this process.This publication delivers a data-rich snapshot of Sustainable Development Goal 4, its targets and their monitoring indicators while analyzing available data through a lens of inequality.Assessing the progress which countries have made in the recent past as well as where countries currently stand, this publication sets a baseline against which Member States from Asia and the Pacic are able to monitor progress in achieving the Goal 4 over time but at latest by 2030.Finally, after discussing emerging opportunities and remaining challenges in the region, this publication seeks to assist Member States in identifying what steps can be taken to ensure that the region will achieve the new education agenda. 
ENVISION 4.7: ROADMAP IN SUPPORT OF SDG TARGET 4.7 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Bridge 47 In November 2019, 200 policy makers, civil society members and researchers from all over the world got together in Helsinki to make a roadmap for the future implementation of SDG Target 4.7 in Europe. The participants of the Envision 4.7 event held in Helsinki, 6th and 7th November 2019, made this document to contribute to the achievement of Target 4.7 of the universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This document was shaped and influenced by the expertise and insight of everyone who came to the conference. Bridge 47 is calling on this collective knowledge and community of experts to continue moving these recommendations forward as we all aim to achieve SDG Target 4.7 and use transformative education as a mechanism for achieving all of the Sustainable Development Goals. 
Global Framework for Refugee Education Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Global Refugee Forum Education Co-Sponsorship Alliance | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) This Global Framework for Refugee Education has been produced by the Global Refugee Forum’s Education Co-Sponsorship Alliance, comprising more than 60 partners. It aims to help partners to translate the Global Compact on Refugees and the Refugee Education 2030: A Strategy for Refugee Inclusion into pledges for concrete action to help achieve inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. 
SDG 4 Data Digest: How to Produce and Use the Global and Thematic Education Indicators Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) This edition of the SDG 4 Data Digest from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) aims to help countries develop and report the indicators needed to deliver on the promise of Sustainable Development Goal 4 – a quality education for all by 2030.It stresses the urgency: every child in the generation that should finish secondary education by the deadline should be in a primary classroom right now. Yet if current trends continue, and without a rapid shift from “business as usual”, one in six children aged 6 to 17 will still be out of school in 2030 while just six in ten youth will be completing secondary education. Moreover, there is an urgent need to improve the quality of education on offer. According to UIS estimates, 55% of children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and 60% are not acquiring critical skills in mathematics The investment case for education is clear and has been repeated time and time again: education reduces poverty, improves health and nutrition, advances equity and drives national prosperity. But education systems cannot function effectively without a clear picture of progress – or the lack of it – and without knowing who is missing out on education and why.To help ll such gaps, the Digest focuses on new methodologies to help countries build a full and accurate understanding of their own education successes and challenges while generating the internationally comparable data needed for global monitoring. Through these methodological tools, countries can track and accelerate progress on their own education priorities and contribute to the global achievement of SDG4. Compendio de Datos sobre el ODS 4: Cómo producir y utilizar los indicadores globales y temáticos sobre educación Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) La presente edición del Compendio de Datos ODS 4 publicada por el Instituto de Estadística de la UNESCO (UIS) pretende a ayudar a los países a desarrollar y reportar los indicadores que se requerirán para cumplir la promesa del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 4 – una educación de calidad para todos de aquí al 2030. Se pone énfasis en la urgencia: todo niño que forma parte de la generación que debería concluir la educación secundaria dentro del plazo, debería estar en un aula de primaria hoy. Sin embargo, si la actual tendencia continúa, y de no mediar un drástico cambio, uno de cada seis niños entre 6 y 17 años aún estará fuera de la escuela en 2030 y solo seis de cada diez jóvenes habrán completado su educación secundaria. Adicionalmente, existe la urgente necesidad de mejorar la calidad de la educación que hoy se ofrece. De acuerdo con estimaciones del UIS, el 55% de los niños y adolescentes en edad de cursar educación primaria y educación secundaria baja no están adquiriendo niveles mínimos de competencia en lectura y 60% no está adquiriendo competencias fundamentales en matemáticas. El caso de inversión para la educación es claro y se ha repetido una y otra vez: la educación reduce la pobreza, mejora la salud y la nutrición, promueve la equidad y fomenta la prosperidad nacional. Sin embargo, los sistemas educativos no pueden funcionar en forma eficiente si no cuentan con un escenario claro - o con ningún escenario - del avance y sin saber quién no está recibiendo educación y por qué. Para ayudar a cerrar estas brechas, el Compendio se centra en nuevas metodologías que ayudan a los países a desarrollar una clara y completa visión de sus propios éxitos y desafíos en materia de educación, al tiempo que genera los datos internacionalmente comparables necesarios para el monitoreo global. A través de estas herramientas metodológicas, los países podrán rastrear y acelerar el avance de sus propias prioridades de educación y contribuir al logro global del ODS 4. Rapport sur les données de l’ODD 4: Comment produire et utiliser les indicateurs mondiaux et thématiques de l’éducation Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) La présente édition du Rapport sur les données de l’ODD 4 de l’Institut de statistique de l’UNESCO (ISU) vise à aider les pays à élaborer et à fournir les indicateurs nécessaires pour respecter la promesse de l’Objectif de développement durable 4 (ODD 4) : assurer l’accès de tous à une éducation de qualité d’ici 2030. Il insiste sur l’urgence que chaque enfant de la génération qui doit achever le cycle secondaire à l’échéance 2030 soit inscrit dans le primaire dès aujourd’hui. Cependant, si la tendance actuelle et le statu quo se poursuivent, un enfant de 6 à 17 ans sur six ne sera toujours pas scolarisé en 2030, et seuls six jeunes sur dix achèveront le cycle secondaire. Par ailleurs, il est urgent d’améliorer la qualité de l’éducation offerte. Selon les estimations de l’ISU, 55 % des enfants et des adolescents en âge de fréquenter le primaire et le premier cycle du secondaire n’atteignent pas les seuils minimaux de compétence en lecture, et 60 % n’acquièrent pas ces seuils en mathématiques. Les arguments en faveur de l’investissement dans l’éducation sont clairs et ont été répétés à maintes reprises : l’éducation réduit la pauvreté, améliore la santé et la nutrition, fait avancer l’équité et stimule la prospérité nationale. Mais les systèmes éducatifs ne peuvent pas fonctionner efficacement s’ils ne disposent pas du tableau des progrès accomplis – ou de leur absence – et sans savoir ce dont manque l’éducation et pourquoi. Pour contribuer à combler ces lacunes, le Rapport se concentre sur les nouvelles méthodologies pour aider les pays à développer une compréhension précise de leurs progrès, de leurs succès et de leurs défis dans le domaine de l’éducation, tout en produisant des données comparables sur le plan international pour le suivi mondial. Ces outils méthodologiques leur donneront les moyens de suivre et d’accélérer les progrès accomplis pour atteindre leurs propres priorités éducatives et contribuer à la réalisation de l’ODD 4. 
Achieving gender equality in and through education Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: GPE The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape in gender equality in education and spark discussion and debate around potential areas for Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) investment. The paper is part of a series of discussion papers, drafted to support the engagement and consultation of developing country partners and technical experts in the initial design of the GPE Knowledge and Innovation Exchange. Réaliser l’égalité entre les sexes, dans et par l’éducation Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: GPE Le présent document a pour objet de décrire la situation actuelle de l’égalité entre les sexes dans l’éducation et d’encourager l’examen des domaines dans lesquels le KIX pourrait investir. Il fait partie d’une série de documents de travail établis pour soutenir la consultation des pays en développement partenaires et des experts techniques, et les faire participer à la conception initiale du Mécanisme de partage de connaissances et d’innovations du PME. Les idées qu’il présente doivent servir de point de départ aux discussions et pourraient sensiblement évoluer au fil du processus de consultation.