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Leaving No One Behind: Impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Flagship Publication Year of publication: 2021 Author: Babatunde Abidoye | Joanna Felix | Serge Kapto | Laurel Patterson Corporate author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures This report by UNDP, in partnership with the Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver, is part of a series examining the impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a potential pathway for socioeconomic recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The analysis explores a range of possible future effects of COVID-19 on different aspects of development while also highlighting the benefits of bold choices that can power the global recovery effort, accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, and support investments that reap long-term benefits for sustainable development.This second flagship report extends the analysis to the People and Prosperity pillars of the 2030 Agenda and focuses on 69 countries in the low and medium human development groups. Pre-existing structural limitations and systemic challenges in their health and education systems, combined with porous safety nets and fiscal constraints, put low and medium human development countries at risk of being disproportionately impacted by the regressive effects of the pandemic and left further behind in SDG achievement. 
Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in a World Reshaped by COVID-19: Foundational Research Report Year of publication: 2021 Author: Barry B. Hughes | Taylor Hanna | Kaylin McNeil | David K. Bohl | Jonathan D. Moyer Corporate author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures This report advances existing monitoring and forecasting initiatives in three ways. First, it provides, for selected goals and targets, especially those related to human development, projections for the path of progress that the world seemed to be on prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, despite the still very high levels of uncertainty around the ultimate course of the pandemic, it considers the possible impact on longer-term progress. Third, it explores the potential impact of a broad and integrated program of initiatives intended to move us more quickly toward achieving the goals.The SDG Push scenario successfully increases the rate of progress toward the targets sufficiently to overcome the global losses of even the High Damage COVID scenario before 2030 for most target variables. On top of the baseline COVID scenario it greatly increases the number of countries reaching target levels by 2030 and 2050. 
Readiness for Education for the Future: A Safe and Sustainable Return to Teaching and Learning Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Regional Center for Quality and Excellence in Education (RCQE) Predicting the future of quality education is a complex process, but it is an inevitable necessity, and anticipation and preparation for every new and changing must be the goal of education in its present and future. Today, education in all countries of the world faces unprecedented challenges, most notably the Corona pandemic, Covid-19, in conjunction with previous challenges of acceleration in knowledge and technological development, as well as economic crises and conflicts in some countries, unfamiliar contexts that made this symposium review the issue of education and its safe return to it after Corona pandemic. جاهزية التعليم للمستقبل: العودة الآمنة والمستدامة للتعليم والتعلم Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Regional Center for Quality and Excellence in Education (RCQE) التنبؤ بمستقبل جودة التعليم عملية معقدة إلا أنها ضرورة حتمية، والتحسب والاستعداد لكل مستجد ومتغير يجب أن يكون غاية التربية في حاضرها ومستقبلها. اليوم يواجه التعليم في جميع دول العالم تحديات غير مسبوقة أبرزها جائحة كورونا Covid-19 بتزامن مع تحديات سابقة من تسارع في التطور المعرفي والتكنولوجي، وكذلك أزمات اقتصادية وصراعات في بعض الدول، سياقات غير مألوفة جعلت من عملية تستعرض هذه الندوة قضية التعليم والعودة الامنة له بعد جائحة كورونا. 
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 | Nayoung Kim | Hwanbo Park | Hannah Kim | Jonghun 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. 
Humanitarian Action for Children in the Middle East and North Africa for 2023: Fast Facts Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Total number of children in the region: over 191.2 million Total refugee children: 6.4 million Children in need: around 52.7 million Total internally displaced children: over 6.9 million UNICEF MENA is appealing for US$ 2.6 billion to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crises and children’s humanitarian needs around the region. العمـل الإنسـاني مـن أجـل الأطفـال في الشـرق الأوسـط وشـمال أفريقيا للعام ٢٠٢٣; حقائـق سـريعة Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNICEF Middle East and North Africa إجمالي عدد الأطفال في المنطقة: أكثر من 191.2 مليون طفلالأطفال المحتاجون: 52.7 مليون طفلمجموع النازحين من الأطفال: أكثر من 6.4 ملايين طفلمجموع اللاجئين من الأطفال: 6.4 مليون طفلتطلق اليونيسف نداءً للحصول على 2,6 مليار دولار أمريكي للاستجابة للأزمات الإنسانية المستمرة واحتياجات الأطفال الإنسانية في المنطقة. 
Global Kids Online: Comparative Report Year of publication: 2019 Author: Sonia Livingstone | Daniel Kardefelt-Winther | Marium Saeed Corporate author: UNICEF Innocenti The internet is often celebrated for its ability to aid children’s development. But it is simultaneously criticized for reducing children’s quality of life and exposing them to unknown and unprecedented dangers. There is considerable debate about when or how children’s rights – including the rights to expression, to privacy, to information, to play and to protection from harm, as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – may be realized or infringed in the digital age.With more children around the world going online every day, it is more important than ever to clarify how the internet can advance children’s opportunities in life while safeguarding them from harm or abuse. This requires evidence, from children themselves, that represents the diversity of children’s experiences at the national and global levels. By talking to children, we are better able to understand not only the barriers they face in accessing the internet, but also the opportunities they enjoy and the skills and competences they acquire by engaging in these activities.This allows us to enquire about children’s exposure to online risks and possible harms, and about the role of their parents as mediators and sources of support. In bringing children’s own voices and experiences to the centre of policy development, legislative reform and programme and service delivery, we hope the decisions made in these spheres will serve children’s best interests. 
Teachers Guide on the SDGs Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) This teaching guide, aimed at grade level K-12, gives an introduction and historical background to the SDGs. Key questions along with primary resources are provided to facilitate comprehension and engage students critically. Through analysis of the Preamble to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the connection will be made to the Millenium Development Goals and Human Rights, to demonstrate continuity and evolution of certain principle values held by the international community. Focus then shifts to SDG 4, quality education, so that students can ore clearly analyze the progress that has been made regarding this topic on a micro level. 
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN. DESA) The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. Women have not recovered lost jobs and income, hunger is on the rise, and school closures threaten girls’ educational gains. Women’s participation in government, research and resource management remains far from equal. Vulnerable groups of women, including migrants, those with disabilities and those affected by conflict, are frequently left behind. Disparities between rich and poor countries are preventing equal access to lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, putting women in poorer countries at disproportionate risk. Moreover, despite women’s central roles in responding to COVID-19, including as front-line health workers, they do not have the leadership positions they deserve. Building forward differently and better will require placing women and girls at the centre of all aspects of response and recovery, including through gender- responsive laws, policies and budgeting.Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021 presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the progress made since 2015 but also the continued alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, its immediate effect on women’s well-being and the threat it poses to future generations.