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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. 
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. 
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. 
FramerSpace Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) FramerSpace is an AI-powered digital platform where the curriculum’s content can be implemented in a multi-modal environment, data collected in an open and transparent manner and analysis done with ease and the highest data analytics capabilities in the pursuit of implementing personalised learning plans in a teacher driven setting. From the Content creator’s point of view, FramerSpace offers rich content creation abilities including embedding Audio, Rich Text, Video, Journaling, Games (developed using Unity/Phaser) to name a few. The platform framework design has been made extremely intuitive and powerful to help reduce the learning curve for creators significantly and make it look significantly different than any existing learning system out there. Creators are further armed with the real-time Emotion Analysis insights related to course reviews and related discussions and facilitated dialogues. These insights would help creators identify the emotion shift on pertinent topics and identify influencers by studying context-specific trends. FramerSpace has embedded analytics that helps creators always be mindful of what is working and what is not in terms of the learning outcomes of the respective courses. Predictive analytics within FramerSpace can potentially help creators take pro-active actions, especially in the case of at-risk learners who may be on the verge of dropping out. URL: https://framerspace.com/ 
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) Four years after signing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, countries have taken action to integrate the Goals and targets into their national development plans and to align policies and institutions behind them. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019 uses the latest available data to track global progress on the SDGs and to take stock of how far we have come in realizing our commitments. The report shows that, while advances have been made in some areas, monumental challenges remain. The evidence and data spotlight areas that require urgent attention and more rapid progress to realize the 2030 Agenda’s far-reaching vision. Member States agree that these challenges and commitments are interrelated and call for integrated solutions. It is therefore imperative to take a holistic view of the 2030 Agenda and to identify the highest impact areas in order to target interventions. The most urgent area for action is climate change. If we do not cut record-high greenhouse gas emissions now, global warming is projected to reach 1.5°C in the coming decades. As we are already seeing, the compounded effects will be catastrophic and irreversible: increasing ocean acidification, coastal erosion, extreme weather conditions, the frequency and severity of natural disasters, continuing land degradation, loss of vital species and the collapse of ecosystems. These effects, which will render many parts of the globe uninhabitable, will affect the poor the most. They will put food production at risk, leading to widespread food shortages and hunger, and potentially displace up to 140 million people by 2050. The clock for taking decisive actions on climate change is ticking. The other defining issue of our time is increasing inequality among and within countries. Poverty, hunger and disease continue to be concentrated in the poorest and most vulnerable groups of people and countries. Over 90 per cent of maternal deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Three quarters of all stunted children live in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. People living in fragile States are twice as likely to lack basic sanitation, and about four times as likely to lack basic drinking water services as people in non-fragile situations. Youth are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults. Women and girls perform a disproportionate share of unpaid domestic work and lack autonomy in decision-making. Just as problems are interrelated, the solutions to poverty, inequality, climate change and other global challenges are also interlinked. Valuable opportunities exist to accelerate progress by examining interlinkages across Goals. For example, tackling climate change requires a shift to clean energy, reversing the trend in forest loss, and changing our production and consumption patterns. Promoting sustainable agriculture can help reduce both hunger and poverty, since close to 80 per cent of those who are extremely poor live in rural areas. Increasing access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene can save millions of lives per year and improve school attendance. Improving proficiency in reading and mathematics of some 200 million children who are falling behind in sub-Saharan Africa will help them climb out of poverty and ultimately enable the region to better compete in the global marketplace. This report also highlights the importance of investing in data for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Most countries do not regularly collect data for more than half of the global indicators. The lack of accurate and timely data on many marginalized groups and individuals makes them “invisible” and exacerbates their vulnerability. While considerable effort has been made to address these data gaps over the past four years, progress has been limited. Increased investment is urgently needed to ensure that adequate data are available to inform decision-making on all aspects of the 2030 Agenda. Towards that end, the Dubai Declaration, launched at the second World Data Forum in October 2018, outlines a demand-driven funding mechanism under Member States’ oversight that will respond quickly and efficiently to the priorities of national statistical systems. 
Social and emotional learning (The Blue Dot Issue 10, 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The tenth edition of The Blue DOT focuses on different aspects of social and emotional learning, including the neurosciences, teacher training, frameworks such as CASEL and SEE Learning and systemic SEL, amongst others. The issue includes a Foreword by Dr. Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, and our Cover Story that focuses on how SEL can help to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, it features interviews and opinions from some of the world’s most prominent SEL experts on the importance of integrating SEL in our education systems. Amongst various experts, we hear from Kimberly Schonert-Reichl on her journey in SEL, Robert W. Roeser on “Educating the Head, the Heart and the Hand in the 21st Century” as well as Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph L. Mahoney on “What is Systemic Social and Emotional Learning and Why Does it Matter”? Further, a featured article with responses to a survey by teachers from 4 countries (Bhutan, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka), following the launch of the Institute’s SEL modules on Global Citizenship in a workshop conducted in New Delhi, India in April 2019 is presented. The modules have been rendered on MGIEP’s in house Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven digital platform now called FramerSpace (formerly CHI) and allow the student to have an interactive, instantaneous feedback and immersive experience while addressing contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism and violence. 
Right to Education Handbook Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Right to Education Initiative (UK) The ultimate aim of this handbook is to facilitate the realization and universal enjoyment of the right to education. Its objective is not to present the right to education as an abstract, conceptual, or purely legal concept, but rather to be action-oriented. Where possible, practical guidance is given on how to implement and monitor the right to education along with recommendations to overcome persistent barriers. It seeks to do this by: Increasing awareness and knowledge of the right to education. This includes the normative content of the right to education, states’ legal obligations, the various sources of law regarding the right to education, what states must do to domestically implement the right to education, how to monitor the right to education, and how to increase accountability of the right to education. Providing a summary of current debates and issues regarding education and what human rights law says about them, including on forced migration, education in emergencies, the privatization of education, and the challenge of reaching the most marginalized. Providing an overview of the UN landscape and its mechanisms, including a clear understanding of the role of UNESCO and more generally the UN, as well as all relevant stakeholders in education, particularly civil society. UNESCO’s Strategy on standard-setting instruments in the field of education (2016-2021) encourages Member States of the Organization to use normative action in relation with the right to education as a strategic tool to implement and achieve SDG4. In line with this, this handbook – specifically foreseen by the Strategy– will also serve as a reference tool for the design and organization of training modules and workshops in the field of right to education. Finally, the handbook will also be an important reference for those working towards the achievement of SDG4, by offering guidance on how to leverage legal commitment to the right to education as a strategic way to achieve this goal. 
Global Education Monitoring Report, 2019: Migration, Displacement and Education: Building Bridges, Not Walls Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report examines the education impact of migration and displacement across all population movements: within and across borders, voluntary and forced, for employment and education. It also reviews progress on education in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Two new global compacts on migrants and refugees recognize education’s role and set objectives aligned with the global commitment to leave no one behind. This report is a vital toolkit for these compacts. It covers policy issues that address seasonal migrants, rural school consolidation, intercultural curricula, refugee inclusion in national education systems and elimination of segregation, qualifications recognition, targeting of school funding, more effective humanitarian education aid and teacher preparedness for diverse classrooms in emergency, protracted and “new normal” contexts.The report calls on countries to see education as a tool to manage migration and displacement and an opportunity for those needing one. Informe de seguimiento de la educación en el mundo, 2019: Migración, desplazamientos y educación: construyendo puentes, no muros Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team La edición 2019 del Informe de Seguimiento de la Educación en el Mundo examina la incidencia de la migración y los desplazamientos en la educación considerando todos los movimientos de población: dentro y fuera de las fronteras, voluntarios y forzados, con fifines de empleo y de educación. Examina asimismo los progresos realizados con miras a la consecución del objetivo de educación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.Dos nuevos pactos mundiales sobre los migrantes y refugiados reconocen el papel de la educación y establecen objetivos acordes con el compromiso mundial de no dejar a nadie atrás. Este informe es un conjunto de herramientas vital para la aplicación de estos pactos. Aborda temas de política que abarcan los migrantes estacionales, la concentración de las escuelas rurales, los planes de estudio interculturales, la inclusión de los refugiados en los sistemas educativos nacionales y la lucha contra la segregación, el reconocimiento de las cualifificaciones, la orientación de la fifinanciación escolar a destinos específificos, una ayuda humanitaria más efificaz dedicada a la educación, y la preparación de los docentes para hacer frente a un alumnado de gran diversidad.Este informe exhorta a los países a considerar la educación como una herramienta para gestionar la migración y los desplazamientos y una oportunidad para quienes la necesitan.