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Climate Change Project Management Guide Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático (PNACC) This guide has 5 steps that allow the creation of projects aimed at the fight against climate change, the steps described here are: Identify the initiatives, know the information for action, articulate the proposal with planning instruments, evaluate the context and the key stakeholders of your initiative and identify sources of funding. All steps are described and examples are given. 
The Right to Non-Discrimination Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: National Commission for Human Rights This document talks about the concept of discrimination, its origins and the concepts that this phenomenon contains: stereotypes, prejudices, systematic discrimination. It also reviews the forms as discrimination is presented and its consequences, to later refer to the right to non-discrimination and what can be done in case of being a victim. 
Power, Politics and Democracy Year of publication: 2012 Author: Manuel Rojas Bolaños | Rotsay Rosales Valladares Corporate author: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) | Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos This material shows the main theoretical-conceptual approaches and the central historical elements of democracy as a political regime and form of organization of social life, in order to serve as a general context for the study of democracy in Costa Rica. 
Education for Life Socio-Emotional Education Program Year of publication: 2018 Author: José Fernando Mejía | Gloria Inés Rodríguez | Nancy Guerra | Andrea Bustamante | Maria Paula Chaparro | Melizza Castellanos Corporate author: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá This teacher's guide is part of the Emotions for Life program, which seeks to develop social-emotional competencies by providing tools so that teachers can promote them with their students. This first grade guide offers a set of practical sessions for working in the classroom. These competencies allow children to get to know each other better, manage their emotions, relate better with others, make responsible decisions, decrease aggression, and increase satisfaction with their life. 
National Education Responses to COVID-19: The Situation of Latin America and the Caribbean Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO The COVID-19 pandemic caused the greatest global, simultaneous interruption of education services in recent history. It has impacted over 90% of the worldwide student population from preschool to higher education.Latin American and Caribbean countries have engaged in enormous efforts to promote continuity of teaching and learning in this context. In spite of this, profound inequities persist in school systems that limit the capacity to reach the entire population.It is imperative to have information that contributes to guiding the actions that may mitigate or reverse the pandemic’s negative impacts on learning and educational inequities.This report presents a regional overview based on the results of the “Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19,” which was implemented by UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank between May and October 2020. 
Mind the Gap: The State of Girls’ Education in Crisis and Conflict Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This report summarizes progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities in improving education and training for girls and women affected by conflict and crisis. The report aims to support the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education’s commitment to enhance the evidence base and monitor progress toward gender-equitable education in crises. The report draws from data on 44 crisis-affected countries, from recent research, and from a set of case studies of interventions in a range of crisis-affected contexts. 
UNESCO Science Report: The Race Against Time for Smarter Development Year of publication: 2021 Author: Susan Schneegans | Tiffany Straza | Jake Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO This seventh edition of the report monitors the development path that countries have been following over the past five years from the perspective of science governance. It documents the rapid societal transformation under way, which offers new opportunities for social and economic experimentation but also risks exacerbating social inequalities, unless safeguards are put in place.The report concludes that countries will need to invest more in research and innovation, if they are to succeed in their dual digital and green transition. More than 30 countries have already raised their research spending since 2014, in line with their commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this progress, eight out of ten countries still devote less than 1% of GDP to research, perpetuating their dependence on foreign technologies. 
Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ Education: Evidence Briefing Year of publication: 2021 Author: Adrienne Monteath-van Dok | Anthony Davis | Nicholas Frost Corporate author: Plan International UK This paper highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the education of adolescent girls and boys. 
Strengthening Independent Media, One Case at a Time: A Handbook for Media Vability; Preview of a Forthcoming IPDC Knowledge Resource Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO “Strengthening Independent Media, One Case at a Time: A Handbook for Media Viability” will include case studies of innovative ideas from a wide variety of news media companies, mostly in the developing world, that are succeeding in difficult times and have lessons to share with others who are struggling. The handbook project was announced during the 65th meeting of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).This brochure includes highlights of some of the cases to be included, from community media in South Africa to a pure-play digital success in Indonesia, to a fact-checking network in Brazil to a covid response in Pakistan, and much more. The Handbook will be published in September 2021 and will be available for free on the website of the IPDC. 
Women in Higher Education: Has the Female Advantage Put an End to Gender Inequalities? Year of publication: 2021 Author: Daniele Vieira do Nascimento | Takudzwa Mutize | Jaime Felix Roser Chinchilla Corporate author: UNESCO Regardless of encouraging statistics on women access to higher education, women still encounter obstacles when seeking to occupy key academic positions in universities, to be involved with relevant research, and to take leadership roles.Women are overrepresented among teaching staff at lower education levels, while their presence is markedly lower in tertiary education (vertical segregation). The same is true in school management and education policymaking. Women are also still underrepresented as senior faculty and in higher education decision-making bodies in many countries.In the area of research, men publish on average more articles than women showing there is a gender publication gap. Differences in men ́s and women ́s academic publication persist and are most pronounced for publications in top journals.STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) areas of study show a heavy underrepresentation of female students in most countries. This underrepresentation of female students is closely linked to the underrepresentation of female researchers in those areas. Globally, the percentage of females studying engineering, manufacturing and construction or ICT (information and communications technology) is below 25% in over two- thirds of countries.During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, although submission of academic papers for publication increased in all months during the lockdown period, the rate of increase in submissions by female researchers was significantly less than those by male researchers. This deficit was also found to be especially pronounced among younger cohorts of female academics.