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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. 
The Global State of Play: Report and Recommendations on Quality Physical Education Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Loughborough University Active lifestyles are key to ensuring both individual well-being and sustainable, social development. Quality Physical Education (QPE) plays a key role in achieving this by fostering lifelong physical activity, improving young people’s mental and emotional well-being, and developing critical life skills. UNESCO’s sport initiative, Fit for Life, advocates QPE as a cost-effective investment. Despite its potential as a core curricula subject, UNESCO data reveal that PE is often under-prioritized and due to a lack of investment in certain areas, such as staff training and facilities, potential benefits are not fully realised for students around the world. This investment gap connects directly to a delivery gap. Although 83% of countries worldwide report PE as compulsory in schools, there remain significant issues with the quality of delivery and the diversity of lesson planning within curricula:• Only 1 in 3 secondary school students worldwide meet the minimum requirement of 180 minutes of PE minutes per week set out in UNESCO’s Quality Physical Education Policy Guidelines.• Only 61.7% of schools fully include students with disabilities alongside their peers without disabilities in PE classes.• Only 7.1% of schools implement equal PE time for boys and girls, despite 54.5% of countries having policies or plans for it. Policymakers, PE practitioners and academia are encouraged to take action to implement PE policies, increase investment in PE, upskill PE teachers, enhance PE curricula and promote more equitable and inclusive PE environment. 
Global Education Meeting: Fortaleza Declaration; Unlocking the Transformative Power of Education for Peaceful, Equitable and Sustainable Futures Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Brazil. Ministry of Education The 2024 Global Education Meeting (GEM), held in Fortaleza, Brazil, marked a significant milestone in the global pursuit of education equity and financing, with the adoption of the powerful Fortaleza Declaration by over 650 participants including over 50 Ministers from across the globe. Reunión mundial sobre la educación: Declaración de Fortaleza; Aprovechar el poder transformador de la educación para forjar futuros pacíficos, equitativos y sostenibles Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Brazil. Ministry of Education Este documento recoge la declaración de los ministros, los jefes y los miembros de las delegaciones nacionales, los representantes de los organismos de las Naciones Unidas, los asociados humanitarios y para el desarrollo, las organizaciones internacionales y regionales, las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, la profesión docente, los jóvenes y los estudiantes, el sector privado y las fundaciones, a partir de su participación en la Reunión Global sobre Educación (GEM) 2024, llevada a cabo los días 31 de octubre y 1° de noviembre. Esta reunión, organizada por la UNESCO y con sede en Brasil, tuvo el propósito de trazar la ruta para que la educación sea la prioridad de las naciones, las regiones y el mundo como un elemento clave para alcanzar todos los ODS, adoptando un enfoque integrado y de aprendizaje permanente, centrado en el fortalecimiento y la transformación de la educación. 
Youth Report 2024: Technology in Education; A Tool on Our Terms! Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team | Restless Development The 2024 Youth Report on technology in education is the result of an extensive consultation process in partnership with Restless Development involving +1500 youth and students across 8 regions. The consultations invited participants to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities for the use of technology in education in their regions through the lenses of the recommendations in the global 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report on technology in education: Technology on our terms. The discussions centred on the need for the use of technology in education to be appropriate for national and local contexts and to be equitable and leave no one behind. The report calls for decisions about technology in education to keep learners at the centre when deciding whether the use of technology in education would be appropriate, equitable, evidence-based, and sustainable. Through this report, young people have described what technology on their terms would look like. It concludes with a call to action calling which highlights concrete recommendations that governments can follow to ensure that technology in education is on youth terms. 
Assessment for Advocacy to Transform Communities, Programmes and Policies in the Global South Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team | PAL Network This paper was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2024 Spotlight Report on basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa. It has not been edited by the team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to the Global Education Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can be cited with the following reference: “Paper commissioned for the 2024 Spotlight Report on basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa”. 
Global Education Monitoring Report 2024, Pacific: Technology in Education; A Tool on Whose Terms? Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team | Commonwealth of Learning Information transmission and connectivity is crucial in the Pacific, a region characterized by high geographic dispersion. While the application of ICT in education has significant potentials, it is hindered by the region's limited and costly infrastructure. This edition accompanies the 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report, which acknowledges technology as a useful tool but invites the education community to question on whose terms it is deployed. The report considered four key policy areas of the Pacific Regional Education Framework (PacREF) (2018–2030): In terms of quality and relevance, mobile technology has offered an affordable and flexible approach to learning, and social media have improved communication between institutions, parents and learners. Moodle is the most widely used digital platform in the region. Textbooks are being digitalised and digital resources made available. Yet content is not always developed or adapted to local languages and cultural contexts. Open and distance learning has historically expanded learning pathways in the Pacific, specially in higher education and as a response to natural hazards. The University of South Pacific is a leading example of open and distance learning connecting campus across 12 countries. With the aim to enhance student outcomes and well-being, efforts have been made to incorporate digital skills into curricula and initiatives have increased outside formal education. Yet regulations do not adequately address threats from the use of technology to privacy, safety and well-being. With a focus on the teaching profession, countries leverage technology to provide training opportunities and transform the teaching profession. However, ICT training varies greatly across the region and limited digital infrastructure hinders technology integration into classrooms and teacher training. Three conditions need to be met for technology's potential to be fulfilled: equitable access to technology, appropriate governance and regulation, and sufficient teacher capacity. Supporting this publication is seven background thematic studies that provide a comprehensive overview of education technology issues; Commonwealth of Learning’s short case studies on some of its projects; a survey administered to key informed respondents from the region; and a series of country profiles on PEER, a policy dialogue resource describing policies and regulations related to technology in the region’s education systems. 
可持续发展教育: 路线图 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: 联合国教科文组织 (UNESCO) 本文是联合国教科文组织实施可持续发展教育所制定的路线图，旨在阐明地球面临的紧迫挑战，探讨教科文组 织通过教育应对这些挑战的下一步工作，并详细梳理新的侧重点和行动。 
Gender, Media and ICTs: New Approaches for Research, Education & Training Year of publication: 2019 Author: Lisa French | Aimée Vega Montiel | Claudia Padovani Corporate author: UNESCO Higher education has to grapple with intense change in communications technologies, genres and business models - and with stubborn continuities in gender inequalities. This publication helps to navigate and transform the conundrum. It provides seven structured and practical modules, and a treasure trove of links to further resources. The book’s contents can empower its readers to advance gender equality in and through communications. 
How Can Education Really Contribute to Solving the Climate Crisis? Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO “Debating the Futures of Education” is a video series produced by UNESCO, within the framework of an initiative that seeks to reimagine the futures of education. The purpose of this video is to think about how education can really contribute to solving the climate crisis.