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Unlocking the Transformative Potential of Education: The Alliance Between Lifelong Learning and SDG Target 4.7 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Chris Millora Corporate author: Bridge 47 This paper has found that Lifelong learning as a spectrum of formal, informal and non-formal learning, offers a framework to embrace different forms of learning people gain in various spaces across their lifespan. While several lifelong learning policies emphasise economic benefits, evidence shows that lifelong learning also facilitates active citizenship, tolerance to diversity, empathy, learning to live together, leadership, intergenerational learning, and awareness of social injustices. This paper demonstrated the impact of ALE provisions that bring to centre stage the needs of adults – particularly women – in resource-poor contexts. These programmes recognise the ‘funds of knowledge’ and ‘banks of skills’ already existing in these communities – challenging the deficit discourse that is dominant particularly in development circles even today.Based on these findings, this paper puts forward seven interrelated policy recommendations: (1) acknowledgement, within SDG 4.7 policies, that learning occurs in all life stages, forms and spaces; (2) prioritisation of lifelong learning and transformative approaches to education into local, national, regional and global level policies, including provisions of funding; (3) a focus on the transformative competencies and outcomes of lifelong learning; (4) positioning lifelong learning as a cross- cutting (rather than separate) approach to achieving the SDGs; (5) increased attention to recognising, validating and accrediting (RVA) non-formal and informal learning; (6) involving marginalised groups as stakeholders that can shape policy and not only recipients; (7) increased government support and financing to adult educators and literacy facilitators. 
Transformative Competencies: How to Define and Implement Competencies for SDG Target 4.7 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Johanna Helin Corporate author: Bridge 47 This paper was commissioned to support advocacy for SDG Target 4.7 in European and global policies by exploring the concept of ‘Competencies for SDG Target 4.7’. This advocacy paper draws from a desk review of existing global and regional competency frameworks at national, regional and global levels. The aim is to get a clearer understanding of these transformative competencies and how they help the implementation and assessment of Target 4.7.This paper is divided in three sections. The first section provides background to the different world views that frame the discussion on competencies, before turning to presenting some of the competency frameworks for Target 4.7. The second section gives some examples of how these competencies are being introduced into national education policies, professional skills training and lifelong learning. The paper finishes with conclusions and policy recommendations. 
Indicators: The Need and Challenges of Tracking Implementation of Target 4.7 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Johanna Helin Corporate author: Bridge 47 This paper investigates the existing and proposed indicators and monitoring frame- works for 4.7. Examining efforts at national, regional, and global levels will identify the main challenges in measurement initiatives. The paper will start by looking at the context of SDGs and the special character of Target 4.7. Thereafter, it will discuss the process and limitations of defining the indicators at the global level. It will also review regional developments, tools, and ideas for national and local level assessment frameworks in Asia-Pacific and Europe. The paper ends with conclusions and policy recommendations. 
Resources: For SDG Target 4.7 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Sandra Oliveira Corporate author: Bridge 47 This paper is part of a series of publications commissioned to support advocacy for more space for SDG Target 4.7 of Agenda 2030 in European and global policies. In November 2019, Bridge 47 organised an event called Envision 4.7, which brought together civil society organisations, national governments, MEPs, European and global organisations, and together wrote a Roadmap for SDG Target 4.7 for Europe.Focusing on the key themes of this Envision 4.7 Roadmap and drawing on the Envision 4.7. policy papers as key references, this paper focuses on providing a global overview and identification of the types of resources re- quired to achieve this target.\ 
Strengthening the Gender Journalism Curriculum in the Republic of Kazakhstan Year of publication: 2018 Author: Sergey Karpov | Nazgul Shyngysova This program focuses on how strategic gender analysis might be incorporated into journalistic production. It describes and analyzes how inequalities between men and women occur culturally and are reproduced in the media, enabling students to critically examine and reconsider their own stereotypes. 
The National Strategy for the Rights of People with Disabilities in the Kingdom of Bahrain (2012-2016) Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: Bahrain. Ministry of Social Dvelopment The document is a national strategy for the State of Bahrain with regard to the rights of persons with disabilities. This document is based on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by the Kingdom of Bahrain. This strategy comes in seven axes: legislation, health, rehabilitation, inclusive education, economic empowerment, social empowerment, and the media. 
From Sustainable Development According to Brundtland to Sustainability as Biomimicry Year of publication: 2014 Author: Roberto Bermejo Gómez de Segura Corporate author: Hegoa, Institute for International Cooperation and Development Studies This text aims to analyze the concept of sustainability, starting from the concept of sustainable development of the Brundtland Report, and using this as a measuring stick of what government institutions raise on the subject directly or through the agreements of the world conferences. In addition, the academic debate on the concept of sustainability is reviewed, to go on to present its interpretation as an imitation of nature and the epistemological transformations that it causes in neoclassical economics. Finally, the factors that are proposed to generate the transformation are briefly evaluated. 
General Policy Recommendation No. 15 of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: On Combating Hate Speech Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Council of Europe | European Committee against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) The file is the recommendations of the European Committee against Racism and Intolerance on combating hate speech for countries. The file contains statistics and criteria established by the Commission. There are 10 recommendations made by the committee. 
[Summary] Reimagining Our Futures Together: A New Social Contract for Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: International Commission on the Futures of Education | UNESCO Our humanity and planet Earth are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures. Education, long acknowledged as a powerful force for positive change, has new, urgent and important work to do. Informed by a global consultation process engaging about one million people, this report of the International Commission on the Futures of Education invites governments, institutions, organizations, and citizens around the world to forge a new social contract for education that will help us build peaceful, just, and sustainable futures together and for all.The report features in-depth looks at digital technologies, climate change, democratic slippage and societal polarization and the uncertain future of work. It aims not only to open the conversation about education to everyone and provoke thought, but to spur each of us on to action. It argues, above all, that it is through millions of individual and collective acts of courage, leadership, resistance, creativity and care that we will change course and transform education to build just, equitable and sustainable futures. 
ПЕРЕОСМЫСЛИМ НАШЕ БУДУЩЕЕ Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: International Commission on the Futures of Education | UNESCO Наше человечество, наша планета находятся в опасности, пандемия лишь подтвердила нашу хрупкость и взаимозависимость, чтобы изменить ход вещей и переосмыслить наше будущее, необходимы неотложные совместные действия; в этом докладе Международной комиссии по перспективам образования подтверждается способность образования к осуществлению коренных изменений. Перед нами стоит двойная задача – выполнить невыполненное обещание обеспечить право на качественное образование для каждого ребёнка, молодого человека и взрослого и полностью реализовать преобразующий потенциал образования, способного проложить путь к устойчивому коллективному будущему. Для этого нам нужен новый общественный договор в области образования, который сможет устранять проявления несправедливости, преобразуя будущее.Этот новый общественный договор должен основываться на принципах прав человека, недопущения дискриминации, социальной справедливости, уважения жизни, человеческого достоинства и культурного разнообразия. Он должен включать в себя этику заботы о людях, взаимности и солидарности. Он должен укреплять позиции образования как общественного дела и общего блага.Этот доклад, который готовился два года на основе глобального процесса консультаций с участием миллиона человек, предлагает правительствам, учреждениям, организациям и гражданам всего мира разработать новый общественный договор в области образования, который поможет нам построить мирное, справедливое и устойчивое будущее, отвечающее всеобщим интересам.Представленные здесь концепции, принципы и предложения являются лишь отправной точкой. Их воплощение в практику в конкретных условиях – это коллективная работа. Уже есть много положительных моментов, и в настоящем докладе предпринята попытка их отразить и развить. Это не инструкция и не план, а начало жизненно важного разговора.