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CONFINTEA VII Seventh International Conference on Adult Education: Final Report; Adult learning and Education for Sustainable Development; A Transformative Agenda Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) The International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) is a UNESCO intergovernmental conference for policy dialogue on adult learning and education (ALE) and related research and advocacy, which has taken place every 12 to 13 years since 1949. This is a final report of the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) held in Marrakech, Kingdom of Morocco, and online, from 15 to 17 June 2022. 
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2022: Groundwater; Making the Invisible Visible Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO The 2022 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report, titled “Groundwater: Making the invisible visible”, describes the challenges and opportunities associated with the development, management and governance of groundwater across the world. The report addresses groundwater-related issues from the perspective of the three main water use sectors (agriculture, human settlements and industry), as well as its interactions with ecosystems and its relation with climate change. It highlights different regional perspectives and presents a number of response options concerning data and information, policy and planning, management and governance, as well as financing.The United Nations World Water Development Report is UN-Water’s flagship report on water and sanitation issues, focusing on a different theme each year. The report is published by UNESCO, on behalf of UN-Water and its production is coordinated by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme. The report gives insight on main trends concerning the state, use and management of freshwater and sanitation, based on work done by the Members and Partners of UN-Water. Launched in conjunction with World Water Day, the report provides decision-makers with knowledge and tools to formulate and implement sustainable water policies. It also offers best practices and in-depth analyses to stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship in the water sector and beyond. 
Youth of Central Asia, Challenges for Peacebuilding: A Comprehensive Research Review Year of publication: 2021 Author: Laura Yerekesheva Corporate author: UNESCO The estimations are that by 2030, the world will be home to 1.3 billion young people. This speaks about the importance of the youth for development in various parts of the globe, particularly in developing countries which constitute 90% of the global youth population. From comprehensive holistic perspective peace, peacebuilding and dialogue embrace all aspects and dimensions of life – inter-generational, social, economic, political, ethnic, religious, civic, ideological, cultural, and natural. The youth related issues are directly linked with the SDGs agenda. Central Asian states are also on the list of developing countries, with an increasing demographic share of the youth in the general population, meaning that the countries of the region are “young.” As of 2020, the total population of the four countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) was 68.46 million, of which youth comprised 16.55 million or 24,1%. What Challenges for Peacebuilding the Youth of Central Asia Face? This highlights the urgency required for elaborating and implementing special policies on youth development. For Central Asia, the peace and peacebuilding agenda is the development agenda, and vice versa, as neither is possible without the other, and these in turn are intrinsically linked with youth-related issues. This report provides a detailed overview of the existing challenges to the youth of the 4 countries of the region – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan, Uzbekistan – structured around three main themes of peacebuilding: (1) an education and learning environment; (2) economic and social participation; and (3) civic engagement. Governments, international organizations, professionals and policymakers in the youth, peacebuilding and development sectors, academia and NGOs are invited to join forces to accelerate the achievement of youth development for a more just, sustainable and peaceful future. 
UNESCO’s Efforts to Achieve Gender Equality in and Through Education: 2020 Highlights Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO This report presents highlights of UNESCO’s work in 2020 to advance gender equality in and through education.UNESCO's work in this area is guided by the UNESCO strategy for gender equality in and through education 2019–2025, and supported by Her Education, Our Future, which was launched in parallel with the strategy, to leverage political and financial commitments, cooperation and joint action for girls’ and women’s education. 
Citizenship Education for Democratic and Sustainable Communities Year of publication: 2021 Author: Dimitris Deligiannis | Kleoniki Tsiougou | Vicky Goutha | Antonis Moutselos | Ted Fleming Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) | City of Larissa (Greece) | City of Yeonsu-Gu (Republic of Korea) This publication aims to make readers aware of the importance of citizenship education (CE) in local communities within the framework of lifelong learning. It supports cities and citizens in advancing their work on this critical aspect of formal and non-formal education, and in striving for progress in the provision of CE for youth and adult learners. It is mainly based on information from the 2020 survey of cluster members, as well as on case studies and inputs from the conference, ‘Strengthening citizenship education at local level’, which was held virtually on 12 and 13 November 2020. 
Central Asia and Mongolia. OSCE Sub-regional Expert Meeting on Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) In 2020, the OSCE Gender Issues Programme conducted a series of sub-regional expert meetings in order to take stock of progress towards fulfilment of OSCE commitments on preventing and combating violence against women and girls.The report summarizes the outcomes of the meeting aimed at exchanging information and identifying areas of progress as well as persistent challenges. 
A "good" Citizen: Understanding Citizenship in Kyrgyzstan Year of publication: 2021 Author: Kemel Toktomushev This paper is an attempt to reflect on what a citizen of a modern democratic society really is, and what knowledge and competencies he/she should possess in order to meet the challenges of today. 
Effective Employment Policy: Realizing Women's Work Opportunities Year of publication: 2013 Author: Inna Maltseva | Alexandr Navotniy | Yana Chicherina | Gulnora Marufova | Jamoliddin Ismailov | Sherzod Kudbiev | Khaydar Tashmuradov Corporate author: UNDP Uzbekistan The analytical report aims to analyze the current situation of women and men in the field of employment, to identify the key causes of gender differences in the labor market of the country and to develop proposals for improving the effectiveness of employment policies to promote the employment opportunities of women. 
Tajikistan 2016-2021 3rd Cycle Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights Prepared by Civil Society Organizations of the Republic of Tajikistan Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law (BHR) The review was prepared by civil society organizations of the Republic of Tajikistan and covers the period 2016-2021. In preparing the review were used: open statistical data, national and international reports, media materials, international standards, national legislation and other open sources. 
Media Education in the Primary Stage Textbook of Palestinian Curricula: Civic and National Education Year of publication: 2009 Author: Laila Albitar | Alya Alasali Corporate author: An-Najah National University The study achieved its purposes in answering three questions aims at identifying the source of Media with in Civic Education and National Education and also identifying the role of Media Education presented in personalities and equipments with the media skills. This was achieved through content analysis for Media sources and its function through finding frequencies and percentages.The results showed that the focus was on readable media sources in Civic Education books for seventh, eights, and ninth grades and visual sources in National Education books for fifth, sixth, and seventh primary grades. The results indicated that the Civic Education and National Education books dealt with Media Education in a non scientific way.