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Asia-Pacific Regional Synthesis: Climate Change, Displacement and the Right to Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) | UNESCO Bangkok In 2020, 30.7 million people were displaced by natural disasters – disasters which the scientific community acknowledges are more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. In Asia and the Pacific alone, 21.3 million people were displaced, making it the region the most impacted by national disasters and climate change in the world. Therefore, country case studies were carried out in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Tuvalu, and Viet Nam to examine not only specific vulnerabilities to climate change and related mobility, but also the impacts of climate change on the right to education in Asia and the Pacific. These case studies show that climate change directly threatens education – through the destruction of schools and property – but also indirectly puts education in peril by forcing people to cross borders, ensuring neither legal residency nor the right to education. This regional synthesis report aims to guide policy-makers through providing operational policy recommendations on how to ensure education is protected in Asia and the Pacific in the face of climate change and displacement from a human rights-based approach. The report is one of four being developed and will contribute to the global initiative on climate change and displacement and the right to education – launched by UNESCO in 2020 – by informing the development of a Global Report with global policyrecommendations.How climate change impacts the right to education in Asia and the Pacific21.3million displacementstook place in Asia and the Pacific 
Learner-Centred Teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Perspectives and Reviews of Six Asia-Pacific Countries Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Learner-centred Teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Perspectives and Reviews of Six Asia-Pacific Countries A learner-centred approach to teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is based on learner engagement, autonomy and outcome-based activities to support professional development. This report analyses the status of learner-centred TVET teaching in six selected countries across Asia and the Pacific, including China, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uzbekistan. The countries were selected because of their geographic diversity, access to national experts, and potential around learner-centred TVET.The first part of the study is a review of the theoretical background on the learner-centred approach and TVET teaching with an international scope. A total of 25 indicators were used to assess three components of TVET teaching in the region. The analysis includes 17 examples corresponding to the selected indicators. The findings showcase lessons learned and recommendations for countries to self-assess their TVET teaching strategies. These examples will help to inform future projects and capacity building in each sub-region of Asia-Pacific.As a result, seven proposals are identified and discussed to promote the development of learner-centred TVET teaching in the region. These proposals include: 1) supporting national reform of the pedagogy based on the results of pilot projects; 2) increasing two-way communication between students and teachers; 3) producing learning materials adapted to learner-centred methods; 4) using technology in the learning process; 5) implementing competency-based learning to support the learner-centred pedagogy; 6) integrating transversal and core skills; and 7) developing teachers’ capacities by employing a learner-centred approach. These proposals (on reform, teaching method, use of materials, etc.) also address gender dimensions throughout the planning, implementation and review process. Conclusions from the study provide lessons learned as well as proposals for further research and implementation of learner-centred TVET teaching in Asia-Pacific. 
Leave No One Behind: Equity and Inclusion in Education at UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Equity and inclusion in education ensures a process intended to respond to students’ diversity by increasing their participation and reducing exclusion within and from education. 
“Can Education Transform Our World?: Global Citizenship Education and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” Year of publication: 2020 Author: Joel Westheimer Corporate author: Brill This book chapter is taken from the book Grading Goal Four: Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education, which aims to support the immplementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 by exploreing various tensions, threats, and opportunities. This chapter specifically focuses on the role of eucation in fostering global citizenship and how educational systems and policies can be improved to facilitate creating a sustainable society and contribute to the 2030 SDG Agenda. 
Digital Museum: Citizenship and Culture 2020 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Conversations about digitality and museums were transformed, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, towards actions and topics related to the creation of content with perspectives of building a digital citizenship where activism, free access and the exercise of cultural rights They are confronted with the paradoxes of the privatization of knowledge, job insecurity, 2.0 exploitation systems and the emergence of asymmetrical time horizons. This publication expands on the conferences, dialogues, workshops and case studies presented at the homonymous meeting held in November 2020. 
Communication Strategy: UNESCO Guidance on Communicating on Gender Equality in and through Education Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO About 259 million children and youth are out of school according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, including 127 million girls and 132 million boys. Twothirds of the 750 million non-literate adults around the world are women. This gender disparity remains one of the persistent challenges in adult literacy and education. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges, disrupting the education of over 1.5 billion learners. UNESCO estimates that close to 24 million children and youth, including over 11 million girls and 13 million boys, may drop out of school due to the pandemic’s economic impact. A window of opportunity is now more than ever open to build back equal. This communication strategy is designed to provide strategic guidance on communicating on gender equality in and through education. While prepared for UNESCO Education Sector staff, including those at Headquarters, in Field/Regional/Cluster Offices and in Institutes as well as for implementing partners, a broader audience of gender focal points, partners, Member States and others with an interest in and commitment to gender equality in and through education may also find this strategy particularly useful. 
The 2030 Agenda and the Regional Gender Agenda: Synergies for Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean (Asuntos de Género; no. 143) Year of publication: 2017 Author: Nicole Bidegain Ponte Corporate author: UN. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) This document analyzes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in light of the challenges and priorities for gender equality and the rights and autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Illustrative examples of the interrelationships between goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda are presented, and it warns about the importance of a comprehensive approach to ensure that progress in some of the SDGs is not made through means that may hinder the achievement of the goals and targets related to gender equality and women's rights. 
Making Lifelong Learning a Reality: A Handbook Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This handbook provides education stakeholders with practical guidance on lifelong learning. With an overview of key concepts, policy issues, technical knowledge and practical approaches, it demonstrates how lifelong learning can be strengthened in policy-making and implemented at national, regional, local and institutional levels. The handbook supports those experts and professionals in the field of education who wish to develop their understanding of lifelong learning, and offers tips, information and examples targeted at learners, facilitators, institutional leaders, policy-makers and legislators. More broadly, it illustrates how lifelong learning can address complex political, social, economic and environmental issues affecting people around the world. 
Some Aspects of Sustainable Development of the Kyrgyz Republic (International Journal of Humanities and Natural Sciences; Vol.1-1, No.76) Year of publication: 2023 Author: А.И. Абдиева | Сыдыкова Жылдыз The article reveals the modern position of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of promoting the principles of sustainable development, in particular, it discloses what strategic documents have been adopted and are currently being implemented in this area, the article attempts to draw attention to the state of air pollution and its impact on the health of the population of the republic. 
Sustainable Development in the State of Qatar: Achievements and Challenges Year of publication: 2008 Author: Nuzad Alhiti | Mohammed Almahindi Corporate author: Standing Committee for Housing This book deals with the theoretical frameworks of sustainable development and its applications in the State of Qatar. It has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with a statement of the concept of sustainable development, its dimensions and the development it has witnessed, as well as clarification of the indicators of sustainable social, economic, environmental and institutional development. The second chapter reviews the institutional and legislative developments for sustainable development in the State of Qatar, and the most important initiatives undertaken by the state to achieve sustainable development, in addition to a statement of the most important strategies and policies developed by the state in the social, economic, environmental and institutional fields of sustainable development. As for the third chapter, it deals with the analysis of the most important indicators of sustainable social, economic, environmental and institutional development, and its strengths and weaknesses, while the fourth and final chapter reviews the most important challenges facing sustainable development in the State of Qatar.