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Toolkit for Urban Inclusion in Arab Cities: Cities Promoting Inclusion Through Public Participation, Access to Information, Sport, and Citizenship and Human Rights Education Year of publication: 2020 Author: Kareem Ibrahim | Deena Khalil | Marwa Barakat | Salwa Salman Corporate author: UNESCO | European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (Austria) | UNESCO Cairo Arab cities are witnessing an unprecedented expansion. Home to more than half of the region’s population, Arab cities have transformed into heterogeneous spaces that host diverse identities, cultures, and ethnicities. In order for this transformation to lead to prosperity, city officials must adopt a rights-based, human-centred approach, and implement inclusive policies and measures that provide equal opportunities for all.In this context, the Toolkit for Urban Inclusion in Arab Cities provides Arab city leaders and local government officials with practical tools and advice to guide their efforts towards establishing inclusive and sustainable cities. The Toolkit is based on the real experiences and practices of cities members of the Coalition of Arab Cities against Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Intolerance in planning, implementing and evaluating programs and projects that promote urban inclusion and combat exclusion in all its forms.The Toolkit focuses on four topics of high priority to the Arab Coalition member cities: public participation, access to information, sport for youth inclusion, and citizenship and human rights education. 
Enhancing Jordanian Media’s Ability to Combat Extremism and Terrorism Through Media Literacy, Quality of Content, and Media Performance: Training Guide (2020) Year of publication: 2020 Author: Amani Jarrar Corporate author: Jordan Media Institute | Hedayah | European Union (EU) This guide, titled Enhancing Jordanian media’s ability to combat extremism and terrorism through media training, quality of content, and media performance, forms the basis for media training on combatting extremism and terrorism, and it contains five topics: basic journalism guidelines, media and information literacy, fact-checking tools, covering stories of extremism and terrorism, and hate speech expressions and manifestations. 
Do You Speak MIL?: Media and Information Literacy; A Handbook for Jordanian CSOs Year of publication: 2020 Author: Milica Pesic | Lucien Michael Steinberg | Anoud Al-Zou’bi Corporate author: Media Diversity Institute | UNESCO | UN. Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) The aim of this publication is to provide civil society organizations (CSOs) with practical and effective tool that can help CSOs to champion and adopt MIL within their own training programs. Each chapter is divided into three sections: a technical introduction on the topic, recommended questions, and practical examples and scenarios to be used by the trainers. 
Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide Year of publication: 2013 Author: Forest Woody Horton Corporate author: UNESCO This publication aims to bring together Information Literacy contributions in forty-two languages from all of the different geographic regions around the world in order to provide inclusive and multilingual Information Literacy resources for Library and Information Science professionals, teachers, researchers, and students. 
Introductory News Literacy: Adapted from High Five 2012: The Integrated Language Arts and Journalism Curriculum for Middle School Students Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: American Press Institute The American Press Institute’s Introductory News Literacy Units are lightweight general usage lesson plans for introducing middle school students to how to read and understand news media and current events. While the Institute offers more specific and in-depth materials and ideas for promoting news literacy, these new units provide a resource for the time-pressed teacher working with students at an important age. Split into three units of one-to-two weeks each, the curriculum briefly overviews critical elements in news understanding and healthy processes for determining source information and bias. Individual lessons can be adapted and used to fit specific classroom needs. 
State Civic Education: Toolkit Year of publication: 2017 Author: Elizabeth Whitehouse | Paul J. Baumann | Jan Brennan Corporate author: Council of State Governments | Education Commission of the States This Civic Education Toolkit is intended to help stakeholders from all three branches of government, as well as other members of the civic education community in their mission to improve state civic education. There are many unique strategies stakeholders can use to effectively engage students. To effectively use this guide, the icons below denote methods and examples that may be particularly useful to leaders from each branch of government, leaders in the K-12 education community, leaders in the higher education community, and leaders working with non-governmental organizations. 
Strengthening Democracy With a Modern Civics Education Year of publication: 2019 Author: Ashley Jeffrey | Scott Sargrad Corporate author: Center for American Progress This report aims to examine the state of civic education and look deeper at promising approaches to increase civic engagement. It provides an updated state-by-state analysis of civics education requirements and civic engagement measures. 
Seoul Declaration on Media and Information Literacy for Everyone and by Everyone: A Defence Against Disinfodemics Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO This is the Seoul Declaration adopted as outcomes of the 2020 Global Media and Information Literacy Week Feature Conference and Youth Agenda Forum. The Declaration emphasizes the importance of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and has specific actions each stakeholder can take for MIL competency. 
Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2018 Year of publication: 2019 Author: Sara Gharsalli Corporate author: SOLIDAR Foundation This Monitor is a contribution to further examine the relationship between citizenship and lifelong learning experiences and policy outcomes in and outside of the classroom in various European countries. Mapping the different approaches that SOLIDAR Foundation members have taken in promoting EU values in relation to citizenship education and lifelong learning for greater democratic participation of citizens, the outcomes will be disseminated towards European and national policy-makers and offers an array of best practices to collect, use and transfer among networks. The SOLIDAR Education and Lifelong Learning Forum will further work on the topic and develop a long term sustainable advocacy strategy for CSOs towards national and EU-wide authorities to influence the debate and revision of national curricula and education systems. 
Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2019 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Andrei Frank Corporate author: SOLIDAR Foundation | Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) The Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2019 is a research report jointly released by SOLIDAR Foundation and FEPS, on the topic of policy developments in the field of attainment of skills, through lifelong learning, for active participation in society. The skills on which it focuses are digital skills, civic competences and intercultural education competences. The document is composed of an analysis of the policies on the topic, and a presentation of best practices, coming from SOLIDAR Foundation member organisations.