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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.\ 
Gender in Teaching: A Key Dimension of Inclusion Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 Without teachers, Sustainable Development Goal 4 to ensure inclusive and equitable, quality education for all by 2030 will not be achieved.Since teachers act as role models for students, inclusion in education means that the teaching workforce mirror the diversity of the classroom. As countries look to recruit more teachers to meet SDGs, one significant factor important to creating inclusive classrooms is gender.This document has been prepared for the 2020 World Teachers’ Day celebrated by UNESCO and the Teacher Task Force with the theme Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future. 
Pathways Towards Quality Primary Education: Improving Completion and Learning Outcomes Year of publication: 2021 Author: Moizza Binat Sarwar | Susan Nicolai | Diego Benitez Moreno | Olha Homonchuk | Jose Manuel Roche Corporate author: ODI Global This paper explores pathways towards quality primary education by identifying and analysing strategies used in 38 countries that have made faster progress in primary completion rates (PCR) – and, where discernible, learning outcomes – between 2000 and 2017. It further considers which social and economic groups within these countries are being left behind or excluded from the rise in completion rates, why that may be happening and what governments are doing to address those gaps. 
Peace Education in Northeast Asia: A Situational Analysis Year of publication: 2021 Author: Soonwon Kang | Cheng Liu | Ketei Matsui | Batbaatar Monkhooroi | Boyoung Park | Muyu Huang | Oyuntsetseg Dugarsuren Corporate author: APCEIU Being central to education for international understanding and global citizenship, peace education has always been an important theme in UNESCO. For effective delivery of peace education, it is critical to examine and understand the relevance of peace education and its key issues and approaches at a given juncture. With this in mind, in 2020, APCEIU conducted a study on peace education in South Korea to review its current state and suggest some policy recommendations. Following up on this study, APCEIU initiated in 2021 a research project on peace education in Northeast Asia in order to identify how peace education is interpreted and practised in the countries of the region and explore possibilities of cooperation among peace educators, researchers, and practitioners in the region. Building on this research, APCEIU hopes to develop and carry out joint projects for peace education in the region. 
Environmental Education and Its Role in Sustainable Development: A Field Study in Intermediate Education Institutions in the City of Biskra Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: University Mohamed Khider Biskra The file is a doctoral thesis in an Algerian university. The thesis discusses the role of environmental education in achieving sustainable development. The study used the descriptive approach and focused on the city of Biskra. 
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. 
Sustainability: A Strong Concept for Humanity (Tabula Rasa; no. 28) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Plinio Zarta Ávila Corporate author: University College of Cundinamarca The concept of sustainable development is still under construction, having transcended and being enriched, but also fragmenting, moving away from its origin. The indiscriminate use of the term "sustainable" has generated an exhaustion of its initial meaning, losing its meaning and hindering its rigorous analysis. This article promotes a critical discussion of the role of sustainability in the development of society, considering that this concept contemplates important changes in contemporaneity with respect to the values of society.