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Water Security and the Sustainable Development Goals (Global Water Security Issues Series, 1) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO | International Centre for Water Security and Sustainable Management (i-WSSM) The ‘Global Water Security Issues (GWSI) series’ is the product of synergy within the UNESCO system, in particular the International Water Security and Sustainable Management (i-WSSM).The first edition of the GWSI series also seeks to demonstrate that water has a central role in all aspects of economic development and social welfare, and that concerted action via a collective approach of the water-using sectors is needed to ensure water’s many benefits are maximized and shared equitably and that water-related development goals are achieved.While this publication is factual, containing the most current information available concerning the state of knowledge on water security in the perspective of sustainable development and covering the most recent developments that affect it, this publication also provides decision-makers with concrete examples of approaches and potential responses for addressing water security-related challenges from the perspectives of both the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and a broader political and sectoral scope, which covers development, financing, capacity-building, institutional reform and technology.It is hoped that this publication will be a reference source on water security as it covers all aspects of human development and the cases and solutions introduced in the GWSI series can be invaluable for decision-makers, their advisors and anyone interested in – and concerned about – water security, and that this first edition will reach an ever-widening audience that includes actors outside the ‘water box’ who make or influence broad socio-economic policies that can affect water security. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 49: GCED for Social Justice and Development; A Case from Uganda Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: APCEIU Creating a peaceful, trusting and supportive learning environment is a strong driver for a nation’s sustainable development. Any society whose citizens have no cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioral values like respect for self and humanity, is doomed for chaos. The concepts of Education for International Understanding(EIU) and Global Citizenship Education(GCED) in this programme emerge from the need for harmonious living in the society. Sustainable human and economic development is built upon the successful dissemination and implementation of EIU/GCED practices. To understand this better, let’s use the analogy of a bird that gains its momentum to fly from its feet, lungs and wings.The contributor uses this analogy to illustrate that EIU/GCED is the foundation that exerts momentum for social development.The contributor saw it necessary that for any sustainable development to flourish in Ugandan society, pragmatic values have to be perfectly blended with public awareness for they serve as the foundation of all economic, social, cultural and political efforts. The national value system should be based on a strong foundation on which all national efforts are rooted. The social aspirations of the citizens should be the ones that propel development needs and national priorities.To effect sustainable development, we need to see schools as strategic intervention points. Recent times have, however, witnessed that the level of discipline and value inculcation gradually declined to near extinction. The distortion of the social setting that inculcated the ethical values in the young generation has called for a need to remedy the gap. The EIU/GCED is strategically tailored to inculcate Table of Contents moral principles and values in the children through the direct contact and support of the teachers of Early Childhood Development (ECD), both primary and postprimary levels.The Nakaseke Core Primary Teachers’ College (PTC) is mandated to mainstream and promote the social uprightness of the community being a primary stakeholder in the integration of EIU/GCED in the Ugandan Primary Schools (PS) and Primary Teachers Education (PTE) Curriculum. Consequently, the training programmes were designed to enhance the capacity of PTC’s administrators, tutors and support staff, pre-service student teachers, district education officers and primary school teachers to inculcate the EIU/GCED moral values and principles among the learners. Students are then expected to apply EIU/GCED principles to their families and communities, and uphold the values of integrity, honesty, justice, responsibility, respect for humanity, hard work, unity and creativity. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 48: Youth-Led Action Research of Transformation; A Case from India Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: APCEIU This action research project is about the education for livelihood and life skills of marginalized young girls. This project was based from my experience in the Youth-Led Action Research Project organized by ASPBAE and UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL), which gradually led to the conception of the present action research project for the empowerment of the marginalized rural girls suppressed by patriarchal social systems. The Shodhinis are the subjects and objects of this action research. A hundred girls from ten villages conducted action research on the topics of gender, education, livelihood and life skills to young marginalized young girls aged between 14 to 25 years old in their respective communities. The Shodhinis discovered the joys of learning as they took positive steps in discovering and empowering themselves. The research enabled them to conduct various research methods like census and in-depth surveys of their fellow girls in their villages. As part of the research process, the girls also drew up a community map to understand their village. The relevance of this project to GCED values cannot be overemphasized especially in developing the cognitive, emotional and the behavioral dimensions of the girls themselves.This project not only focuses on analyzing the findings derived from the gathered data but also on generating action based on the data. It helped improve the way Shodhinis looked at themselves, their families, and their communities, inspiring them to become agents of change in their own lives as well as those of other girls in their villages. By amplifying their voices and opinions in the decision making processes at the family and community levels – for instance, by lobbying for the construction of libraries – the Shodhinis were able to demonstrate their leadership skills in shaping the development of their villages, thereby enhancing their dignity and self-worth. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 47: Building Zones of Peace: Peace Education Programme; A Case from Costa Rica Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: APCEIU Building Zones of Peace (BZP) is a non-formal peace and global citizen education programme created to promote peace and prevent violence in vulnerable urban communities in Costa Rica. The programme aims to encourage participants to develop a critical view of their contexts and explore different ways of taking action to transform the world we live in, and by recognizing how individual and collective efforts have a positive and direct impact in our personal, family and community spheres as well as nationally and globally.In 2017, BZP was conducted to a group of secondary education students ages 13 to 17. This year (2018), participants are young women, ages 18 to 22, all of the mothers who live in extreme poverty. These women have been selected by a governmental office whose aim is to reduce poverty by empowering them. Several resources and networks of support have been created in different areas such as health, employment, childcare and education to achieve this goal. In this sense, our programme was chosen to contribute significantly in this process. 
Reinventing Cities (The UNESCO Courier no. 2, April-June 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Author: Alain Mabanckou | Jorge Majfud | Thomas B. Reverdy Corporate author: UNESCO Cities have always been centres of power, attractiveness and prosperity. But the renetic urbanization of recent decades is jeopardizing their historical function as elting pots that integrate and absorb newcomers. As they become more populated, they become dehumanized. Violence, inequality, discrimination – the larger the cities, the more these ills overwhelm them.Nevertheless, even as they are dehumanized, cities are reinventing themselves. From street smarts as a survival strategy in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) to major national projects for the rehabilitation of single-industry cities in Russia; from the personal initiative of a gallery owner who revitalized the small town of Erriadh (Tunisia) to the mobilization of the masses against the authoritarian ppropriation of public spaces in Warsaw (Poland); and from solidarity movements with migrants in London (United Kingdom) to synergies that revive the heart of Havana (Cuba) – creative forces are emerging and organizing themselves to give urban life new meanings and new perspectives. We may believe these are “tiny resistances” – to use the expression of the French writer Thomas B. Reverdy – but they make all the difference.Two other writers share their views with our readers in this issue. Our Guest, the French-Congolese author Alain Mabanckou, talks about “mobile Africas” and the courage to write, while highlighting contradictory moments in colonial history. The Uruguayan-American writer Jorge Majfud condemns the racist attitude towards migrants in the Ideas section, which also provides an analysis of migration policies in the United States.In the Current Affairs section – on the occasion of World Africa Day, 25 May – we publish an interview with Tshilidzi Marwala (South Africa), on the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) on the continent. To mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May, we visit Gran Pajatén, Peru, with Roldán Rojas Paredes – the man who initiated its inscription on UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves.We also go to Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), which launches its World Book Capital programme in April 2019. Finally, with Zoom, we travel to India, Mexico, Myanmar and Uganda, to visit places without electricity. An illuminating trip around the world! 
The Intersections Between Education, Migration and Displacement are not gender-neutral (Global Education The Intersections between Education, Migration and Displacement Monitoring Report, 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report emphasized the need to include migrants and refugees in national education systems, and also called for more planning to respond to the needs of these populations. As this short review has outlined, many of these needs have gender dimensions. These range from the vulnerability of rural‑to‑urban migrant girls who end up as domestic workers deprived of education opportunities to the vulnerability of refugee boys, often unaccompanied, who have limited opportunities to develop their skills. They encompass the deskilling of international migrant women in the ‘global care chain’ as well as the increasing chore burden that left‑behind girls face when a parent migrates.Still, research on the experiences of girls and women or boys and men in migration and displacement contexts – and how these can be affected by education – remains limited. More analysis on the intersection of gender, education, migration and displacement is needed on a wide variety of issues, including the gender-specific dimensions of remittance use, gender-responsive teaching practices and the empowerment impact of non-formal education opportunities. To fulfil their potential for instilling resilience, education systems need to recognize these needs and respond to them. 
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019: Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance. Prepared by more than 60 UN agencies, programmes and offices and other relevant international organizations, the report puts forward a set of policy recommendations for achieving tangible progress on financing for sustainable development in 2019 and beyond.The report warns that creating favorable conditions is becoming more challenging. Rapid changes in technology, geopolitics, and climate are remaking our economies and societies, and existing national and multilateral institutions -- which had helped lift billions out of poverty -- are now struggling to adapt. Confidence in the multilateral system has been undermined, in part because it has failed to deliver returns equitably, with most people in the world living in countries with increasing inequality. 
The Global Goals Food Project: Every Plate Tells a Story Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: World’s Largest Lesson This lesson plan, “Every Plate Tells a Story,” provides a guided activity for teachers and students to work together in efforts to bring the Global Goals to classrooms and learning.The lesson begins by broadly introducing the term “goal” and invites students to make personal connections to people, places, and environments by considering goals in their lives. Learners build knowledge as they integrate understanding of the Global Goals and the processes in which they were designed.During the lesson, students will engage in a process of inquiry through dialogue, collaboration, and research and will establish concrete realizations of the sustainability of the food they eat. Multiple sources of evidence/formative assessments can be used throughout the lesson to document learning, guide conversation, and inform future instruction. 
Anytime, Anywhere Learning for Improved Education Results in Russia: Case Study by the UNESCO-Fazheng Project on Best Practices in Mobile Learning Year of publication: 2019 Author: Alexander Uvarov | Julia Varlamova Corporate author: UNESCO The Harmony School in Izhevsk is a regular municipal school located in one of the city districts of the capital city of the Udmurt Republic in Russia. Students come to Harmony school from different cultural and social environments, with various physical and mental abilities, and the school is eager to create the best conditions for learning and developing for each of them. In 2012, Harmony School took a part in the School of Digital Age project supported by the federal Skolkovo project and the Russian branch of Microsoft. The mobile technologies in the school are implemented as a tool for anytime and anywhere learning to differentiate and individualize learning to improve education results.According to the school vision, mobile learning technologies should provide all students and teachers anytime and anywhere access to a variety of teaching and learning materials and digital instruments and students who are unable to attend classes should be able to continue their systematic studies. The mobile learning model should enable every student to experience independent learning activities in the digital educational environment and improve their educational results with new methods and organizational forms of teaching and learning. To implement this vision, the new school-wide teaching and learning practices including online/blended learning, mobile learning in the classroom and outside-classroom learning have been developed and used actively. The new in-school teachers’ professional development model has become a crucially important element for the project’s success. 
Mobile Learning as a Catalyst to Global Citizenship Education in China: Case Study by the UNESCO-Fazheng Project on Best Practices in Mobile Learning Year of publication: 2019 Author: Yao Yu | Shutong Wang | Lucy Emerson Haagen Corporate author: UNESCO The Beijing Royal School was one of the pioneer schools in China in incorporating mobile learning into pedagogical transformation. Its mobile learning programme started in 2010. Stemming from the school’s orientation towards global citizenship education, the Beijing Royal School recognizes mobile learning as both driver and enabler for supporting the development of students’ cognitive, socio-emotionaland behavioural dimensions, organized around knowledge acquisition, understanding and respect for difference and diversity, and responsible engagement with global issues. It takes advantage of a variety of mobile apps to support students’ multilingual education, and uses open educational resources (OER) to support multicultural education, taking advantage of the up-to-date worldwide data and information available on the web. It also engages with students from other countries in projects and courses that help the students to widen their understanding of diverse cultures and social contexts. Overall, this case study illustrates how to use mobile technologies to support the implementation of a well-defined and clearly structured educational vision by embedding the use of mobile technologies in students’ daily learning lives.