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Peace Education: Making the Case Year of publication: 2019 Author: Darijn Dilia Zwart Corporate author: Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) This publicaiton shows how peace education has responded to difficult political contexts over the decades and demonstrates that peace education is relevant to conflict prevention and peacebuilding today. The report makes the case for a multi-layered approach to peace education which requires a cohesive, coordinated strategy for peace education as a peacebuilding and conflict prevention tool across relevant EU internal and external policies and programmes. 
Policy Recommendations on Global Citizenship Education (GCE): Boosting Global Citizenship Education Using Digital Storytelling Year of publication: 2018 Author: Alessandra Accogli | Barbara Quarta Corporate author: Brights Project | European Union (EU) | European Commission This document summarizes the experience gained from implementing the BRIGHTS methodology and curriculum for GCE and provides policy recommendations for their adoption in formal and non-formal educational contexts. 
Time to Reach for the Moon: The EU Needs to Step up Action and Lead the Transformation to Sustainability; Civil Society SDG Monitoring Report Year of publication: 2020 Author: Sylvia Beales | George Gelber Corporate author: SDG Watch Europe | Make Europe Sustainable for All This report explains why the EU’s SDG reporting creates an illusion of sustainability and makes concrete proposals for meaningful monitoring to become a stronger foundation for transformative policies. The report flags up serious gaps, bringing them to life with 17 individual stories. It also offers 17 solutions, real-life examples of progressive policies, innovative initiatives and truly sustainable business models. 
Gender-responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education: A Toolkit for Teachers and School Leaders Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: VVOB | Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) The Gender-Reponsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education Toolkit targets early childhood education teachers and all other practitioners who deal with younger children. It is a practical guide that can be adapted to any context and the related needs as well as a source of ideas and resources that individual teachers and school leaders can put to immediate use in their classrooms and schools. The toolkit is also a useful resource for researchers, school-parent committees and governing bodies, civil society organisations, community leaders and education policy makers. 
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. 
Risks in the Fight for Justice and Human Rights in Central Asia: Protecting Civil Society in the Region in 2017 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) This 2017 report provides an overview of the main trends regarding civil society in five countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The report is mainly based on the results of monitoring conducted by Central Asian organizations in their countries and on regular reports prepared jointly with IPHR as part of the CIVICUS Monitor initiative aimed at monitoring the state of civil society worldwide. 
Auditing Educational Equity in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Guide for Education Unions Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Education International (EI) This Guide is aimed at education unions as they work at local, regional, provincial/state, and/or national level to ensure the equity gaps that have been widened and deepened by the Covid-19 pandemic receive urgent attention and remedy. The purpose of this Guide is to support education unions as they advocate for governments to urgently address the key equity issues that have arisen within education as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The outcomes of an equity audit can enable education institutions and systems to adapt more effectively in a Covid-19 ‘new normal’ and help to undo the structures of inequality that prevent countries from realising the universal right to education. The Guide is not intended to be prescriptive, but rather to provide EI member organisations across regions with an introduction to equity auditing processes within education, and an overview of key questions arising from the ongoing pandemic that need to be addressed through the auditing process. 
DEAR, Action Through Campaigning and Advocacy Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) Programme | European Commission This video gives an overview of the kind of work that DEAR-funded projects do in campaigning and advocacy. It also emphasizes the principles of Global Citizenship Education and the active involvement of citizens. 
Global Citizenship Education: Solidar Foundation Policy Paper Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Solidar Foundation | Erasmus+ The purpose of this paper is to provide recommendations supported by our members, based on their work in formal, non-formal and informal education, to expand GCE at national and European level. Considering how GCE is linked many times with formal education, the recommendations reveal the work of our members outside of this, building upon the need for a multi-stakeholder approach that spans across the entire learning process. This policy paper guides SOLIDAR Foundation’s work in influencing developments related to the EU’s Updated Skills Agenda, European Education Area, Action Plan for the Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, and the European Green Deal, given how all provide an opportunity for GCE to be embraced as a necessity rather than an added-value.