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The Planet and the 17 Goals Author: Margreet De Heer Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) UNICEF has teamed up with the Comics UnitingNations initiative to use the creative and exciting medium of comics to bring the messages of sustainable development to comics fans globally! Comics have been developed by world renown illustrators, writers and comics developers from around the world.Dutch illustrator Margreet de Heer has lent her talents to the Comics United Nations project to help inform children and youth about the new global goals. 
Quality Education: Why It Matters Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Education is the key that will allow many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved. When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty. Education therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality. It also empowers people everywhere to live more healthy and sustainable lives. Education is also crucial to fostering tolerance between people and contributes to more peaceful societies. 
From Where I Stand: A Gender Equality Project for the Global Goals Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This project enables you to think about and contribute to encouraging women and girls to have equal opportunities to be heard and to have real opportunities to participate in all political, economic and public spheres. 
From Where I Stand: A Gender Equality Project for the Global Goals; Project Briefing Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This project enables you to think about and contribute to encouraging women and girls to have equal opportunities to be heard and to have real opportunities to participate in all political, economic and public spheres. 
Mainstreaming SDG4-Education 2030 in sector-wide policy and planning: technical guidelines for UNESCO field offices Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Mainstreaming SDG4-Education 2030 in sector-wide policy and planning offers technical guidelines for UNESCO field offices to ensure adequate technical support to national authorities. The guidelines take into account the different profiles of countries’ need and capacities, thus avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. The document contains resources and pointers that can be combined and tailored to fit the particular context of each country. In all cases, UNESCO is expected to ensure that all the relevant information about SDG4-Education 2030 is properly disseminated in these guidelines. Field staff will adapt the guidelines provided here to the country they are serving to ensure that UNESCO plays its role as the leading United Nations agency in the field. 
UNESCO moving forward the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, sets forth a bold new framework for development cooperation over the next 15 years. This agenda aspires to ensure prosperity and well-being for all women and men, while protecting our planet and strengthening the foundations for peace. 
Second SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee: meeting report Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The present report provides the SDG-Education 2030 SC meeting programme, a short summary of key outcomes and decisions, as well as a second part including a more detailed summary of deliberations reflecting the themes, issues and understandings emerging from the discussions. 
E2030: education and skills for the 21st century: Regional Meeting Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This report provides a systematization of the discussions at the Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean “E2030: Education and skills for the 21st century” held 24‐25 January 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objectives of the meeting were to: • adopt a Ministerial Declaration on a joint approach to achieve the SDG4-E2030 Agenda in the region, including means of implementation, technical instruments of support and follow-up mechanisms. • agree on a roadmap for the implementation of E2030, including a contextualized followup mechanism that responds to the region’s educational challenges and expectations. 
Educate All Girls and Boys in South Asia; the global out of school children initiative Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNICEF South Asia The South Asia Out-of-School Children Initiative (OOSCI) is part of the global initiative launched by UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in 2010. The goal of the initiative is to make significant and sustained reduction in the number of out-of-school children around the world by 1) developing comprehensive profiles of excluded children using consistent and innovative statistical methods; 2) linking these profiles to the barriers and bottlenecks that lead to exclusion; and 3) identifying, promoting and implementing sound policies that address exclusion from a multi-sectorial perspective. 
Education Transforms Lives Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO This brochure explores UNESCO’s role in leading and coordinating the Education 2030 Agenda, which is part of a global movement to eradicate poverty through 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Education, essential to achieve all of these goals, has its own dedicated Goal 4, which aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. UNESCO is the United Nations’ specialized agency for education and the Education Sector provides global and regional leadership in education and responds to contemporary global challenges through education with a special focus on gender equality and Africa.