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Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Seminar on Global Citizenship Education, UNHQ; New York, 6 March 2015 Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO Director-General, 2009- (Bokova, I.G.) This document is an address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of "Seminar on Global Citizenship Education" in New York, 6 March 2015. She highlights the importance of GCED for education in the 21st century. 
Education 2030: Incheon declaration and framework for action towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | World Bank This framework — painstakingly drafted over many months with input from governments, international agencies, civil society and experts — provides guidance for implementing the education commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at a national, regional and global level. In particular: it aims at mobilizing all countries and partners around Sustainable Education Goal 4 and its targets;it proposes ways of implementing, coordinating, financing and monitoring the new commitments; andit proposes indicative strategies which countries may wish to draw upon in developing their plans, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities. Educação 2030 Declaração de Incheon Rumo a uma educação de qualidade inclusiva e equitativa e à educação ao longo da vida para todos Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) This framework — painstakingly drafted over many months with input from governments, international agencies, civil society and experts — provides guidance for implementing the education commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at a national, regional and global level. In particular: it aims at mobilizing all countries and partners around Sustainable Education Goal 4 and its targets; it proposes ways of implementing, coordinating, financing and monitoring the new commitments; and it proposes indicative strategies which countries may wish to draw upon in developing their plans, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities. 
Supplement to Framework for Reopening Schools: Emerging Lessons From Country Experiences in Managing the Process of Reopening Schools Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank | World Food Programme | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Education systems around the world continue to grapple with the complex decisions of when and how to reopen schools for in-person learning following widespread closures due to the COVID 19 pandemic. This supplement to the Framework for reopening schools, originally published jointly by UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Bank, the World Food Programme, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in April 2020, summarizes emerging lessons learnt over the past months.The supplement follows the four main dimensions of the Framework (safe operations, focus on learning, wellbeing & protection, and reaching the most marginalized) and highlighting a number of country examples. 
Framework for Reopening Schools; April, 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank | World Food Programme By late April, nationwide school closures were still disrupting the learning of more than 73 per cent of students, or more than 1.2 billion children and youth. When deciding whether to reopen schools, authorities should look at the benefits and risks across education, public health and socio-economic factors, in the local context, using the best available evidence. The best interest of every child should be paramount.The guidelines aim to inform the decision-making process regarding school reopening, support national preparations and guide the implementation process, as part of overall public health and education planning processes. It is designed to be a flexible tool that can be adapted to each context and updated as the situation changes. The guidelines outline six key priorities to assess the readiness of those schools and inform planning. 
Report of the 2019 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development "Empowering people and ensuring inclusion and equality in the Arab region" Year of publication: 2019 Author: United Nations Corporate author: United Nations (UN) The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the League of Arab States and the United Nations system working in the Arab region, organized the 2019 Arab Forum on Sustainable Development under the theme 'Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusion and Equality in the Arab Region', in Beirut, from 9 to 11 April 2019. 
[Video] Learning about SDG 4 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Life is continual learning, we learn to read to understand a constantly changing role, to participate and to live together. We learn in the classroom and beyond its world. Cities are places of opportunity but they can be also be places of exclusion. There are 758 million people over the age 15 in the world who can't read or write. Two out of three of them are women. Local governments because they are close to the people are able to respond to their needs and contribute to create equal educational opportunities. They work to ensure that facilities are ideal for learning and community life. They promote the adoption of sustainable life styles and provide education in values. Local government work with educators and administrations to ensure adequate resources and to improve education. In all these ways local governments contribute to achieve sustainable development goals for ensuring inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. 
Indigenous Knowledge and practices in Education in Latin America: Exploratory Analysis of How Indigenous Cultural Worldviews and Concepts Influence Regional Educational Policy Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This study presents a preliminary exploration of the approaches, processes and tools through which indigenous worldviews and concepts of knowledge and well-being can and have influenced education policies in Latin America. First, it addresses the principal theoretical approaches used in the area of indigenous knowledge and education policies, taking into account the persistence of an “epistemic otherness” and the need for a dialogue between the predominant approaches. Second, it addresses the normative framework and intercultural educational policies, emphasizing how and to what extent the countries in the region take indigenous knowledge into consideration and include it in their education policies and practices. Third, it presents a number of “relevant practices” in terms of dialogue with indigenous knowledge in education policies, taking into account the factors that favour the relevance of education to indigenous views and cultural practices, facilitating their replicability and sustainability. Furthermore, these practices respond to key criteria like recognizing learners as ‘carriers’ and producers of culture, valuing the use of schools as centres of social and cultural activities and favouring the inclusive learning of indigenous and non-indigenous students. Finally, the study unveils challenges for the advancement of the dialogue between indigenous knowledge and education policies, at the same time proposing key concepts to be approached in depth. 
Regional Strategy for UNESCO’s Response to the Situation of People on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019-2021: Working Document Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This document introduces the three priority strategic areas, defined in coherence with those analyzed in the document Background for a Regional Strategy of UNESCO, as well as the components and initiatives of each of them. In addition, the following strategic dimensions are established: coordination and implementation mechanisms, advocacy and communications, planning and financing, and finally, the consolidation of resources, tools and existing publications of UNESCO, a product of the aforementioned intersectoral consultation process. 
Context and Background: Regional Strategy for UNESCO’s Response to the Situation of People on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago The UNESCO offices in Latin America and the Caribbean, under the coordination of the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, have proposed the development of a regional strategy that provides a response from UNESCO based on the needs of the region’s countries for guaranteeing the right to education of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and returnees. The purpose of this document is to present key information for the development of the regional strategy. It reviews a set of information that contextualizes human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, recognizing contemporary trends, identifying their driving factors and describing the main demographic qualities that characterize them.The authors then address the needs for protection of individuals in the context of mobility in the region, particularly those associated with the exercise of their fundamental rights and processes of inclusion in social protection systems in the destination society. They then present the right to education as a multiplier right in contexts of human mobility, reviewing the main obstacles faced by migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and returnees. Finally, the text presents a discussion of UNESCO’s role in this context based on the review of international regulatory instruments and frameworks, institutional frameworks, the work agenda at the regional level and the migratory institutional structure in Latin America and the Caribbean.