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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. 
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. 
The World We Want: A Guide to the Goals for Children and Young People Year of publication: 2015 Author: Dora Bardales | Paola Arenas Corporate author: Global Movement for Children of Latin America and Caribbean | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The purpose of this guide is to help children and young people understand the Sustainable Development Goals, how they impact their life and what they can do every day to help their government achieve the Goals. 
Course: Dialogue and Dialogue Etiquette Year of publication: 2017 Author: Fath Omar Corporate author: Majmaah University The course includes two topics of dialogue and disagreement. It seeks to form the Muslim to be a tactful interlocutor and able to manage the conflict between him and his society and his counterparts. The course deals with one of the important pillars of global citizenship issues, which is dialogue. 
Community Centers Guide Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Protection Cluster Yemen Community centers are an important part of the Protection Cluster strategy in Yemen in order to ensure that communities remain at the center of providing services and community-based activities, including those displaced from war-affected areas and host communities and children, youth and women. 
On the International Day for Tolerance: Calls for Coexistence and the Rejection of Intolerance Year of publication: 2020 Author: Wijdan Alrubai Corporate author: Awraas TV On the International Day for Tolerance, the broadcaster on the TV program hosts some specialists to speak about tolerance and reject intolerance in the Arab world. Through the program, the difference in the concept of tolerance among the speakers is shown and raised as an issue in the Arab world. 
Pandemic May Expose Social Protest in Central Asia Year of publication: 2020 Author: Alexey Malashenko Corporate author: Russian International Affairs Council The coronavirus has become a serious test of the strength of the political systems of Central Asian countries. Despite the severe socio-economic impact of the pandemic, stability has been ensured. But in the long run, quarantines and tight restrictions will remind of themselves and expose old problems. Among the most acute are unemployment and the threat of violent extremism. Moreover, both problems are related. 
Radicalization in Central Asia: Have We Managed to Avoid It? Year of publication: 2020 Author: Milan Lazovic Corporate author: Russian International Affairs Council Central Asia is a very multifaceted, multi-ethnic, multi-confessional region, where many cultures, national traditions and ways of life intersect, united by a common factor - religious. The authors of the chapter on the role of religion in Central Asia in the book "Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union", prepared by the analytical center "RAND Corporation", touched upon a very important, significant and influential topic on the region. Experts note that, despite the success of Central Asia's attempts to avoid large-scale radicalization, there is a risk of its expansion today. 
Strategies to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence: The Experience of Education Unions in Africa Year of publication: 2019 Author: Rex Fyles Corporate author: Education International (EI) | United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) | Gender at Work This document draws on the experience of nine EI member organisations in seven African countries committed to combatting SRGBV in their contexts. It presents the wide range of actions and strategies education unions can initiate to confront the challenges SRGBV poses to their students, members, organisations and societies. This collection of union experiences is intended to inform and inspire education unions and their members to test their own approaches to eliminating SRGBV. The document will also inform other stakeholders in the education sector interested in learning more about the unique strengths and specific roles education unions can play as partners in collective efforts to end SRGBV.The document is divided into two parts. The first section focuses on actions these unions have taken internally to adapt decision- making structures, update policies and deploy resources to empower their members to act. The second section looks at how education unions have reached out to other stakeholders – legislators, ministries, civil society organisations, traditional leaders, parents, media and learners – to pursue coordinated strategies for change. 
Working to End School Related Gender Based Violence: Writings by Representatives of Education Unions From Eastern, West and Southern Africa Year of publication: 2019 Author: Shamim Meer Corporate author: Gender at Work | Labour Research Service (LRS) | Global Affairs Canada (GAC) | United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) | Education International (EI) School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) is violence that undermines the bodily integrity, human rights, and gender equality of all those involved in the school but primarily that of the school child.In 2016, 7 teacher unions i.e. SADTU and NAPTOSA from South Africa, BETUZ and ZNUT from Zambia, UNATU from Uganda, ETA from Ethiopia and KNUT from Kenya and in 2018, SLTU from Sierra Leone, GTU from the Gambia and the staff from the Ghana-based Education International Regional Africa Office - actively engaged in a Gender at Work - Gender Action Learning Process (GAL).The main aim of this specific GAL process was to create a participatory EI pilot program in Southern, East and West Africa focusing on individual teachers’ and teacher unions’ capacity to address SRGBV. With the support of Gender at Work facilitators, participants strengthened their understanding of gender inequality and gender based violence in the context of the school. Throughout the GAL Process participants spoke from their hearts, sharing inspirational stories of change.