5th UNESCO Forum on Transformative Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship, Health and Well-being (Strand 4)

Strand 4 – What does progress in transformative education look like – conclusions and next steps

Plenary session 4

The Strand assessed how to best capture progress including possible benchmarks and success indicators in addressing different aspects of transformative education and discussed the way forward.

Moderator: Ms Vibeke Jensen, Director, Division of Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO

Presentation of the key ideas for recommendation:

• Mr Alexander Leicht, Chief of Section of Education for Sustainable Development, UNESCO

Discussants:

• Mr Nilantha Gunasekara, Deputy Director, School Health and Nutrition Branch, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka
• Ms Chandrika Bahadur, Director, SDG Academy
• Ms Katarina Popovic, Professor, Department of Andragogy, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Secretary General, the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
• Mr Hyun Mook Lim, Director, APCEIU
• Mr Aaron Benavot, Professor, University of Albany, USA

Concurrent sessions 4

In the concurrent sessions, concrete policy recommendations on advancing transformative education and creating enabling conditions were formulated by policymakers, practitioners and monitoring experts.

Session 4.1 – Policy makers

Moderator: Mr Sam Loni, Programme Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, USA

Speakers:

• Ms Catherine Matara, Assistant Director of Education, Ministry of Education, Kenya
• Ms Sandra Allison Soria Mendoza, Head of the Environmental Education Unit and Environmental Education Specialist, Ministry of Education of Peru
• Ms Saher Baig, Representative, Youth4Climate

Session 4.2 – Practitioners

Moderator: Ms Monica Froehler, CEO, Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens

Speakers:

• Mr Umair Mushtaq, Project Manager, The Little Art, Pakistan
• Ms Elena Diryugina, Head of methodology and evaluation department, Investment to the Future, Russian Federation
• Ms Libby Giles, Head of Global Citizenship, St Cuthbert’s College, Director, New Zealand Centre for Global Studies, New Zealand

Session 4.3 – Monitoring experts on measurement frameworks, M&E, and data

Moderator: Mr Ralph Carstens, Senior Research Advisor, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)

Speakers:

• Ms Mónika Réti, Representative of Hungary, UNECE working group on monitoring of the ESD strategy
• Mr Le Anh Vinh, Deputy Director General, Viet Nam Institute of Educational Sciences (VNIES)
• Mr Hilaire Hounkpodoté, Coordinator of the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems (PASEC), CONFEMEN
• Mr Guy-Roger Kaba, Coordinator of the Observatory on the Quality of Education, CONFEMEN

Links to Strand 1 / Strand 2 & Special Session / Strand 3