Month: March 2016

The Australian Government Department of Education and Training and the Australian APEC Study Centre is pleased to open the 2016 round of the Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship. 10 Fellowships for research are offered for female post-graduate researchers to work…

The Water and Urban Initiative will hold a Symposium on Sustainable Water Urban Water Environment in Jakarta on March 14, 2016 at the Double Tree by Hilton in Jakarta – Diponegoro. The objective of the symposium is to discuss various…

Joint statement by important organizations (UNEP, UN Habitat, ICLEI, CBD, WRI, WWF, IUCN, and the Inter-parliamentary Union) to commit to the multi-stakeholder partnership approach and to scale up action towards the SDGs. Read more

Although published in 2009, this guide is still useful for anyone setting up, planning or working with community development projects. Read more

This manual is for practitioners of multi-stakeholder partnerships for education. These are voluntary initiatives involving government, business and civil society players to seek to bring about positive change in education towards the Education for ALL goal. Read more

To support OGP countries’ pledge to use future national action plans to spur progress across the 17 SDGs, the OGP Support Unit and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative present this special edition of the Open Government Guide.  Read more

The Education World Forum took place from 17 to 20 January 2016. The event saw ministers and their senior advisers representing over 80 per cent of the world’s population gather to debate future education policy. Watch the Global Education Conversation…

In partnership with Eco Boys and Girls, Oikos International, Project Everyone, Action/2015 and The World’s Largest Lesson, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth (SDSN-Y) launched the ‪#‎KnowYourGoals global campaign. It has now spread over 42 countries and has…

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution recognizing Education for Sustainable Development as “a vital means of implementation for sustainable development”, taking note of UNESCO’s final report on the UN Decade of ESD, and reaffirming UNESCO’s lead….

The critical role of education in climate change was given the stamp of approval at the international climate conference, COP21, in Paris in December. Article 12 on education states that “parties shall cooperate in taking measures…to enhance climate change education,…