UNESCO. EDUCATION THIS WEEK (31 Aug – 4 Sep 2020)

#LEARNINGNEVERSTOPS CAMPAIGN FOCUSING ON GIRLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--w6-bk-amg&feature=emb_logo Dear colleagues, The #LearningNeverStops campaignwas launched on Monday this week. This campaign focuses on ensuring that every girl is able to learn while schools are closed and return to the classroom when schools safely reopen. How can you contribute to ensuring #LearningNeverStops for girls around the world? ·         Share our social media assets and campaign signature video (available in Eng, Fr and Sp). ·         Disseminate our Girls Back to School Guide(in Eng, Fr and Sp), Community Radio Toolkitand/or Youth Advocacy Toolkit(soon available in Fr and Sp) ·         Spread the word to join the campaign. Articles in connection to the campaign: What can I do to help advance girls’ education? Launch of ‘girls back to school’ guide A big thanks for your support! Keep safe.

CALL TO ACTION ON DOMESTIC FINACING OF EDUCATION

This call to action emerges from a webinar on 28th July 2020 convened by ActionAid. Hundreds of participants from developing country governments, civil society organisations, philanthropic foundations, unions and movements, UN agencies and multi-stakeholder partnerships came together to identify solutions to the coming crisis in domestic financing of public education. Read more here

CAN DEBT RELIEF AND CANCELLATION HELP TACKLE EDUCATION FINANCING CRISIS

Can debt relief and cancellation help tackle the global education financing crisis? Webinar hosted by the Global Campaign for Education to explore opportunities, challenges and potential roles for civil society. Wednesday, 9, Sept, 3-4:30 pm GMT+2 Register here: http://bit.ly/EduNotDebt

SERIES OF ONLINE WORKSHOPS ON HOW TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY THROUGH LEARNING

UNESCO is launching a series of online workshopson how totransform society through learning, starting from September 2020. The discussions will be organized in the framework of the new programme ESD for 2030, which will guide ESD implementation in the coming years. The first online workshop will take place on 9 September, 12:30 GMT+2 (Paris time)click hereto register.

LATEST NEWS

·         As a new academic year begins, UNESCO warns that only one third of students will return to school ·         ECLAC and UNESCO publish a document analyzing the challenges for education engendered by the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean ·         Call for Papers: Values, Knowledge and Curriculum in Global Citizenship Education ·         Why the world urgently needs a global plan to get all children safely back to school ·         Making Online Curriculum Accessible to Support SEL ·         Fostering Communities of Practice

JUST PUBLISHED

Building back equal: girls back to school guide also available in French and Spanish Keeping girls in the picture: community radio toolkit Keeping girls in the picture: youth advocacy toolkit Report on actions by the UNESCO office in Quito and Representation for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in response to COVID-19 Also available in Spanish