1. Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development
20 April 2017
Learning to live together sustainably

2. Role of UNESCO Advocating for ESD at the international level
Providing support to Member States in reorienting education
Implementing and coordinating the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD
Supporting key partners and projects
Raising awareness and visibility
Vision
A world where everyone has the opportunity to benefit from quality education and learn the values, behaviours and lifestyles required for a sustainable future and for positive social transformation.
ESD means acquiring knowledge about key issues such as cc, biodiversity disaster risk reduction and sustainable consumption while also changing the traditional perception of educational processes as it promotes whole intuitional approaches and pedogocals changes

3. GAP Global Coordination by UNESCO
Setting the ESD Global Agenda
Building New Momentum: Launch Commitments
Harnessing Partnerships: Partner Networks
Fostering a Global Community of Practice: Global Forum and Online Clearinghouse
Showcasing Good Practice: UNESCO-Japan Prize for ESD

4. Target 4.7 of Goal 4 calls for: "by 2030 all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development".

5. Priority Action Areas Advancing policy
Transforming learning and training environments
Building capacity of educators and trainers
Empowering and mobilizing youth
Accelerating sustainable solutions at local level
Vision
A world where everyone has the opportunity to benefit from quality education and learn the values, behaviours and lifestyles required for a sustainable future and for positive social transformation.
ESD means acquiring knowledge about key issues such as cc, biodiversity disaster risk reduction and sustainable consumption while also changing the traditional perception of educational processes as it promotes whole intuitional approaches and pedogocals changes
 Partner Networks and implementation of a Flagship Project for each of the priority action areas

6. ESD in the world today
“By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, … .”
Presence of ESD internationally and nationally further increasing
Key challenges:
from pilot to policy
from small scale to large scale
from margin to mainstream
Implementation of Global Action Programme to scale up ESD
Globally, we detect continuous growing support for ESD. The most recent strong international commitment was made at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development’s, better known as Rio+20. Countries resolved in Rio to promote ESD beyond the end of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
The United Nations Decade of ESD has been successful several fronts including raising awareness, mobilizing stakeholders across the globe, creating a platform for international collaboration, influencing policies and contributing to the coordination of stakeholders at the national level, and finally, generating large amounts of concrete good ESD practice projects in all areas of education and learning.
Considerable challenges remain: successful activities in ESD often merely operate within fixed timeframes and with limited budgets; ESD policies and practices are often not properly linked; ESD has yet to complete its integration into the mainstream of the education and sustainable development agendas. Furthermore, sustainable development challenges have acquired even more urgency since the beginning of the Decade and new concerns have come to the forefront, such as the need to promote global citizenship. Consequently, a scaling-up of ESD actions is required. 6

7. 5 Ps of the 2030 Agenda Planet: Respect and safeguard our common home
Link with education to lessen environmental degradation and the impact of climate change
People: Leave no one behind and attain sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles
Include education in plans to help people fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment
Peace: Live in peaceful, diverse, harmonious societies, free from fear and violence
Maximize education’s potential to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies
Prosperity: Transform societies to have sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and sustainable lifestyles
Utilize education to reduce poverty and stimulate green and inclusive economies
Partnership: Strengthen global solidarity to achieve the SDGs
Ensure adequate financing, policy coherence and multisector capacity

8. Education for Sustainable Development Goals – Learning objectives
concise guidance on learning content and approaches to teach key sustainable development challenges
structured along the SDGs, providing age-specific learning content for each SDG
address key competencies needed to implement the SDGs, as well as transformative pedagogies to teach them

9. Monitoring of Target 4.7
contribute to monitoring SDG Target 4.7 and provide inputs for overall monitoring of SDG 4
contribute to online database for reporting initiatives related to Target 4.7
develop thematic reports related to Target 4.7

10. Symposia on the Future of ESD
cutting-edge debate on non-conventional questions about the future of ESD
to plan ahead for the time after the GAP and to contextualize ESD within the SDGs
2 already have taken place: Omori (Japan) & Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
3 more to come in South Africa, Dubai, Latin America

11. Harnessing partnerships – Partner Networks
2nd GAP Partner Network consultation meeting (July 2016, UNESCO HQ)
85 organizations from around the world are Key Partners
developing flagship projects for each Priority Action Area
Members of Partner Networks:

12. 2017 GAP Review Forum – Ottawa, March 2017
The 2017 Global Forum:
reviewed progress of GAP implementation since the 2014 World Conference on ESD
discussed emerging issues and innovative developments in ESD, as well as plans for the coming years of the GAP
organized back to back with the 3rd Forum on Global Citizenship Education

13. Showcasing Good Practice
2015 & 2016 – first editions of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD
6 winning organizations from Cameroon, Germany, Guatemala & El Salvador, Indonesia, Japan and the United Kingdom
Participate in the 2017 Prize call for nominations (deadline May 2nd) :

14. Timeline 2014 2015 2017 2019 Activities of Members of Partner Networks
UNESCO World Conference on ESD launches the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD
2015
First meeting of Partner Networks
Launch of online GAP ESD Clearinghouse
2017
Global Review Forum for the GAP on ESD
Mid-term report on the GAP on ESD
Progress report on GAP implementation to UNGA 72
2019
Final report on the 1st phase of the GAP on ESD
Activities of Members of Partner Networks
Flagship Projects

15. Thank you Learn more: en.unesco.org/gap @UNESCO
Bernard Combes, Information Officer
Section of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
UNESCO