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    • The 20s: Really The Best Age To Be (The UNESCO Courier) April-June 2021 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021-04)
      Young people are in the best position to understand and analyze what they have been going through since the health crisis started. This was the idea behind UNESCO’s Youth As Researchers (YAR) global initiative to explore ...
    • The 20s: Really the best age to be? 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021)
      Being young can be exciting and fun, but it is always challenging. Completing your studies, finding a job, finding somewhere to live-in short, taking the first steps of the rest of your life. If it was not easy before the ...
    • 4th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2019)
      Leave no one behind. That was the resounding message of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It enjoined Member States to ‘ensure inclusive ...
    • Access To Sexuality Education And Sexual And Reproductive Health Services For Young People In Higher And Tertiary Institutions Of Learning In Uganda 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
      Uganda is among the countries with the highest rates of new HIV infections in Sub Saharan Africa where young people aged 15-24 accounts for 60% of the 83,000 new infections. University Students are particularly vulnerable ...
    • Accountability in Education 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
    • Accounting For Variations In The Quality Of Primary School Education 

      Hungi, Njora (UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2011)
      This paper reports on the use of multivariate analyses procedures to examine pupil- and school-level factors that contributed to variations in reading and mathematics achievement among Grade 6 pupils in 15 African ...
    • Agenda 2030: challenges for us all 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
      In this issue Since 1948, the UNESCO Courier has served as a platform for international debates on issues that concern the entire planet. This first issue of 2017. which marks the Courier's revival after a five-year break, ...
    • Artificial intelligence: the promises and the threats 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
      Towards a global code of ethics for artificial intelligence research There have been spectacular advances in the field of artificial intelligence (Al) in recent years, leading to inventions that we had never thought ...
    • Best Practices Of Non-Violent Conflict Resolution In And Out-Of-School 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2002)
      “Good practices”, “better practices”, “best practices”… these are words often used in the field of education and in international jargon when alluding to development projects. But what are we trying to say when we employ ...
    • Building Better Formal TVET Systems 

      International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; The World Bank; UNESCO; The International Labour Organization (The World Bank, UNESCO and ILO, 2023)
      A broken link between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems and labor markets prevents TVET from delivering on its promise in low- and middle-income countries. With its unique focus on workforce ...
    • Capacity Building Workshop for Officials of KCCA and the Proposed New Ugandan Cities on "The UNESCO Cities 2030 Framework" 

      UNATCOM (UNATCOM, 2019)
      On 8th January 2019, Uganda National Commission for UNESCO convened a meeting for physical planners, town clerks and mayors from the nine municipalities that the Government of Uganda approved for elevation to city status ...
    • Caring and Learning Together 

      Yoshie, Kaga; John, Bennett; Peter, Moss (UNESCO, 2010)
      Early childhood care and education (ECCE) services embody two different traditions: care and education. The former was often developed as a welfare measure for working-class children who needed care while their parents ...
    • Characteristics Of School Heads And Their Schools 

      Hungi, Njora (UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2011)
      In this paper, the author examines the characteristics of school heads and their schools in 15 African schools systems (Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, ...
    • Climate Change Vulnerability Hotspots in The East African Indian Ocean Islands 

      Ogada, Tom. M; Partey, Samuel; Ramasamy, Jayakumar; Owade, Ombaka; Obunga, Patrick (UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, 2022)
      This report is the first of its kind of the four island countries of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) that maps the climate change vulnerabilities of each and provide a regional comparison. Climate change and its related ...
    • Climate Change Vulnerability Hotspots In The Eastern African 

      M. Ogada, Tom; Samuel, Partey; Ramasamy, Jayakumar; Ombaka, Owade; Obunga, Patrick (UNESCO, 2022)
      Climate change has become the greatest and most common challenge to socioeconomic development for Eastern Africa. Generating the necessary evidence to stimulate policy actions and implementing interventions for averting ...
    • Confintea VII Seventh International Conference on Adult Education: Final Report 

      UNESCO (UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Feldbrunnenstrasse 58 20148 Hamburg, Germany, 2023)
      The International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) is a UNESCO intergovernmental conference for policy dialogue on adult learning and education (ALE) and related research and advocacy, which has taken place every ...
    • Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Education 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2011)
      The format of this publication presents the main strands concerning the role of human rights education as well as the key elements for its implementation. Each strand addresses current issues and challenges faced when ...
    • Corrupt schools, corrupt universities 

      Jacques, Hallak; Muriel, Poisson (UNESCO, 2007)
      In a context of budget austerity and pressure on international flows of funds, there is a clear demand for more efficiency in the use of public resources. Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries ...
    • Education About The Holocaust And Preventing Genocide 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
      Our rapidly changing, globalized world creates an urgency to ensure that education is helping young people become responsible global citizens. To play a role in shaping the future, young people must have a better ...