UNESCO Publications: Recent submissions

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    • Reinventing cities 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2019)
      In this issue Cities have always been centres of power, attractiveness and prosperity. But the frenetic urbanization of recent decades is jeopardizing their historical function as melting pots that integrate and absorb ...

    • 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 ...

    • Gender perspectives of Water Use and Governance in Eastern Africa: a Systematic Review 

      Mary Nyasimi; Samuel Tetteh Partey; Jayakumar Ramasamy; Anne Lilande; Alexandros Makarigakis (UNESCO, 2023)
      This report examines the extent to which water initiatives (policies, strategies, plans, projects and programmes) have integrated a gender lens in thirteen countries in Eastern Africa (namely, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, ...

    • Welcome to the Anthropocene! 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
      Waiting for the heroes As you begin reading this April-June 2018 issue of the Courier, you are living in the Phanerozoic eon, the Cainozoic era, the Quaternary period and the Holocene epoch. These are all subdivisions of ...

    • 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 ...

    • Youth And Skills 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2012)
      With just three years to go until the deadline for the Education for All goals that were set in Dakar, Senegal, it is vitally urgent to ensure that the collective commitments made by 164 countries in 2000 are met. ...

    • Using International Surveys Of Achievement And Literacy 

      Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2004)
      Recent years have seen an increasing number of international surveys of learning achievement of children and of functional literacy of adults. These include the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the Trends ...

    • UNEVOC In Action 2002-2003 

      UNESCO (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, 2004)
      In 1991, the General Conference of UNESCO decided to launch the International Project on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNEVOC). Two years later an Implementation Unit became operational in Berlin. The ...

    • Transforming TVET- From Idea To Action 

      UNESCO (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2012)

    • Towards An Open Learning World 

      Maren Ed., Elfert (UNESCO, 2002)
      An historical account of the creation and development of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) is presented. Written in honor of the 50th anniversary of UIE, this institutional history begins with a series of seven ...

    • The UNESCO Courier- Agenda 2030 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
      The publication of this issue marking the relaunch of the UNESCO Courier is particularly fitting, given that it falls within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that the United Nations adopted in September 2015. ...

    • The Right To Education 

      Daudet, Yves; Singh, Kishore (UNESCO, 2008)
      Today the international community is faced with increasingly serious problems: proliferating acts of violence and conflicts; poverty and illiteracy; the gap between rich and poor; and marginalization and social exclusion ...

    • Textbooks For Sustainable Development 

      UNESCO (UNESCO MGIEP, 2017)
      THE INTERCONNECTED environmental, economic, social and political challenges facing humanity call for education that enables young people to engage creatively and responsibly with the world. We need education for ...

    • School Violence And Bullying 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
      A 2012 report by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children1 notes that ‘more than one billion children around the world attend school. Many of these children enjoy their right ...

    • World Education Forum 2015 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015)
      This summary report is based on the proceedings of the World Education Forum organized at Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015. Conveners and participants Convened by UNESCO, jointly with UNICEF, UN Women, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Accountability in Education 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)

    • Global Education Monitoring Report- Education for People and Planet 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2016)

    • 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 ...

    • Water People and Cooperation 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015)
      The initiation of IHD had a profound effect on the conduct of hydrological research in Canada. The setting up of a series of small representative and experimental basins in which instrumentation and measurement ...