SDG 4.A: Build and Upgrade Inclusive and Safe Schools

“…We are confident that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), anchored in SDG 4.7 and as an enabler for all 17 SDGs, is the foundation for the required transformation, providing everyone with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to become change agents for sustainable development. ESD...

“Learning can be so much fun if you know where to go! We’ve made a list of the best children’s museums in Europe. Which ones are we missing?”

Disaster impacted countries and communities are often times much better equipped to Build Back Better during the extended period of recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction when they have taken actions to strengthen recovery capacity and decision-making effectiveness prior to the onset of...

“…There has been considerable progress in addressing the environmental impacts of tourism, although there is a long way to go to achieve sustainability; and that more limited progress has been made in harnessing tourism for local economic development, for the benefit of communities and indigenous...

“Welcome to the CILIP Local Studies Group Toolkit. The Toolkit is a freely accessible online guide that will help and inspire local studies professionals and para-professionals to provide an excellent local studies service within their authority. We also hope that it will be of use to others in the...

“Today, the Agenda 21 for culture has been consolidated as an essential declaration for all those cities which give an important role to culture in sustainable development. The declaration is cited by mayors and councillors, but also by civil society and cultural actors, an unequivocal sign of its...

“How to improve citizen participation in public life at local level? More and more local authorities face and address this challenge. The CLEAR tool was designed to help them in their endeavour by providing an instrument for a self-assessment process that helps develop policy responses which are...

“The Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda report, which was launched in September 2021, calls for an acceleration of efforts to meet the SDGs and a ‘profound deepening of solidarity between generations.’ It lays out a number of suggested activities that could be considered by Member States and the...

“This is a best practice guide to community arts projects in Aotearoa New Zealand: our Keteparaha Mō Ngā Toi Hapori.

Community arts are created by, with, and for a community. The community is actively involved in creating, or learning how to create the art. Community arts projects are usually...

“Most tellingly, the papers show us many valuable achievements of being ‘community-based’; many questions are raised, not least of all being ‘what does it mean to be community-based’? From individuals up to the level of national government, the papers show a broad range of initiators who reveal that...

“…Little effort has been made to analyze the complex relations between heritage, conflict, peace and individual freedom. The lack of heritage-based metrics for peace has also placed professionals on-the-ground in a difficult position. They bear a heavy responsibility to ensure that their...

“The Community-Led Libraries Toolkit is designed for library staff fulfilling diverse roles - from those who serve the community directly at the circulation desk to those who plan services, develop policy, or manage library operations. The Toolkit provides background and contextual information, case...