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Sub-regional Workshop on implementation of GCED and ESD in Almaty, Kazakhstan

The 2nd Sub-regional Workshop on implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) was co-hosted by APCEIU and UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office on 27-29 September 2016 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. 

 

Last year, in partnership with UNESCO, UNESCO Bangkok Office, UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office and Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), APCEIU co-organized the Sub-Regional Workshop on GCED for educators in Central Asia, which identified the need to strengthen capacities of teachers and educators at a local level in order to conduct GCED in classrooms effectively.

 

Therefore, the 2016 workshop aimed to agree on a number of activities, which could be developed to strengthen ESD and GCED joint efforts and activities at a local level, in collaboration with a number of partners in Central Asia. The targeted group in the 2016 training workshop consisted of representatives from local/district education departments in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, including teachers from selected schools of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project (ASP) in respective countries. Also the experts from UNESCO, APCEIU, OSCE, UNICEF and other international, regional and national organizations and NGOs shared their experiences and practices for a better understanding of global, regional and national education trends and challenges in ESD and GCED.

 

Moreover, the Workshop examined strategies for practical local level implementation of ESD and GCED, including Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE), in order to achieve the target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 in Central Asia. 

 

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