INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Perspectives from the JPOI and the Framework fo

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• INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES IN ENVIRONMENTAL
  EDUCATION Perspectives from the JPOI and the
  Framework for a Draft Implementation Scheme on
  the DESD

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THE UNITED NATIONS MANDATE
to promote higher standards of living, full
employment and conditions of economic and social
progress and development.
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WHAT THE UN DOES

• For Peace
• Disarmament
• Peacemaking
• Peace-building
• Peacekeeping

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WHAT THE UN DOES

• For Justice, Human Rights International Law
• Human Rights
• International Law
• Ending Impunity

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WHAT THE UN DOES

• For Humanitarian Assistance
• Emergency Assistance
• Humanitarian Response

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WHAT THE UN DOES

• For Development
• Setting the Agenda
• Assistance for Development
• Pooling Resources

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THE UN
plays a crucial role in international consensus
building on actions for development.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Sets priorities and goals for development through
a series of 10-year International Development
Strategies also known as the Development
Decade(s).
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THE UN
has been responsible for formu-lating new key
development objectives such as sustainable
development, advancement of women, human rights,
environmental protection and good governance and
programmes to achieve them.
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UN Mandate
UN promotes consensus building

• GA sets priorities goals thru 10-yr IDS

World Conferences
UN formulates new key devt. objectives
programmes
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The Millenium Development Goals

• Halving extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieving universal primary
• education
• Promoting gender equality
• Reducing under-five mortality by 2/3

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The Millenium Development Goals

• Reducing maternal mortality by ¾
• Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria
• TB
• Ensuring environmental sustainability
• Developing a global partnership for
• development, with targets for aid, trade
• debt relief

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WORLD CONFERENCES
Meant to identify practical ways of solving
global problems in a range of areas-education
(1990), environment and development (1992), human
rights (1993) population and development (1994),
social development (1995), human settlements
(1996), etc..
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BASEL CONVENTION1989

• CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
• Stockholm, 1972
• Framework for Environmental Action
• Governing Council for Environmental Programs
• Environment Secretariat
• Environment Fund

VIENNA CONVENTIONMONTREAL PROTOCOL1987

• EARTH SUMMIT
• Rio de Janeiro, 1992
• Agenda 21
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Convention on Biodiversity
• Forest principles

ROTTERDAM CONVENTIONSEPT., 1998
POPs CONVENTIONMAY 2001
KYOTO PROTOCOLDEC., 1997
WSSD2002
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THE EARTH SUMMIT IN RIO IN 1992

• Produced the Agenda 21 whose Chapter 36 was on
  Promoting Education, Public Awareness and
  Training
• Programme Areas are on
• reorienting education towards sustainable
  development
• increasing public awareness
• promoting training

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WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Produced the Johannesburg Plan of
  Implementation
• Which is envisioned to build on the UNCED
  outcomes and completely achieve the Earth
  Summits goals
• Which emphasized the critical role of education
  in sustainable development.

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Specifically, the JPOI emphasized

• The need for the bilateral and multilateral
  donors to complement the efforts of national
  governments in
• meeting the MDG of achieving universal
  primary education by 2015
• providing financial assistance support to
  education, research,public awarenessprogrammes,etc
  
• addressing the impact of HIV/AIDs on the
  educational system of countries seriously
  affected
• allocating resources for basic education as
  proposed by the Dakar Framework for Action on
  Education for all

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Specifically, the JPOI emphasized

• Eliminating gender disparity in primary
  secondary education by 2005
• Integrating sustainable development into all
  levels of the educational system
• Developing, monitoring and reviewing
  education action plans and programmes at the
  national,sub-national and local levels reflecting
  the Dakar Framework for Action
• Providing all community members with a wide
  range of formal non-formal continuing
  educational opportunities, incl. volunteer
  community service programmes

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• Supporting the use of education to promote
  sustainable development by a.) integrating
  information communications technology in school
  curriculum development b.) promoting affordable
  increased access to programmes for students ,
  c.) continuing to implement the work programme of
  the Commission on Sustainable Development on
  education for SD and d.) recommending to the UN
  General Assembly that it consider a decade of
  education from sustainable development, starting
  in 2005.

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UN DECADE FOR SD( 2005-2014)

• recommended by the WSSD to the UNGA
• adopted by the UNGA through Resolution 57/254
  in December,2002
• UNESCO was designated lead agency and was
  requested to develop a draft international
  implementation scheme

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THE UN DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SD

• Aims to
• promote education as a basis for a more
  sustainable human society integrate sustainable
  development into education systems at all levels.

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FOUR MAJOR THRUSTS

• Promotion improvement of basic education
• Reorienting existing education programmes
• Developing public awareness and understanding of
  sustainability
• Training

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UN Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development Framework for a Draft International
Implementation Scheme

• CONTENTS
• Preamble
• Sect.1 Education for Sustainable Development
• Sect.II A Partnership Approach to the DESD
• Sect.III Initiating the DESD

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PREAMBLE

• Provides premises like
• Rationale for the framework, I.e. directive
  from the UNGA to UNESCO as lead agency to develop
  the framework
• linkages with the other international
  education priorities, e.g. Dakar Framework for
  Action and the UN Literacy Decade

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SECTION I

• Elaborates the nature of education for
  sustainable development, clarifying its links to
  other international education processes
  priorities
• Highlights the synergistic nature of SD
  education the priority areas of poverty
  alleviation,gender equality, health promotion,
  conservation protection of the natural resource
  base, etc

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SECTION II

• Describes the partnership approach to the
  development of the draft implementation scheme
  for the DESD
• Outlines a range of possible strategies for
  enhancing participation, ownership commitment by
  partners in the Decade
• Emphasizes support for initatives at the local
  level.

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SECTION III

• Concludes the framework with a proposed schedule
  of activities which will catalyze world society
  for the DESD, from July,2003-December,2005.
• Activities are organized into a.) communication
  advocacy and b.) building momentum,
  partnerships and support for the Decade.

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How do we make education work for sustainable
development?

• If SD requires a.) recognition of the challenge,
  b.) collective responsibility leadership, c.)
  acting with determination,and d.) indivisibility
  of human dignity
• Education provides skills for a.) learning to
  know, b.)learning to live together,c.)learning to
  do, and d.) learning to be.

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Proposed Focus of the Framework in the Four
Domains of Education

• Basic Education Sharing knowledge,
  skills,values perspectives through a lifetime
  of learning, I.e. encouraging public
  participation community decisionmaking.
• Re-orienting Existing Education Programs-Review
  of existing curricula to develop
  transdisciplinary understandings of social,
  economic and environmental sustainability Review
  of recommended mandated approaches to teaching,
  learning assessment

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• Developing public awareness understanding of
  sustainability-Widespread community education a
  responsible media committed to encouraging an
  informed active citizenry.
• Training-Vocational professional training for
  the workforce within business industry to
  enable them to make decisions perform their
  work in a sustainable manner.

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Linking DESD, EFA the UNLD Key Themes

• Overcoming Poverty
• Gender Equality
• Health Promotion
• Environmental Conservation Protection
• Rural Transformation
• Human Rights
• Inter-cultural Understanding Peace
• Sustainable Production Consumption
• Cultural Diversity
• Information Communication Technologies

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Developing Partnerships for the DESD

• Vision-a two-pronged vision first, the overall
  vision of ESD to which all partners subscribe and
  second, the particular vision for ESD within the
  partners own aims, concerns programmes

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• Demonstration Activities- development of
  demonstration activities and programmes for
  adaptation in locally relevant culturally
  appropriate ways.
• Networking- As ESD concerns all kinds of
  educational structures learning situations,
  modelling of these processes would be critical
  for spelling out the whys and hows of building
  partnerships.

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THE UN SYSTEM IN THE PHILIPPINES

• Is currently in the process of synchronizing and
  harmonizing programmes and interventions
• Is in the process of producing a new UNDAF (UN
  Development Framework) based on a Common Country
  Assessment (CCA).
• Will produce their respective Country Programme
  Documents (CPDs) and Country Action Plans.

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How the UN Agencies Collaborate Locally the UNDAF

• The UN Development Assistance Framework is the
  common strategic framework for the operational
  activities of the UN system at the country level.

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The UNDAF

• Forges agreement on a rights-based strategic
  results driven support of the UN system to
  country led efforts to achieve national
  priorities goals within the MDG context.
• Generates greater synergy sharper focus of
  programmes projects supported by the UN
  agencies.

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• Ensures greater long term impact of the UN system
  development cooperation in terms of domestic
  capacity development sustainability of results.
• Integrates crisis/conflict prevention
  peacebuilding into development cooperation.
• Ensures better mitigation planning disaster
  preparedness to address natural disasters and
  man-made crisis.

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• Ensures more efficient use of available UN
  resources mobilization of additional resources
  through strategic partnerships with other
  development partners.
• Provides a common plan and mechanism to monitor
  evaluate the effectiveness of the UN system
  cooperation.

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THE FORTHCOMING UNDAF IN THE PHILIPIPPINES

• Resulted from the Common Country Assessment (CCA)
  process
• Will work in 5 thematic areas
• Governance
• Basic Social Services
• Environment
• Peace Development
• Economic Growth Poverty Reduction

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THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

• At the forefront of UN efforts to bring social
  economic progress
• The UNs largest provider of grants for
  sustainable human development
• Works in 174 countries and territories to
  facilitate technical cooperation and eradicate
  poverty

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SUBSTANTIVE FOCUS

• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention Recovery
• Energy Environment
• Information Communications Technology
• HIV/AIDS

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THE UNDP IN THE PHILIPPINES WORKS IN THE AREAS
OF.

• Creating an Enabling Environment Poverty
  Reduction Through Good Governance
• Empowerment of the Poor
• Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
• Establishing the Foundations for Peace
  Development

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THE SECOND COUNTRY COOPERATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE
PHILIPPINES

• Outlines the agreement between the UNDP the GoP
  through the NEDA
• Reflects the results recommendations from the
  review of the previous CCF
• Builds on existing partnerships
• Underpinned by crosscutting issues like human
  rights gender
• Institutionalizes results orientation

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THE PORTFOLIO ON ENSURING ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY

• Supports 2 Outcomes
• Strengthened, rationalized and effectively
  implemented environment natural resources
  policies, frameworks plans
• Streamlined ENR services and strengthened
  sustainable development planning and
  implementation capacity

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• TRAC Funded Programmes
• ENR Framework Development
• EPIC (Environmental Programme for Industry
  Competitiveness)
• MSD (Mainstreaming Sustainable Development)
• National Coastal Marine Strategy
• Updating the Forestry Master Plan
• Updating the Tourism Master Plan

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• Global Environment Facility- Climate Change
• Capacity Building for Renewable Energy
  Development (CBRED)
• Enabling Activity for Climate Change
• Palawan New Renewable Energy Livelihood
  Support Program
• Philippine Efficient Lighting Market
  Transformation Project

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• Global Environment Facility- Biodiversity
• Samar Island Biodiversity Project
• Bohol Marine Triangle
• Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park World
  Heritage Site
• Sustainable Management of Mount Isarog
• Enabling Activity on Biodiversity
• Phil. Indigenous Crops Wild Relatives
• National Capacity Self Assessment

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• Global Environment Facility- Other Focal Areas
• Partnerships in Environmental Management for
  the Seas of East Asia
• Demonstration of Viability Removal of
  Barriers that Impede Adoption Effective
  Implementation of Available, Non-Combustion
  Technologies for Destroying POPs
• Enabling Activity on POPs

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• Small Grants Programmes
• GEF-RNE Small Grants Programme
• SGP for Operations to Promote Tropical
  Forestry in Asia
• SGP-Community Management of Protected Areas
  Conservation (COMPACT)

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PROGRAMMES PROJECTS

• Others
• Community-Based Ecological Solid Wastes
  Management in MetroManila
• Public -Private Sector Convergence for Solid
  Wastes Co-Governance in Urban Poor Areas
• Environmental Protection in Support of the
  Livelihood Programme Component in the Lake Lanao
  Area
• River Basin Watershed Management Programme
  in Liguasan Marsh
• Multi-Purpose Pilot Photovoltaic Wind Turbine
  System for Rural Electrification in the
  Philippines

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