REPORT OF UNESCO EXPERT MEETING ON - APCEIU

The communication goals are:
• Information dissemination
• Advocacy
• Capacity building
Potential topics for the briefing papers include:
• ESD in general
• Rationale for ESD
• Implications of ESD for policy, programmes and practices
• FAQs
The briefing papers should be short, readable, thematic, audience-oriented and strategic. They should outline the
rationale for ESD and the philosophy – purpose, vision, underpinning values and principles according to United
Nations documents. Each briefing paper needs to be tailored to the specific target audience, addressing their issues
and concerns, using their language and terminology, and outlining the reasons from their perspectives be it policy,
economic, pedagogical. It should explain and interrelate all four components of ESD.
The Draft Regional-level Framework for Medium and Long-term Strategy for ESD
Creating an enabling environment and capacity building for ESD in the
Asia and Pacific region
Mapping
Briefing papers
Clear and Practical
Capacity building
Innovative and
effective practices
Strategy document
Communication
Advocacy
Training
Resource lists
Guidelines
FAQs
The strategy document or operational plan, to be developed in consultation with stakeholders, would be a readable
public document and would include the following:
• Regional vision, philosophy and purpose for education reoriented towards ESD, building on and bringing
together existing initiatives
• Rationale and background, outlining the purpose and consultative process for the development of the
framework
• Statement of values and principles that underpin and inform ESD from key documents
• Relationship of ESD to other initiatives
• Goals and audiences (from Creating an enabling environment and capacity building for ESD)
• Expected outcomes at various levels
• Operational principles (research-based, work consultatively with partners, modelling ESD principles)
• Objectives of the action plan
There would be an internal version of the plan which would include the deliverables and milestone dates which
could be presented or summarized in a matrix as follows:
Objectives
Activities to achieve
strategies
Outcomes or
deliverables
Milestone
dates
Who
Success
Indicators
Evaluation methods
Include baseline studies
Review progress in
mapping
Identify gaps and
needed work
The document should take a problem-solving approach based on scenarios and the principles of inclusion. It
should not be prescriptive or directive, but empowering, creating ownership among stakeholders, building on and
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