APFED Booklet on Good Practices and Innovative Activities 2005 ...

Mongolia
2007
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Multi-stakeholder Partnership Building to Promote Education
for Sustainable Development
Project Site Location Ulaanbaatar, Hustai, and Khelen Bayan
Background - Problems Addressed and Policy Responses
Sustainability, within the context of rapid socio-economic
transformation, needs to be further mainstreamed to raise
public awareness and prompt behavioural changes. As part
of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
of 2005 -2014 initiative, it is intended to strengthen the policy,
institutional and programmatic framework in Mongolia in
order to promote education in sustainability.
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Project Outline - Objectives and Activities
To forge social capacity on ESD*, it was proposed to (i) promote multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on
developing social capacity to undertake ESD, (ii) conduct assessment of ESD activities particularly in
higher education, (iii) develop a national action plan on ESD, (iv) support ESD curriculum development
for higher education, (v) establish a national network of educational institutions for promoting ESD, (vi)
promote media campaigns and (vii) undertake pilot activities for ESD activities at the National park and
tourist camps.
*ESD: Education for Sustainable Development
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Impacts and Achievements
Multi-stakeholder dialogues were convened and a National Action Plan on ESD was developed; Gaps
and challenges were clarified through a questionnaire survey; A network of universities and educational
institutions was established; The Handbook for Environmental Auditing was published and Environmental
Management for Enterprises and Business Entities documentation was developed; The Club of
Environmental Journalists was established to promote media coverage and awareness-raising; Reporting
the Environment: A Handbook for Journalists was translated into Mongolian and published; Workshops
were held and educational panels were set up in Khustai and Terelj National parks.
Future Challenges
Further efforts are required to transform policy documents and training materials into concrete activities to
bring about a sustainability-oriented mindset; Knowledge and experience in sustainability issues needs to
be recognized as an asset for those seek employment opportunities; Impacts of ESD on human behaviour
and environmental performance need to be discerned via numerical indicators; Pilot waste-water recycling
and organic fertilising projects need to be further pursued at the National park and campsites.
General Information
Name of the Implementing Organisation:
ECO Asia (Mongolian Environmental Education and Research Institute)
Type of Organisation: NGO/CBO
Contact: T Adyasuren
C.P.O. Box 752, Ulaanbaatar-13, Mongolia
Tel: 976-11-312458 / 976-99192160 Fax: 976-11-312320
E-mail: adyats@yahoo.com Ulaanbaatar / ozoff@magicnet.mn
Project Reviewer (NetRes / Collaborators) that monitors the project:
Masanori Kobayashi, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
E-mail: m-kobayashi@iges.or.jp
Area
Climate Change 3R Biodiversity & Ecosystem Water Capacity Development etc. Others
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