UNESCO MGIEP's Annual Report 2019
2019 was a critical year for the Institute - with various products rolling out to pilot and implementation stage. Read the Institute's Mission-based Annual Report on the impact the Institute made during the year, as it works towards achieving the UN SDG 4, Target 7.
2019 was a critical year for the Institute - with various products rolling out to pilot and implementation stage. Read the Institute's Mission-based Annual Report on the impact the Institute made during the year, as it works towards achieving the UN SDG 4, Target 7.
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ANNUAL REPORT <strong>2019</strong><br />
KEY INITIATIVES<br />
& OUTPUTS<br />
• In <strong>2019</strong>, the YESPeace network<br />
(focused on building partnerships<br />
to equip youth with SEL skills<br />
through campaigns, policy dialogues<br />
and capacity-building dialogues),<br />
developed a comprehensive<br />
online SEL course for youth. The<br />
Institute entered into a partnership<br />
agreement with the Life University<br />
Center for Compassion, Integrity<br />
and Secular Ethics (USA) to adapt<br />
the Compassionate Integrity Training<br />
(CIT) course for FramerSpace. A<br />
training of trainers was conducted<br />
through a 3-day workshop for 60<br />
youth organisation representatives<br />
from 27 countries on CIT on Social<br />
and Emotional skills.<br />
• The Institute launched the<br />
#KindnessMatters global campaign<br />
that aims to mobilise young<br />
people to carry out transformative<br />
acts of kindness to tackle the SDGs<br />
and create a positive culture of<br />
kindness. In <strong>2019</strong>, more than 7,300<br />
stories from 120+ countries were<br />
collected of youth undertaking<br />
courageous and transformative acts<br />
of kindness to achieve the SDGs<br />
• In partnership with O.P.<br />
Jindal and Darshan Samiti, the<br />
first World Youth Conference<br />
on Kindness for the SDGs was<br />
organised in New Delhi, India, on the<br />
theme of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam:<br />
Gandhi for the Contemporary World’.<br />
The Conference celebrated the 150 th<br />
birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi<br />
and was held from August 20 – 23,<br />
<strong>2019</strong>, seeing over 1,000 youth in<br />
attendance.<br />
• The #YouthWagingPeace project<br />
aims to build capacities of youth<br />
(particularly in the Asia-Pacific region)<br />
to implement Prevention of Violent<br />
Extremism through education (PVE-E)<br />
activities in their respective countries.<br />
Through the #YouthWagingPeace<br />
project, in <strong>2019</strong>, 200+ youth leaders<br />
were trained from 35+ countries.<br />
The Whole Community Approach to<br />
PVE-E was implemented in Canada<br />
through The Centre for Prevention of<br />
Radicalization Leading to Violence<br />
(CPRLV); Sri Lanka (with Sri Lanka<br />
Unites NGO); India (youth-led); and<br />
Jordan/MENA Region (ActionAid<br />
Arab Region).<br />
The Institute launched the<br />
#KindnessMatters global<br />
campaign that aims to mobilise<br />
young people to carry out<br />
transformative acts of kindness<br />
to tackle the SDGs and create<br />
a positive culture of kindness.<br />
In <strong>2019</strong>, more than 7,300 stories<br />
from 120+ countries were<br />
collected of youth undertaking<br />
courageous and transformative<br />
acts of kindness to achieve the<br />
SDGs.
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