Dr.

Paul OFEI-MANU

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is an increasingly important issue on the global agenda with great effort being made through policy and science to minimize the impacts of disasters on humans and the environment. The paper discusses some components of capacity assessment that are relevant to strengthening DRR capacity and reference is made to the...

Enhancing quality should now be the foremost priority for educational development, and this policy brief presents an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Learning Performance Framework (LPF) to address both learning processes and educational contents. The LPF provides a roadmap for how stronger ESD can promote greater educational quality...

Remarks: 6th RCE Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting. Kitakyushu, Japan 20-22 October 2013.

This issue brief argues that an ambitious goal on education will be essential to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and should address not only the need for universal education, but also substantially aim to improve overall efficacy of education through a qualitative turn in framing education to provide sustainable well-being...

Presented at Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation to Support Planning for an ESD Programme Framework to follow the UN DESD in 2014, 16-17 May 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand

The Executive Summary of Research on Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region presents an overview of the research, findings and recommendations from a collaborative research project that was initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Institute for...

This report was developed as part of a series of three research publications on the research project led by UNU-IAS and IGES on monitoring and evaluation of education for sustainable development, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This report specifically focuses on the development of an appropriate framework for structuring the approach on...

This commentary discusses education for sustainable development (ESD) in relation to the state of the planet and a number of immediate challenges that are confronting its successful implementation during the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development slated to come to an end in 2014. They are the current economic crisis and its effect on...