Dr.

Paul OFEI-MANU

The Southeast Asia Reporting and Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Sustainable Development was jointly organised by UNU-IAS, IGES, and UNESCO. The workshop was held on the 23-24 April 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. The concept for the workshop is as follows: The United Nations University Institute of Advanced...

These are Proceedings from the Northeast Asia Reporting and Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Sustainable Development which was jointly organised by UNU-IAS and IGES and held on 20 February 2012 at the UNU-IAS office in Yokohama, Japan. The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and...

As the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) nears its end in 2014, the impact of education in attaining a more sustainable future and the scale of ESD’s implementation is a key issue. The challenge now is to measure the extent to which ESD has been implemented and to identify methods to further mainstream these important...

This paper attempts a brief ‘update’ on the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) and discusses particularly RCE Greater Sendai in light of its relevance to the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014) strategies set for the second phase to achieve the DESD goals in the region. The discussion focuses on capacity building...

This case study on ESD and natural resource utilisation offers a good example of multi-stakeholder social learning for regional sustainable development based on partnerships between environmentalists and farmers. A citizen's movement to conserve a wetland evolved into a participatory programme for engaging with the community for the preservation of...