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Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme kicks off in Malawi
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UNESCO, UNICEF Hosted Eastern and Southern Africa sub-Regional Consultation to the Global Education Meeting 2024
22 countries attended the Nairobi consultation to refine the Fortaleza Declaration identify strategies for implementing and accelerating SDG4 and transform education
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Weaving Indigenous and local knowledge in the scoping process of the National Ecosystem Assessment of Malawi
The Malawi National Ecosystem Assessment initiated in 2020 acknowledges that Indigenous and local knowledge systems provide valid and useful knowledge to enrich the assessment process and outputs As such Indigenous and local knowledge holders have been widely consulted and engaged in the scoping stage of the assessment process
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Teachers in Malawi say a comprehensive teacher policy is critical
Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS)
Africa
The African region estimated to contain a third of the worlds languages is a priority for UNESCO and its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems LINKS programme UNESCO works with African Indigenous Peoples and local communities in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation climate change adaptation disaster risk reduction and traditional knowledge language and culture safeguarding
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Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future
For a subSaharan Africa where all adolescents and young people attain positive health education and gender equality outcomes
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The Baobab newsletter: October - December 2024 edition
UNESCO ROSA newsletter Issue 11
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UNESCO and GR? formalize cooperation on fostering ecosystem restoration in Africa
UNESCO and GR? have signed a partnership agreement to reinforce the capacity for ecosystem restoration in Africa
Early childhood care and education
The Roger Federer Foundation's School Readiness Initiative and Capacity Building for Caregivers
Executive Summary, The Roger Federer Foundation RFF has been actively working in Malawi promoting access to quality early childhood development services in community based childcare centres CBCCs since 2011 The Foundation School Readiness Initiative aims to enhance preparedness of young learners to have a good start into formal education in a systemic manner due to a smoother transition into primary school and making the schools ready to accommodate children using innovative approaches by making all relevant stakeholders accountable and use digital and selfguided learning tools is not only very relevant and timely in MalawiConsidering the capacity gap of caregivers and the urgency for basic training in December 2021 a special intervention on invitation of the Ministry of Gender was developed to train 3000 mentors across the country who should each facilitate training of at least two caregivers from three CBCCs using the KnowHow a selfguided course in school readiness
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