Diapositiva 1

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy
Sustainable Development The Role of Education and
Training Regional Workshop Przno, Montenegro,
1-2 October 2007 Panel Education for
Sustainable Development from Strategy to
Implementation The UNECE Strategy for
Education for Sustainable Development Paolo
Soprano Ministry for the Environment, Land and
Sea of Italy
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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy
Education for Sustainable Development from
Strategy to Implementation UNECE Strategy
for Education for Sustainable Development Adopted
in Vilnius, March 2005
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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Steps forward
• The World Summit on Sustainable Development
  (Johannesburg, 2002)
• The Fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment for
  Europe" (Kiev, 2003)
• The High-level Meeting of Environment and
  Education Ministers (Vilnius, 17-18 March 2005)

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• The UNECE Strategy for ESD
• Developed through participatory process involving
  governments and various stakeholders
• Is meant to serve as a flexible framework
  implementation can be adapted to each countrys
  priorities, specific needs and circumstances
• Aims at encouraging countries to incorporate ESD
  into their formal education systems, and in
  non-formal and informal education
• Suggests establishing a partnership mechanism
  between different ministries and agencies to
  coordinate the implementation

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Objectives of the Strategy
• Ensure that policy, regulatory and operational
  frameworks support ESD
• Promote SD through formal, non-formal and
  informal learning
• Develop the competence within the education
  sector to engage in ESD
• Ensure that adequate tools and materials for ESD
  are accessible
• Promote research on and development of ESD
• Strengthen cooperation on ESD at all levels
  within the UNECE region

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Some challenges
• Absence of an agreed ESD definition
• Confusion in understanding of EE and ESD
• Inflexibility of education systems
• ESD not included in national legislation in many
  countries
• Institutional and policy frameworks not
  supportive to ESD in most of the countries

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Expert Group on indicators for education for
• Sustainable development
• Mandate by the Vilnius high level Meeting
• To develop indicators to measure the
  effectiveness of the implementation of the UNECE
  Strategy for ESD

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Expert Group on indicators for education for
• Sustainable development
• The Group of Experts
• Chair The Netherlands
• Governmental Experts Armenia, Austria, Canada,
  France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, The
  Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden
  and United Kingdom
• Stakeholders UNESCO, the Intergovernmental
  Central Asia Working Group on EE and ESD, ENSI
  and the European ECO-Forum

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Expert Group on indicators for education for
• Sustainable development
• Scope indicators should be determined by the
  objectives of the Strategy
• Key challenge to ensure that indicators address
• the process of implementation
• the effectiveness of the implementation

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Expert Group on indicators for education for
• Sustainable development
• Key issues
• Purpose not to compare but to learn and
  develop
• A new data collection policy
• Concept of use of indicators
• Methodology the tailor-made approach
• Format yes/no part and a descriptive part

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Expert Group on indicators for education for
• Sustainable development
• Outcomes
• 18 indicators with 48 sub-indicators
• 45 qualitative sub-indicators and 8 quantitative,
  of which 5 are of dual nature
• Template for reporting
• Endorsement of indicators and the reporting format

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• Implementation of the Strategy
• Phase I (up to 2007) take stock of existing
  activities and define priorities for further
  action required to implement the Strategy
• Phase II (up to 2010) review progress made in
  the implementation of the national/State
  strategies and revise, if necessary
• Phase III (up to 2015) considerable progress
  achieved in implementing the Strategy.

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• The process from Kiev to Belgrade
• Establishment of the UNECE Steering Committee on
  ESD to oversee the implementation of the Strategy
  (1st meeting, 14-15 December, 2005)
• Adoption of the Work Plan, 2005-2007 for the
  implementation of the Strategy (at the 1st
  meeting of the Steering Committee)

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• The process from Kiev to Belgrade
• Activities to facilitate the implementation
  process
• Organized thematic and sub-regional workshops
  (http//www.unece.org/env/esd/events.htm and
  http//www.unece.org/env/esd/WorkshSEE.htm)
• Published a Compilation of Good Practices in
  Education for Sustainable Development
  (http//www.unece.org/env/esd/GoodPractices/index.
  html)
• Established a Reporting Mechanism and Indicators
  to assess the implementation (http//www.unece.org
  /env/esd/Implementation.htm)

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy

• The process from Kiev to Belgrade
• Future steps
• First review of the progress in implementation by
  the Ministers of Environment and Education
  Sixth Ministerial Conference Environment for
  Europe (Belgrade, 10-12 October 2007)
• Report Learning from each other achievements,
  challenges and the way forward and its
  conclusions

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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy
Sixth Ministerial Conference "Environment for
Europe" (Belgrade, 10-12 October 2007) ? Special
Joint Session of Environment and Education
Ministers ? Progress made and challenges
encountered in the implementation ? A joint
statement ? Side-event on Education in
addressing energy for sustainable production and
consumption
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Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea of Italy
ESD would promote a shift in people's mindsets
and in so doing enable us to make this world
safer, healthier and more prosperous THANK
YOU! Paolo Soprano Director Ministry for the
Environment, Land and Sea of Italy soprano.paolo_at_m
inambiente.it