RCE recognition award 2016 has been awarded to 10 projects from RCEs. He gave an overview of RCE-related activities internationally. Regional meetings have been held this year. This is the last of the 4 regional RCE meetings. The AP RCE coordinating committee includes RCE Penang, RCE Greater Western Sydney, RCE Chennai, RCE Iskandar, RCE Tongyeong, RCE Waikato and RCE Yogyakarta. There is a robust RCE portal and Facebook page for communications. Already 1000 followers on Facebook. RCE e-bulletin available monthly, with template for submitting article to bulletin. Shared with ProSPER.Net. He also stated that there are RCE related publications including policy briefs, which network can contribute to. In the ESD program strategic framework, RCEs are central to the implementation strategy. He encouraged all the RCEs to read the roadmap for RCEs, which is a distillation of many meetings and spells out in specific terms what RCEs should be doing. It also answers several questions such as how do we strengthen governance within RCE, how do we develop capacities of multi stakeholders, how do we strengthen the impact of actions related to SD/ ESD, linking with international debates and processes. In the end he also stated that the GAP (Global Action Programme on ESD) and SDGs are central to this roadmap. Progress on the Implementation of GAP on ESD in the Asia- Pacific Region Further, Progress on the Implementation of GAP on ESD in the Asia-Pacific Region was given by - Ms Ushio Miura from UNESCO Bangkok During the session, Ms Ushio Miura addressed the gathering by stating the aim of GAP, which is to generate and scale up action in all levels and areas of education and learning to accelerate progress towards sustainable development. She also mentioned that this program was launched at end of the Decade of ESD. She stated that many achievements and progress have been made during the decade, but a common assessment was that a lot of the actions remained as pilot or innovative practices and there was a need to scale them up to become normal mainstream projects. Hence there was a need for more institutionalization of action. She further stated that there are 5 p riority action areas in GAP, namely: 1. Integrating ESD in education and Sustainable Development policies. 2. Whole school approaches. 3. Strengthening the capacity of educators and trainers. 4. Empowering youth as change agents for SD. 5. Accelerating the search for SD solutions at the local level. She discussed the flagship projects which have been done under the 5 priority areas worldwide. She also stated that UNESCO Bangkok is involved in p romoting community development. New budget cycle beginning for next 2 years and exploring p ossible collaborations for 2018- 2019. Some ideas which she mentioned for projects could be: to integrate learning in the pursuit of Sustainable Development and SDGs. She also mentioned that not so much attention is being given to ESD and hence there is a need to integrate learning in communities' in pursuit of SDGs. Everyone is being told to do something abou t SDGs but not considering integrating learning aspects. Therefore there is a need to make it explicit to come up with a framework to embed learning in sustainable practices. She also posed certain questions which she would like to address in the collaborative projects including- What brings stakeholders together to promote learning as they pursue sustainable development? How can RCEs help to crystallize how we could do this? She further stated that UNESCO Learning Cities Network - could have joint events and dialogue. Learning aspect is strong but needs further work on articulation of Sustainable 5
10th Asia-Pacific RCE Regional Meeting Report
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