en vironm ent Facility‟ (GEF) „Sm all Gran ts Program m e‟ (SGP) of th e UNDP has been implementing over 60 projects throughout country and several other programmes for various stakeholders. Details of these projects are available on www.sgpindia.org. Hand Print (www.handprint.in) is the concept developed by CEE in 2007 and it has become popular worldwide and adopted by several agencies. Hand Print is the positive action that supports sustainability. Dr Gangwar, RCE Srinagar mentioned that the book „Param p ara‟ published by CEE for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India is a rich source abou t In d ia‟s trad ition s th at are en vironm en t friendly and promote sustainability. This book can be accessed online at www.ceeindia.org. Since RCE Iskandar has been engaged in Low Carbon Economy related initiatives hence agreed to lead the initiatives started by the RCEs. It was informed to all the participants that UNESCO has several resource materials for youth, which could be easily accessed on the UNESCO website. It was further stated that UNESCO Bangkok and other UNESCO Offices, bring out e-bulletins which can be subscribed to free of cost. Also, UNESCO in collaboration with TERI New Delhi (RCE Delhi) has conducted programmes such as ESD Leadership training in February 2017 and Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Cities in November 2017 in New Delhi. The resource material from these programmes can be useful for youth and can be obtained from the organizers. Further it was discussed that each RCE has to nominate at least one youth focal point. The youth focal point will develop youth engagement programmes and coordinate youth activities for his/ her RCE and coordinate with the rest of the RCEs in the Asia Pacific region and with the Global RCE community as well. Further RCE Tongyeong, Republic of Korea apprised everyone about the youth network „Brid ge to Th e World (BTW) and an international youth camp organized by them every year in Tongyeong. They invite applications from RCEs, make a merit based selection, and then invite selected youth, one from each RCE, to Tongyeong for one week long youth camp. RCE Tongyeong/ Sejahtera Centre fully support the participants financially. The group was apprised that RCE Trivandrum, India conducted the „Child ren Agricu ltu re- Science Congress where children displayed an d demonstrated the organic food that was grown in their school campuses. As a result of this initiative, children have now started growing organic foods in their schools. Considering the pesticides being used for growing food items and food getting heavily contaminated it was suggested that a new group should be initiated focused at growing and promoting organic food, RCE Trivandrum have taken a lead to coordinate with this group. 9
10th Asia-Pacific RCE Regional Meeting Report
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