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  • Leading Organization:
    UNICEF
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, UNFCCC
    Summary:

    The resource pack takes a child-centered, skills-based approach to empowered learning and is being designed to support the equitable involvement and engagement of children of both genders. It aims to increase children’s understanding of the interdependent relationship between the environment and their life, community and country. The resource is disaggregated by four climatic zones (highland/mountain; flood plains and small island developing states (SIDS); rainforest; and dryland/desert) and is designed to address community-level vulnerabilities to chronic and sudden impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. It includes formal and non-formal activities and resources for policymakers, school administrators, teachers and youth facilitators and is unique in that it is designed to integrate practical guidelines for ‘facilities-based solutions’ such as renewable energy, school gardens, tree planting and rainwater harvesting, with a participatory, child-centred skills-based curriculum.

    _Source: Climate change, children and education for sustainable development: A child-friendly schools approach to adaptation and risk reduction, UNICEF Education Section, NY, June 24, 2010._

    Project Components:

    Today, more than ever before, children are faced with increasing and chronic degradation of natural resources, greater prevalence and severity of natural disasters, and the growing necessity for forced migration. The main purpose of the Environmental Education Resource Pack (EERP) is to provide a tool which will support countries in strengthening children’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and ability to adapt to a changing physical environment, while providing a mechanism to promote and support the use of facilities-based environmental solutions.

    Expected Outputs:

    * Step up natural disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness and response education in light of increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.
    * Support governments, communities and schools to develop capacity to promote environmentally sensible and sustainable solutions which will improve learning environments for children while taking the ownership of maintaining the good health of fresh water resources and associated ecosystems, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and restoring local environmental conditions.
    * Integrate facilities-based environmental solutions with a child-centred, gender responsive, skills-based curriculum employing participatory tools and community interventions to strengthen linkages and empower learners.
    * Ensure that girls’ and boys’ rights, needs and capacities are central to all adaptation and risk reduction policy frameworks and action protocols.

    Contacts:

    Donna Goodman
    dgoodman@unicef.org

    Project Status:
    On-going.
    Project Details
    Cofinancing Total:
    -
    Resources:
    Manual: Child Friendly Schools
    Climate Change and Children
    Child Friendly School Policy
    UNGEI: Climate change, children and education for sustainable development: A child-friendly schools approach to adaptation and risk reduction
    File(s):
    Climate change, children and education for sustainable development- A child-friendly schools approach to adaptation and risk reduction_UNICEF.pdf
    Environmental Education Resource Pack for Child-friendly Schools Presentation_Donna Goodman.ppt
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