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Current Situation, Tasks, and Priorities for ESD - CEE’s Experiences. Presentation by Madhavi Joshi at APCEIU ESD Workshop Seoul, South Korea, November 22, 2004. Challenges to Sustainable Development. Scope and diversity Poverty Population pressure
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Current Situation, Tasks, and Priorities for ESD - CEE’s Experiences Presentation by Madhavi Joshi at APCEIU ESD Workshop Seoul, South Korea, November 22, 2004
Challenges to Sustainable Development • Scope and diversity • Poverty • Population pressure • Depletion and degradation of natural resources • Illiteracy and access to quality education especially for the poor and marginalised • Status of women • Policy and institutional failures • Inadequate awareness and initiatives among national governments, civil society, corporate sector, academia, media, regional initiatives • Lack of lateral integration • Political will • Issues related to overseas development assistance, technology cooperation and multilateral systems
CEE and ESD • CEE - Government recognition of education as major input to change • CEE’s programmes • aimed at Development and Sustainable development needs • SD means environmentally aware citizens: School and formal education programmes, a cornerstone • Simultaneously rate of degradation of environment and loss of biodiversity calls for immediate measures • Need to show alternatives to have development consistent with environment
Guiding Principles From its inception, CEE’s activities have been rooted in and guided by certain basic strategies for maximization of their quality, effectiveness and impact. These include….
Education and Capacity Building • Greening School Education: Software, hardware – Anandshala; NGC • Curricular Intervention and Training: EESS and Samvardhan • Developing Supporting Materials: Enviroscope, EOSE • Capacity Building Institutions: RHEIs, DIETS; Text book boards
Education and Capacity Building • Community Awareness: Samvardhan, Jalsankalp; Sankalp; AmdaVadmA • Developing EE Cadre: TEE; CCEE, SASEANEE • Facilitating Youth participation in SD: SAYEN; CYWEN • Training: TALEEM; Internships
Impact on Policy • Decentralised Participatory Process: Sankalp, Jalsankalp, Halvad • Inputs into Policy Frameworks: JFM, NBSAP, BMWM, NCERT, Planning Commission • Eco-industrial Networking: Naroda CETP; Tirupur • Orientation to Policy Makers: IFS; Judiciary • Piloting Policy Implementation: Jalsankalp
Demonstration and Field Trials • Livelihood Security: Halvad; Coorg; Jasdan; APDPIP • Natural Resource Management - Sustainable Agriculture, Livestock management: Halvad; Coorg; Samvardhan, Sankalp, Jasdan • Infrastructure – Water and sanitation, EQ and cyclone safe housing : Sankalp, Jalsankalp, Halvad
Demonstration and Field trials • Fragile Eco-system: Coorg; Kachchh; Himalaya; Thar • Managing wastes: Industry, SWM, BMW : Naroda, Tirupur, Bangalore • Supporting innovations and local interventions: SGP; EOSE
Moving ahead • Samvaad: A rural dialogue with communities from 250 villages – CEE and partners • ESF: Sharing experiences and strategies for ESD with international partners