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First Phase of the Education for Sustainable Development Project Concludes Successfully

Local news, 19.12.2018

Education for Sustainable Development is a concept developed by UNESCO that aims at turning  children and youth into environmentally and socially responsible world  citizens, by raising their understanding about global issues and with a more participatory pedagogical approach. The Government of Mongolia initiated a comprehensive reform process to mainstream Education for Sustainable Development from kindergarten to university and to promote green economy.

The Road Show event of ESD project
The Road Show event of ESD project ©SDC

Quality education with the purpose of empowering young people to address ecological, social, economic and cultural issues is crucial in preparing communities for a sustainable future. To this end, the Education for Sustainable Education Project started in 2015 through a collaboration of the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the Ministry of Education Culture, Science and Sports and the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and was .implemented by . GIZ, the Uppsala University of Sweden and the Swiss Institute for International Cooperation in Education (IZB).

To celebrate the conclusion of the first phase, the project successfully organized a national « Road Show » where the schools that were part to the project could  demonstrate the results of their activities since 2015. The launch took place  in Arkhangai aimag, then events were held in Khentii, Selenge and Bayankhongor aimagswith the participation oforganisations, schools, local authorities and the local community.

Representatives of these four aimags then converged to Ulaanbaatar, where the final Road Show event was held  with the participation of the State Secretary of MET Ts. Tsengel, the Deputy Head of SDC Ilaria Dali, the Director of GIZ Daniel Passon, as well as governors of the aimags, representatives from the schools in the capital where the project had been implemented.

The State Secretary Ts.Tsengel highlighted that the project wasimplemented in six aimags andprioritized  mainstreaming « green” activities in  basic education ; around 3,000 teachers were trained. Ilaria Dali, Deputy Head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, underlined the importance of ESD and its three pillars, the social, economic and environmental ones, “as we all have to take responsibility for our development and to think of what we are leaving behind for the next generations. Development must be sustainable, so that we don’t have only immediate or short term effects, but the positive impact of what we do today must be sustainable, that is to be visible in many years to come”.

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Last update 27.11.2017