10 July 2017
Community-based learning strengthens bonds across generations, promotes agency and self-reliance, and fosters social cohesion, thus encouraging active citizenship and a sense of ownership of a community’s future.
To stress to policymakers and other stakeholders the wide and far-reaching benefits of community-based learning, particularly in the light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has published a policy brief "Community-based learning for sustainable development".
This policy brief, co-published with the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, advances six principles of action to develop the role of community learning centres (CLCs) as the main delivery mechanism for community-based learning: responding, engaging, enabling, embedding, sustaining and transforming.
Furthermore, to allow CLCs to put these principles into practice in a holistic and integrated manner, the paper proposes four policy recommendations for local and national governments to:
• Provide dedicated resources for community-based learning;
• Create mechanisms for partnerships and networking opportunities;
• Organize ongoing capacity-building to ensure well-qualified and trained staff and volunteers;
• Support learning content development.
Read the policy brief (English)
Permanent link: http://en.unesco.kz/policy-brief-community-based-learning-for-sustainable-development