strategy
Improving community capacity for environmental education
Context:
Agenda 21 encourages countries to set up national advisory environmental education coordinating bodies or round tables representative of various environmental, developmental, educational, gender and other interests, including non-governmental organizations, to encourage partnerships, help mobilize resources and provide a source of information and focal point for international ties. These bodies would help mobilize and facilitate different population groups and communities to assess their own needs and to develop the necessary skills to create and implement their own environment and development initiatives.This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Broader:
Using community education structuresReorienting education towards sustainable developmentIncreasing environmental management education capacitiesDeveloping broad environmental education Narrower:
Sharing of environmental education costs by local communities with richer assisting poorer communitiesSupporting efforts of non-formal educators in sustainable development Facilitates:
Expanding environmental management education and trainingGiving urban children practical ecological experienceIncreasing water resource education Facilitated by:
Establishing multisectoral national advisory and coordinating groups on environmental education Subjects:
Society → CommunitiesAmenities → Living conditions
Commerce → Assessment
Education → Education
Environment → Environment
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
