strategy
Sharing of environmental education costs by local communities with richer assisting poorer communities
Synonyms:
Shifting education costs to local communities on a means basis Implementation:
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. Agenda 21 recommends promoting conditions where a larger share of the cost is borne by local communities, with rich communities assisting poorer ones. Broader:
Reorienting education towards sustainable developmentTackling poverty through environmental health measuresImproving community capacity for environmental education Facilitates:
Expanding environmental management education and trainingDeveloping broad environmental educationDeveloping local environmental health action plansGiving urban children practical ecological experience Facilitated by:
Supporting debt-for-education swapsSecuring educational funds from private donorsFacilitating low or no-cost use of mass media for education Values:
NonlocalEducationOvereducation Subjects:
Society → CommunitiesSociety → Local
Society → Disadvantaged
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Education → Education
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
