Follow-Up to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) : Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development

A/RES/69/211View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19 Sustainable development, published in 2015.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Development Education International Decades Programme Implementation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, as a follow-up to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development after 2014, as endorsed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirty-seventh session and transmitted by the Secretary-General;³

³See A/69/76.

Invites Governments to take steps to implement the Global Action Programme;

Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as the lead agency for education for sustainable development, to continue to provide coordination for the implementation of the Global Action Programme, in cooperation with Governments, United Nations organizations, funds and programmes, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders;

Requests the Secretary-General to include the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development in the review of the implementation of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, for submission to the General Assembly at its seventieth session.

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