Home Economics Projects 2012/2013
Workshop on Sustainable Development 2013 - Alexandria University, Egypt
Workshop "Education for Sustainable Development – Family" held on May 11th 2013 at the Alexandria University, Egypt, presenting the results about a change project for one year
Submitted by: Associate Prof. Dr. Mona SHARAF ABDELGALIL, Egypt
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"School Catering for Inclusion"
WABE-Centre, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück cooperating with Service Centre for All Day Education, Lower Saxony
Please click here for download the Description of the Project No. 2
"Home Economics Distance Education Programs for Sustainability in National and International Programs"
IFHE, Roxie V. GODFREY, Ed.D.
Please click here for download the Description of the Project No. 22
"Nachhaltiges Waschen, Sustainable Washing and Cleaning"
DHB-Netzwerk Haushalt, OV Erlangen, Germany
Please click here for download the Description of the Project No. 30
"Grass Roots Sustainability through School Gardens"
International Federation for Home Economics - Caryl JOHNSON
Please click here for download the Description of the Project No. 49
"Improving Nutritional Health with School Gardens in Moldova"
International Federation for Home Economics - Joanne PEARSON
Please click here for download the Description of the Project No. 50
Publications & Links
The Sustainability Challenge for Water and Sanitation
Where water and sanitation solutions are in place, structures are failing to guarantee sustainability or equitable access. In areas of vulnerability, disasters, climatic shocks and conflicts exacerbate inequalities, accelerating the trend still further. Development and humanitarian programmes address these issues separately, but fail to create an integrated, sustainable solution.
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Huairou Commission Women, Homes & Community - March 2017
"Rural Women's Empowerment in the sustainable Development Era Priorities, Partnerships, and Policy for transformational Change"
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IWRAW-Asia Pacific - October 2016
"Declaration of the Inaugural Global South Women's Forum on Sutainability"
Sustainable Development with Equality, Dignity and Justice for All
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"Habitat III - Issue Paper on Inclusive Cities - Poor, Gender, Youth, Ageing"
Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016.
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"Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"
United Nations, 2015
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom, it recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
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"Travel, Live and Learn Sustainability: Choose your Own Sustainable Adventure "
This "Good Practice Example" summarises the ESD project "Choose Your Own Sustainability Adventure". All the relevant links to the project can be found in the link below.
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Submitted by: Valentina AVERSANO-DEARBORN, Forum for Sustainable Visions in Action
"Considering Regional and Local Equality Perspectives"
This video was created for the MORE SL and TRANSFORM workshop in Vienna on November 20th 2015 in the context of UNEP's 10YFP Program "Sustainable Lifestyles and Education" (SLE). It aims at summarising the insights of our task force "Framing and Communication of Sustainable Lifestyles" and invites not only participants of the workshop.
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Submitted by: Georgina GUILLEN-HANSON
World Family Summit +9 Berlin Germany, 2 – 5 December 2013
"Families in Balance"
IFHE Member Mona Sharaf ABDELGALIL, Alexandria University, Faculty of Specific Education, Department of Home Economics, Egypt had attended this conference in Berlin. She had presented Home Economics Education for Sustainable Development.
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Phase 4 of E-Book started
Next Call for contributions to:
PHASE 4 of the E-book: "Global Sustainable Development: A challenge for Consumer Citizens"
www.educationforsustainabledevelopment.org
Forward contribution to ebookcontribution@gmail.com
Deadline for receipt of contributions: 1st November 2012.
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Submitted by: Miriam O'DONOGHUE, Chair of Programme Committee Consumers & Sustainable Development
Analysis E-Book Statistics - 1 June 2008 - 24 November 2010:
In the two year period 2008 - 2010 we have had 3,164 visits from 124 countries to the e-book site on "Global Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Consumer Citizens". In addition we have distributed 2,000 CDs worldwide.
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Submitted by: Miriam O'DONOGHUE
IFHE Postcard Home Economics Empowerment
Please click here for download the IFHE Postcard Home Economics Empowerment: Education for Sustainable Lifestyle
Peoples' Sustainability Treaties
Draft for Endoresment at RIO+20
"Peoples' Sustainability Treaty on Consumption and Production: Transforming Livelihoods and Lifestyles for the Wellbeing of All"
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Submitted by: Dr. Sylvia LOREK, Germany
OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 - The Consequences of Inaction
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UNESCO World Conference 2009
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development - Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade
31 March - 2 April 2009 - Bonn. Germany
Please click here for download the "Bonn Declaration"
Publication - OECD Insights 2008
Sustainable Development
Linking Economy, Society, Environment
Tracey STRANGE, Anne BAYLEY
Published by: OECD Publishing
This book takes a careful look at the concept sustainable development: what it means; how it is affected by production, consumption and globalisation; how it can be measured, and what can be done to promote it.
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CCN - Active Methodology Toolkit 2008
Consumer Citizenship Network (CCN)
Education for Sustainable Development
"Images and Objects"
Active Methodology Toolkit
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Press Releases
World Home Economics Day 2012 on March 21
"Home Economics Empowerment: Education for Sustainable Lifestyle"
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