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The UN DESD has been completed. These pages are being maintained for archival purposes only. However, GDRC continues to work on the themes related to education for sustainable development within the post-2015 agenda and related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Please see:
•  UNESCO's final report on the UN DESD
•  GDRC's Dashboard on the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development UN DESD

In 2002, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 57/254 to designate the decade 2005-2015 as the 'United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development' (UN-DESD).

GDRC, the Global Development Research Center, endorses and supports global initiatives to activate the decade of 2005 - 2015 as the 'UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development'.

These pages have been set up to keep GDRC visitors updated on the UN-DESD initiative, and the various activities currently underway during the Decade.

GDRC's work on the key themes of UN-DESD

Did you Know? September 8th is World Literacy Day October 5th is World Teachers Day

• Introduction: Education for Sustainable Development

• Snippet: Goals of the UN DESD
• Snippet: Logo of the UN DESD

• Background: Final Report of the Tbilisi Conference, 1977. Also see Tbilisi+30
• Background: Agenda 21, Chapter 36
• Background: WSSD Plan of Implementation
• Background: Dakar Framework on Environmental Education

• Impetus: UN Resolution on DESD 2005-2015
• Impetus: Framework for the International Implementation Scheme
• Impetus: International Days and Observances

• Features: Key Education Action Areas and Themes
• Features: Consultative Processes for the UN-DESD
• Features: We have WEHAB

• Resources: Millenium Development Goals
• Resources: Global Partnership for Education
• Resources: UN Division for Sustainable Development
• Resources: United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organization
• Resources: United Nations Environment Programme
• Resources: Online Resources on EfSD
• Resources: Learning for Sustainability