Schools for Sustainability

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Morón - Argentina

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
100,000 to 499,999 inhabitants (large intermediate)

4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education which must be free, equitable and of quality and leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and professional skills, to access employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and at least a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.

4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries.

4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States.

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.

13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.

13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities.

J- Frameworks for startup of future regional agenda on population and development

American Convention on Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

Summary

The Municipality of Morón promotes education for sustainability, underscoring that environmental education is not different, isolated, improvised, or temporary; rather, it stems from the current context of environmental crisis. The Schools for Sustainability program seeks to strengthen and improve the environmental projects of each institution and the role of school in the generation and promotion of sustainable practices in the community.

Implementation Date:

Start: 11 / 1 / 2011

End: End: Currently in force

Enviroment - Environmental education
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Climate change is one of the major and most serious issues the world faces today, and mitigation policies are most urgently needed. Local states and grassroots democracies are responsible for these policies to be planned, developed, and implemented in a participatory, educational, equitable, and egalitarian way. Childhood and youth play a key role in the incorporation of an environmental perspective in the communities, and the school is the perfect realm to achieve it.
The goal of this effort is to strengthen and further reflect on environmental perspectives for educational projects by incorporating or expanding sustainable practices in each institution, as well as their role in the generation and promotion of environmental actions in the community. This goal is reflected, on the one hand, through the participants in the project, aiming for them to become agents of change in the community and, as such, to adopt sustainable practices through a critical outlook on daily habits in order to transform them and make a better use of the commons. On the other, by incorporating and interrelating curricular contents with an environmental perspective in the Project of Institutional Education (PEI) of each participant institution.
The areas of environmental policy and education are responsible for the implementation of the program, as well as the Community Management Units (municipal decentralized spaces across the territory of the municipality of Morón). Likewise, the School Council of Morón offers support. Policy is carried out with municipal resources, with additional support offered by agencies such as ProHuerta, of the National Technological Institute (INTA), and the Matanza Riachuelo Watershed Authority (ACUMAR).
This policy is articulated jointly with the School Council of Morón, the education sector, the Ministry of Education inspectors, and the Educational Training, Information and Research Centers (CIIE). Issues related to pedagogical monitoring and advice are addressed jointly with these agencies. Meetings, courses, and all activities related to implemented policies are also organized jointly. Oher supporting agencies include the Environmental Education Network, a space coordinated by the INTA, ACUMAR’s program Schools of the Watershed, environmental organizations, parents’ auxiliaries, and the students’ center.
The legal framework supporting this policy is the Environmental Education Act, of national application, enforced through the National Strategy of Comprehensive Environmental Education, which allows for its territorialization across the national level and the mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is also based on Municipal Order No. 11165/08 on urban forestry. This is used as information mechanism and educational content.
Children and teenagers
Education and training
Creation of entity/plan/programme
This policy sets forth a series of actions that organize and guide its development. The initial stage involves institutional environmentalization, followed by a participatory diagnostic, the planning of an environmental institutional project, and the progress indicators related to the proposed axes with the purpose of achieving a continued public recognition of the institution and its adherence to the Environmental Education Network. It should be noted that this process has no established end date. This is why the environmental education team guides and trains institutions throughout its development. This policy is linked with other policies and municipal spaces for environmental education (such as the Urban Agroecological Space and the Urban Natural Reserve in Morón). Moreover, the design and distribution of specific educational material is carried out to strengthen institutional action. Among the monitoring activities in place, specific training is offered by considering a series of indicators that allow to guide the project and further reinforce these efforts in the development of sustainable practices.
The Schools for Sustainability were designed ten years ago, and their sustenance and continuous adaptation to new needs have become their stronger pillars. Furthermore, citizen participation throughout each stage is the central and fundamental tenet for the project’s development, along with its continuous capacity to adapt. These features grant it the innovative element that allow this public policy to have a significant circulation among the education community.
Among civil society organizations, this policy is supported by the Environmental Educators Network (Western Node), which groups different social organizations within a single space. Simultaneously, participation of governments, educational institutions, and civil society is underscored. In this sense, the active participation within this network of a referent of each of the institutions encompassed by this policy is encouraged.
Social participation mechanisms related to this policy include all content of educational institutions, such as parents’ associations, parents’ auxiliaries, students’ centers, etc. Moreover, the educational work project is devised and developed taking into consideration both the internal and the external education community. Surveys are conducted to verify territorial needs and proposals from the different institutional spaces that make up this public policy (community surrounding educational institutions, Community Management Units, School Board, etc.). Another notable social participation instance can be found in the meetings and activities of the Environmental Education Network.
Budget is guaranteed by the local government.
When institutions join public policy-making, they are granted a series of files to create the necessary progress reports and evaluate the project’s development. Indicators include not only responsible consumption and rational use of goods and services but also a healthy diet, health, and the environment. This reveals that the policy’s interest is not “reduced” to what is commonly called “environmental issues,” but that it also considers those elements that make life complete and transversal. In addition, it offers public recognition to those institutions that are able to account for their achievements as a result of the institutional environmental project and, hence, their commitment to this issue.
Local goverment
The environmental education team guides and offers permanent assistance to institutions taking part in this policy. To achieve this, a daily record of the following indicators is carried out throughout the school year: - WASTE (kilos of weekly waste, percentage of homes within the education community that sort out waste, amount of recyclables, kilos of compost material). - RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION (kilowatts, liters of water, and cubic meters of gas consumed each month). - URBAN BIODIVERSITY (total number of plant species, cubic meters of green areas). - HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (percentage of children with respiratory diseases, bacteriological quality of water, decibels in school recesses, percentage of smoke-free settings). - HEALTHY DIET (percentage of healthy foods offered by the cafeteria and consumed at the cafeteria). - OTHER (percentage of bicycle, car, and public transportation use; percentage of food bought at small neighborhood shops of the total amount of monthly family shopping; and number of organizations involved, among others). The main purpose of this surveying method is for institutions to be able to quantify the results of their interventions.
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Instrumentos

4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education which must be free, equitable and of quality and leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and professional skills, to access employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and at least a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.

4.b By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries.

4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States.

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.

13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.

13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities.

J- Frameworks for startup of future regional agenda on population and development
American Convention on Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

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Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
100,000 to 499,999 inhabitants (large intermediate)

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