Publications

Education is a basic human right and a global public good with the power to transform individual lives, communities and the planet for the better over generations. As the lead agency for education within the United Nations, UNESCO provides global and...

The UNESCO Commission on the Futures of Education noted in their 2021 report, Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education, that human societies and the planet face urgent and difficult challenges in the coming decades. The...

The National SDG 4 Midterm Review Guidelines: Asia and the Pacific document guides national authorities and SDG 4 stakeholders to organize and conduct their national SDG 4 Midterm Review. This Review will document progress achieved towards the SDG 4...

A new social contract for education in the Asia-Pacific region paves the way for building fairer and strengthened education systems in the post-COVID-19 era. It will repair inequalities, while transforming the future, rebuild relationships with each other...

Adolescence, the transitionary period between childhood and adulthood, marks a critical period of growth and development. Substantial physical, social and cognitive changes occur and ‘interact with each other and with the environment to shape pathways to...

The UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok), in partnership with the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) and the Ministry of Education of Thailand, will...

In preparation for APREMC-II, a series of four sub-regional consultations were organized across the Asia-Pacific region in (i) Central Asia, (ii) East Asia and South-East Asia, (iii) South and West Asia, and (iv) the Pacific. The objective is to identify...

This background paper outlines the scale and urgency of financing education for SDG4 in the post-COVID Asia-Pacific region. The paper focuses primarily on the public financing of education and it directly addresses three main questions: (i) What are the...

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 aims to ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education”, and the Asia-Pacific region has made significant progress in increasing both access to, and the quality of, education. However, at the mid-point to the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to education globally, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. There has been a severe negative impact on education delivery, learning outcomes, student engagement and their health and well-being...