Pacific UNDESD Implementation Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand
29-30 November 2007
As a follow-up event to the presentation of the Pacific ESD Action Plan at the Pacific Forum of Education Ministers Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand in November 2007, the UNESCO National Commission (New Zealand), and PACE-SD/USP, co-hosted the Pacific UNDESD Implementation workshop.
The major objective of the workshop - funded by the UNESCO Participation Programme, New Zealand UNESCO National Commission and the Ministry of Education, New Zealand - was to develop four to five regional ESD project proposals for the Pacific implementation of ESD in 2008-2009.
The event enabled several key messages to be emphasized to help carry ESD forward. These include: 1) ESD should be strategized through mainstreaming into existing institutional processes and activities; and 2) a need exists to develop a process for identifying and capturing "non-ESD" branded activities in order to build on lessons learned through ongoing activities which are already stimulating change through education.