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Sustainability Starts with Teachers Policy Dialogue features at EEASA Conference 2022 in Namibia.
The 40th Conference for the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EESA), held at the University of Namibia from 23rd to 25th August 2022, featured a very esteemed activity, Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) policy dialogue. SST is a capacity...
Zambia embarks in drafting a National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development
Zambia is the first of eleven SADC countries to start drafting a national Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy. Elements of this strategy were discussed during a policy dialogue in Lusaka from 25-26 July as a follow up to the adoption of the SADC ESD...
Malawi moves closer to a National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development
Malawi started drafting her own national Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy in a policy dialogue in Lilongwe from 2 to 3 August 2022. Malawi is the second country after Zambia to embark on such a process. This is a follow up to the adoption of the...
Regional Education for Sustainable Development Strategic Framework approved
SADC Ministers approved the Regional Strategic Framework on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on 17 June 2022 in Lilongwe, Malawi. The framework was highly appreciated by the Joint Meeting of SADC Ministers of Education and Training and Science, Technology...
Towards ESD for 2030: SADC Drafts an ESD Strategy
It was an exciting moment in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa when delegates from 11 SADC countries (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) came together. When...
Action for ESD 2030: Angola and Mozambique Join Sustainability Starts with Teachers Programme
When there is a common goal, geographical locations do not matter. Angola and Mozambique, though linguistically alike, are geographically disperse. Nonetheless, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has posed itself as a common goal for the two countries...
A Sua Vez: Angola and Mozambique kickstart the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Having running for three years with Anglophone Southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Eswatini), Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme now turns to Lusophone Southern Africa with...
SADC ESD framework on the horizon
Eleven SADC countries (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) will attend the UNESCO-SADC Policy Dialogue on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in...
First SST Course Completion Certificates Awarded!!
Dean of Education at Rhodes University, Professor Eureta Rosenberg, who started ESD courses in SADC in 1995, congratulates the 2021 Certificate awardees and all institutions involved in the SST Virtual Graduation Ceremony! By Heila Lotz-Sisitka Late October 2021 was...
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Sustainability Starts with Teachers 2021: Off to a good start with record numbers!
Sustainability Starts with Teachers 2021: Off to a good start with record numbers! Written by Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Charles Chikunda A record number of 300 participants have registered for the online 2021 Sustainability Starts with Teachers Course, as the initiative...
Eswatini joins the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Eswatini became the ninth country to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme. A virtual workshop held from 4 - 5 May 2021 kick-started the implementation of the programme in the country. Over 55 Teacher Educators, Technical Vocational Education,...
Tanzania embarks on the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Tanzania is the eighth country to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme. A virtual workshop held on 27 and 28 April 2021 kick-started the implementation of the programme in Tanzania. Over 50 Teacher Educators, Technical Vocational Education, and...
Eswatini geared up to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Eswatini will become the ninth country in Southern Africa to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme, with an inaugural workshop to be held from 4 to 5 May 2021. With funding from SIDA, the programme responds to the fact that teacher education needs to...
Mwekera Beekeeping Forum – Ruth Mulenga, Edgar Bowa, Musunke Kanyembo Chisenga, Zambia Forestry College
The Mwekera National Forest reserve was strategically designed to be a buffer for the Kafue River owing to the numerous streams found in the forest area. However, the forest is under extreme pressure from human activities including illegal settlement, charcoal...