Tag: Sustainable Development Goals

Japan’s commitment to help PHL achieve dev’t goals highlighted in BSP-GRIPS forum in Manila

  (Eagle News) – The Indo-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia, will continue to be very important for Japan which aims to help countries in the region to achieve sustainable development. And the Philippines is one of the important countries for Japan as it continues to provide development funds and opportunities for policy research that will help the country. This was highlighted during the academic conference held by Japan government’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies […]

Exclusive interview: More holistic approach to education seen in new UNESCO approach to achieve dev’t goals

Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s Alma Angeles, together with Robert Capistrano and Caesar Vallejos interviewed officials of UNESCO in its headquarters in Paris, France where Alexander Leicht, chief of the Section of Education for Sustainable Development of UNESCO, explained how UNESCO changed its approach to education, incorporating even technical and vocational component, to achieve sustainable development goals. “The first thing that’s important to  note is that we’re working now on a more holistic approach to education,” Leicht […]

New UN goals must help hundreds of millions of children who can’t read, write

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (PNA/Xinhua) — With more than 200 million school-aged children unable to read and write, the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of UNICEF, said Monday. “There are 250 million children around the world of fourth and fifth grade age who can not read and write or do their numbers,” Anthony Lake told reporters here. The new SDGs — a set of […]