Many young people around the world — especially the disadvantaged — are leaving school without the skills they need to thrive in society and find decent jobs.

As well as thwarting young people’s hopes, these education failures are jeopardizing equitable economic growth and social cohesion, and preventing many countries from reaping the potential benefits of their growing youth populations.

The 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report will examine how skills development programmes can be improved to boost young people’s opportunities for decent jobs and better lives.

The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education documents the devastating effects of armed conflict on education. It examines the widespread human rights abuses that are keeping children out of school.

This workbook was prepared as a start up resource for educators working on environment and sustainablility questions in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The workbook explores creative ways of working with ethics education. Also available in French, Spanish & Italian

This workbook was prepared as a start up resource for educators working on environment and sustainablility questions in the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The workbook explores creative ways of working with ethics education.

Wastewater, training, GPA, water, management, urban
This guide showcases some of UNEP's many programmes and resources that support the important work of environmental education and training. It contains details of courses in the UNEP Environmental Leadership Programme, UNEP networks for environmental training, our commitment to supporting environmental action learning activities that link schools with their communities, training programmes for women as managers of natural resources, and examples of our public education programmes in newspapers and television.