Review of the 13th Asia-Pacific RCE Regional Meeting Dr. Chinara Sadykova (RCE Kyrgyzstan) 14th Asia-Pacific Regional RCE Meeting Session 1, 19 July, 2022

1. The 14th Asia-Pacific RCE Meeting 19-21 July 2022 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, Hosted by RCE Greater Gombak
“Empowering Local Wisdom for Education for Sustainable
Development”

2. The Regional Meeting was held as as series of four webinars that were held
on 10th, 24th September and 8th, 22nd October 2020 at the AKSU Faculty of
Geography, Ecology and Tourism.
13 AP RCE meeting part 1, “Building capacity for sustainability”
hosted by RCE Kyrgyzstan 2021/2022

4. Thematic sessions:
1st Session: Role of ESD during COVID-19 pandemic.
2nd Session: Achievements and Collaborative Initiatives of RCEs of
Asia-Pacific region in Response to COVID-19.
3rd Session: ESD as Learning and Empowerment – Revisiting the AP
RCEs' Regional Action Plans.
4th Session: Discussion on Emerging Asia Pacific RCEs' Collaborative
Initiatives.

6. RCE’s shared its Action Plans, identified similarities and common challenges,
and revisited and updated the regional-level Action Plans that have evolved
during recent years.
There were two sectoral discussions held in sequence, namely (1) Higher
Education & Community Engagement; and (2) Schools and Youth &
Community Engagement.
RCEs discussed possible collaborative projects. Two thematic groups
discussed ‘Circular Economy, New Livelihood Opportunities’ and ‘Climate
Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Biodiversity Conservation and Wellbeing.

7. Results of
discussions:
AP RCE members identified and suggested themes for collaborative
projects that could be developed:
- Governance and Policy, Sustainable agriculture;
- Green campus/Sustainable environment, Indigenous and local
communities Mangroves, Water, Youth;
- Disaster Risk Reduction Preparedness;
Convenors of each theme developed one-pagers including action
plans and expected outputs for further follow-up.

8. RCEs Quantity
- 6
Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO 1
Asia-Pacific RCEs 1
1 RCE East Kalimantan 2
2 RCE Greater Sendai 3
3 RCE Bohol 1
4 RCE CEBU 3
5 RCE Chandigarh 1
6 RCE DELHI 1
7 RCE Dobong-Gu 4
8 RCE Global Service Centre 1
9 RCE Greater Dhaka 1
10 RCE Greater Gombak 6
11 RCE Greater Phnom Penh 3
12 RCE Greater Western Sydney 2
13 RCE Hangzhou 2
14 RCE Hyogo-Kobe 1
15 RCE JAMMU, India 2
16 RCE KITAKYUSHU 1
17 RCE KUCHING 6
18 RCE- Northern Mindanao 2
19 RCE Okayama 1
20 RCE Omuta 1
21 RCE Penang 1
22 RCE Salisbury 1
23 RCE Southern Vietnam 1
24 RCE Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2
25 RCE Thiruvananthapuram 1
26 RCE Tongyeong 3
27 RCE Saskatchewan 1
13 AP RCE meeting participants

9. On-line 13 AP RCE meeting part 2 held on 5 October 2021. The theme:
“SDGs/ESD for 2030, and local actions during COVID-19 Pandemic”.
AP RCEs shared good ESD practices, successful activities, teaching
methods/methodologies in times of COVID-19, including different context such as formal
and informal education.
The conference focused:
What main lessons the AP RCEs community learned during the COVID-19?
What has made AP RCEs stronger during COVID-19 pandemic?
How supported AP RCEs communities mobilized against the COVID-19 pandemic through
SDG/ESD?
New challenges for RCE community: What activities could help to mitigate COVID-19
impacts?

10. Outputs
AP RCEs members discussed the role of ESD during the COVID-19
pandemic and implementation of sustainable development
principles in the Asia-Pacific region.
RCE members and stakeholders shared the experience of
response and possibilities of education for sustainable
development during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

11. Thank you for attention !