Global Briefing on Public Consulation of the CONFINTEA VII Draft Marrakech Framework for Action

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87369201380?pwd=SHJCTDNETlQzdmh5UjJHdituUUJVQT09

Meeting ID: 873 6920 1380

Passcode: 205335

DATE: 30 March 2022

PLACE: Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l'Image 'CNCI' - Cité de la Culture (Tunis) - Avenue Mohamed V - Tunis

LANGUAGES: Arabic / French / English with simultaneous translation

MODERATOR: Mr. Houssem Bel Hadj

In June 2022, the seventh global United Nations meeting on adult learning and education (ALE) is planned for Morocco. This is our opportunity to influence the framework for action for the next 12 years so that it does address critical issues for the majority world. The climate catastrophe, devastating war, and conflict most recently in Ukraine, health pandemics, food insecurity, and economic uncertainties, impact the majority of people and the environment, all of which are our concern.

PIMA is working with civil society ALE networks to impact the CONFINTEA processes to ensure that values of peace, social solidarity, human development, and socio-ecological justice are integral to the anticipated Marrakesh Framework.

The webinar is for PIMA members and associates who wish to understand the process of global policy making in ALE and to identify the intervention points. This is in preparation for an on-line consultation coordinated by UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in the coming weeks. We look forward to you joining us!

DATE: 18 March 2022

TIMES: 8am CET, 9am, CAT, 2pm Bangkok, 6pm Sydney, 12midnight (17th) Vancouver

For further information contact dorothy.lucardie@bigpond.com.au

You are invited to attend our upcoming learning webinar on Digital Principles for Development in partnership with Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and GCE on February 25th, 2022, at 4.00pm SAST.

The purpose of the learning workshop in partnership with DIAL who will be to introduce their work and cover the 9 digital principles for development for an in depth understanding. The nine principles are a set of living guidance intended to help practitioners succeed in applying digital technologies to development programs.

Digital Principles for Development

February 25th 2022 4:00pm SAST/9.00am ET

The purpose of the learning webinar in partnership with DIAL, is to build capacity for participating individuals from national coalitions, and including those from the African countries participating in the GIZ scoping study, about the principles for digital development. The desired outcome would be to help the participating individuals contextualise the digital principles for development in the education sector.

We invite you to a participatory workshop that asks:

Climate Just Pedagogy – what lessons have we learned?

Over the last eighteen months PIMA, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in Education of Adults (SCUTREA), has led a series of Climate Justice and Adult Learning and Education (ALE) webinars and has produced a special edition of the its PIMA Bulletin 39 (Nov 21) which captures climate justice themes and gives examples. With recurrent intensified climate events, yet no apparent sense of urgency in many regions, we wish to deepen the dialogue and educational actions.

Co-hosted by PIMA, CASAE, ALA, MOJA, SCUTREA Invitation to Virtual Workshop

Date: 2 March 2022

Time: PDT 8am (Vancouver); 16:00 BST (London, UK); 17:00 CAT/CEST (Harare, Berlin); 20:30 IST (India); 03:00 AEDT on 3 March (Sydney) Length: 2 hours

The PIMA Bulletin No 39 will serve as the common reference text for discussions. We will assume this has been read. https://drive.google.com/drive...

Please register in advance for this event:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuisrzMiGtDTMOEXNG-RsMA5jaqaSVcx

Co-host contacts:

PIMA: www.pimanetwork.com

CASAE: https://www.casae-aceea.ca/ ALA: https://ala.asn.au/

MOJA: https://www.mojaafrica.net/en/ SCUTREA: http://www.scutrea.ac.uk/ ;

CONFINTEA VII will take place in Morocco in June 2022. This event focuses on the effectiveness of adult learning and education policies within the overall framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNESCO Member States are encouraged to develop and implement policies, incentives, regulatory frameworks and institutional structures in support of adult education provision and delivery that build human rights, social justice and sustainability.

The main focus of CONFINTEA VII is the development of a new framework for action on adult learning and education. This new framework will replace the Belem Framework for Action (BFA) which was adopted at CONFINTEA VI.

TAP on TAPAS:

The Alternatives Project

WEBINAR: There are Plenty of Alternatives!

February 3

10:30 EST / 15:30 GMT-UTC

Zoom Meeting (2 hours) Translation in French and Spanish

REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-2qrjovHtHFgPhnZ6XpBuWruHXNklId

We live on a bountiful planet filled with extraordinary human beings but facing some truly existential crises – COVID, climate change and environmental destruction, virulent poverty and inequality, rampant racism and sexism, and widespread war and conflict, to name some. These crises are systemic, built into structures of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, ableism, and more. But this is not a time for despair, this is a time for alternatives! Contrary to Margaret Thatcher's TINA, There is No Alternative, David Bollier coined the acronym TAPAS, There are Plenty of Alternatives. In this webinar, we at The Alternatives Project bring together five other organizations to share, celebrate, and discuss their outstanding work in examining, fostering, and enhancing global efforts to find education, social, economic, and political alternatives to transform dysfunctional and destructive existing systems. PLEASE JOIN US!

CHAIR AND PANELIST

CAROL ANNE SPREEN | THE ALTERNATIVES PROJECT

TAP is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation.

PANELISTS

FRANCO AUGUSTO | REEVO

REEVO is an international collective project that since 2012 promotes the collaborative construction of knowledge and networks about alternatives to learning and unconventional educational experiences from a critical, collaborative, open, and non-commercial perspective.

UDI MANDEL | ECOVERSITIES

Ecoversities is about learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships, and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.

AMANDA JANOO | WEAll WELLBEING ECONOMY ALLIANCE

WEAll is a collaboration of organizations, alliances, movements, and individuals working towards a well-being economy, delivering human and ecological well-being.

GAR ALPEROVITZ | THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT

The Next System Project is an initiative of The Democracy Collaborative aimed at bold thinking and action to address the systemic challenges we face now and in coming decades, functioning as a research and development lab for political-economic alternatives.

ASHISH KOTHARI | GLOBAL TAPESTRY OF ALTERNATIVES

The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence.

Theme: Workers and the Law: Labour Market Regulations and Inequality

Are present day labour market institutions and representative organisations fit for purpose and can they adequately address the challenges faced by workers within the current regulatory framework?

Ditsela host its first Online National Labour Law Symposium in partnership with the CENTROW (Centre for Transformative regulation of Work) and the CCMA. This symposium will focus on the recent Labour Law Amendments, how it affects workers in the workplace, their social welfare and in their own communities. It will also provide a learning space for sharing various experiences.

The Objectives and Target Audience of the symposium

This symposium provides a useful opportunity to share the research that has been undertaken on the impact of the post 2007 LRA. It will also provide a platform for the voice of workers on their workplace experiences regarding these amendments.

The key objectives of the symposium are:

• To provide a forum for the exchange of information and experiences to shop stewards and organisers on the latest amendments to the LRA post 2007, and for the exchange of information to workers in the informal economy on the latest progress on the implementation of R204 in South Africa;
• To build the capacity of shop stewards, worker leaders in MBOs of workers in the informal economy, and organisers to defend and advance the rights of workers in the workplace; and
• To forge stronger unity and solidarity between worker leaders in the formal and informal economy across their different employment relationships.

Programme

Day One: Inputs by speakers on current labour market regulation and inequality, engagement with key note address / discussion on present day challenges confronting the organisation of formal and informal workers and the steps to build unity between these workers.

Day Two: Session of commissions and plenary discussion.