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Lessons learned in five years of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development

Stuart Mitchell

Some 60 Key Partners of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) met in Ha Noi, Vietnam, from 4 to 5 July 2019, for a final annual meeting of the GAP Partner Networks under the theme: ‘Lessons learned from five years of the GAP’. The GAP has engaged a broad range of partners to facilitate and support learning and training on ESD since 2015. Comprised of 97 key stakeholders, the GAP Partner Network has served as a forum for peer exchange and support to meet target…

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Third Sector Podcast #7: Charity shops

Stuart Mitchell

Enclosed below is the new Third Sector podcast which may be of inteerst to some of our readers: In this episode, we take a look at the charity shop market, the Code of Fundraising Practice and social media crisis communications   Our seventh monthly podcast looks at charity shops, delving into the benefits and challenges of charity retail.  Features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney speaks to Jason Lomas, head of portfolio development at the disability equality charity Scope, Reena Mukherji, director of the Octavia Foundation, which provides community support and opportunities for people in…

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UNESCO prizewinner uses AI tool to detect and collect trash worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

Not everything that looks like trash is trash. That was the fundamental challenge when a UNESCO prizewinner from Estonia, the Let’s Do It Foundation, had the idea to create an image-based trash detection system using Artificial Intelligence (AI). In recent months, the laureate of the 2018 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been busy inventing an algorithm refined enough to distinguish trash in geolocated images and videos. The AI tool called WADE (Waste Detector) has been developed in collaboration with Microsoft and the data science company SIFR.…

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Unilever Explores Science against stereotyping

Stuart Mitchell

Academics at University College London (UCL) have conducted an unprecedented experiment to attempt to disrupt the way leaders in advertising think about their consumer audiences, giving them a fresh view of how to commission creative ideas that advance progressive, inclusive and unstereotypical portrayals of people.   The project – part of Unilever’s Unstereotype initiative – explored whether DNA analysis, aimed at giving participants a greater insight into their origins, coupled with a workshop on behavioural change, could help to broaden the way people see themselves and the world around them.…

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CAP and BCAP consultations: public sector equality duty

Stuart Mitchell

CAP and BCAP are consulting on changes to their rules on offence, rolling papers and sanitary protection products. The last wholesale review of the CAP and BCAP Codes was completed in 2010, before the Equality Act 2010 came into force. CAP and BCAP therefore considered that in light of the public sector equality duty contained in the Act, to which CAP and BCAP consider they are subject, it would be appropriate to examine whether the Codes are consistent in the protections they provide to those sharing any of the protected…

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