Worldwide  

Over the last eighteen months PIMA (PASCAL International Members Association), 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.

France  

I am writing on behalf of the CMA to invite you to an upcoming conference organized by partners of UIL, the CMA (Comité mondial pour les apprentissages tout au long de la vie (CMAtlv), partenaire officiel de l’UNESCO -- World Committee for Lifelong Learning (WCLLL), official partner of the UNESCO) on 10 February 2022 titled “TERRITOIRES APPRENANTS : DE LA NAISSANCE A LA RECONNAISSANCE”, or in English: “LEARNING TERRITORIES: FROM BIRTH TO RECOGNITION”.

Kenya  

UN-Habitat and UCLGA are undertaking a series of dialogue on the issue of URL towards Africities summit, that will bring together more than 5000 representatives of local governments in Kisumu in May 2022. The overall purpose of the dialogue is to review policies and institutional frameworks supporting the integration of rural and urban continuum and its impact to establishing the foundation for local economic development and its’ ability to connect markets and systems of cities.

India  

Impact means different things to different people. Donors, governments, non-profits, and communities often have different views on how to define the impact of a development intervention. A development intervention has different impacts on collaborating stakeholders, even if those are not tracked or measured. Most efforts at measuring impacts tend to ‘blur’ it with project evaluation. There is an emerging concurrence that the impact measurement is different from the evaluation.