Local Challenges, Global imperatives: Cities at the Forefront to Achieve Education 2030 Project

Centre for Neighbourhood Studies

The achievement of SDG 4 on quality education will require both global and local commitments. Education, to the extent that it brings together a range of stakeholders within a given territory, is a local issue. It concerns individuals – learners and teachers – and takes place in multiple environments: within family, community, and classroom. In order that it properly reflects its local dimensions, education has increasingly undergone decentralisation reform. As responsibilities are transferred and new mechanisms developed to properly delegate power to regional and local authorities, cities have gained an ever more important role. Countries have adopted varied decentralisation frameworks, ranging from deconcentration and devolution – the transfer of some degree of autonomy to local elected authorities – to school-based management. The urgent need to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) has led to their promotion at the global level. Yet, it is at the local level that the most promising solutions are emerging. Cities are at the forefront of achieving quality education for all (SDG 4) in their respective territory, as highlighted by their crucial role in facing the education crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic and amidst the challenge of climate change.

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