Meetings of the High-Level Steering Committee and other GCM platforms

Upcoming meeting

• High-Level Steering Committee Sherpa Group Meeting (Paris, 31 May – 1 June 2023)
  • Background document (in English)
  • Background document (بالعربية)
  • Background document (en français)
  • Background document (en español)

Past meetings

• High-Level Steering Committee Sherpa Group Meeting (Online, 3 March 2023)

• High-Level Steering Committee Sherpa Group Meeting on education finance (Online, 10 February 2023)

• High-Level Steering Committee Meeting (Paris, 8-9 December 2022)
  • Background documents
  • Decisions of the HLSC
     
• Meeting of Member State representatives of the High-Level Steering Committee (New York, 20 September 2022)
   
• High-Level Steering Committee Meeting (Paris, 29 June 2022)
  • SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee's Urgent Call for Action
     

• High-Level Steering Committee, Sherpa Group Meeting (Paris, 16 May 2022)
  • Background documents
     

• High-Level Steering Committee, Sherpa Group Meeting (Online, 23-24 February 2022)
  • Background documents
     

• Global Education Meeting, High-Level Segment (UNESCO HQ and online, 10 November 2021)
  • Outcome document: Paris Declaration on Education (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish) 
  • Webpage of the meeting (also available in French and Spanish)
     

• Global Education Meeting, Ministerial Segment (Online, 13 July 2021) 
  • Outcome document (also available in French)
  • Meeting report (also available in French) 
  • Webpage of the meeting
     

• SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (Online, 28 June 2021) 
  • Meeting report (also available in French)
  • Concept note and agenda (also available in French)
  • Presentations: SDG4 benchmarks
     

• SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (Online, 14 January 2021) 
  • Report 
  • Concept note and agenda (also available in French)
  • Presentations: Monitoring the impact of the pandemic on SDG4, Benchmarks for SDG4 indicators UIS, Update on Global Cooperation Mechanism, and Improving the Global Cooperation Mechanism
     

• Global Education Meeting, extraordinary session (Online, 20 and 22 October 2020)
  • Meeting report (also available in French)
  • Declaration (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
  • Webpage of the meeting 
     

• Safeguarding investment in education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis (Online, 4 June 2020) 
  • Meeting report (also available in Arabic)
  • Agenda
     

• Emergency meeting on the education response to COVID-19 (Online, 2 April 2020) 
  • Recommendations (also available in French)
  • Meeting report 
  • Agenda 
     

• 7th SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 11 - 12 November 2019)
  • Meeting report
  • Working documents (also available in French) 
  • Joint statement to Ministerial meeting on higher education (13 November 2019 - also available in French and Spanish)
     

• 6th SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 11 - 12 March 2019)
  • Meeting report  
  • Working documents (also available in French)
     

• Global Education Meeting (Brussels, 3-5 December 2018) 
  • The Brussels' Declaration (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) 
  • Meeting report 
  •  Working documents 
  •  Webpage of the meeting
     

• 5th SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 12 - 13 September 2018)
  • Synthesis of decisions and recommendations - includes seven key recommendations to countries and regional organisations on SDG4 as well as, internal procedural matters for partners of the Committee (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish)
  • Working documents (also available in French)
     

• 4th SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 28 February - 2 March 2018) 
  • Synthesis of recommendations and decisions - includes recommendations on governance and monitoring of SDG4 and internal procedural matters of the Committee
  • Meeting report 
  • Working documents (also available in French)
     

• 3rd SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UN HQ, NY, 29-30 June 2017)
  • Meeting report 
  • Working documents
     

• 2nd SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 8-9 December, 2016)
  • Meeting report 
  • Working documents (also available in French)
     

• 1st SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee meeting (UNESCO HQ, Paris, 25-26 May, 2016)
  • Meeting report 

Members and Terms of Reference

• List of the SDG 4 Education 2030 High-Level Steering Committee (2022-2023)
• List of SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee members (2019-2021)
• List of SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee members (2016-2018) 
• SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee: Terms of Reference (revised in March 2019)
• SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee: Terms of Reference (May 2016) 

Framework documents

• Unpacking Sustainable Development Goal 4 (UNESCO, October 2017)
• Incheon Decelaration and Framework for Action for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (UNESCO, 2016)

Communication materials 

• SDGs icons, targets, and wheel to download (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
• Video explaining the SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee
• About Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4)