Among topics discussed were plans for a Pacific Consultative Meeting on Education for Sustainable Development (Apia, Samoa, 8-10 March 2006), which itself provided an occasion for Pacific ESD practitioners and experts to develop a collaborative mechanism for the UN-DESD in the Pacific islands region.

UNESCO: Petits ?tats insulaires en d��veloppement

Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) is a framework of collaborative action and a mechanism for technical support services and facilitation by UNESCO in the areas of policy, advocacy, partnership building, capacity-building and innovations.

UNESCO: LIFE-Literacy Initiative for Empowerment

Turns out the collaborative consumption model operates as a great mechanism for product trial as well.

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