This way, we make education accessible to more students, set them on a path of lifelong learning, and lay the foundations for economic development and social change locally and globally.

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Echoing Green, started in 1987 by General Atlantic co-founder David Hodgson and others, funds organizations that seek to create social change in fields like economic development, health and education.

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Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.

UNESCO: Education

Rahim Kanani is founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary, where he authors articles on international affairs and social change, and interviews global leaders on topics such as human rights, development, security, philanthropy, innovation, education, and more.

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What does it entail: It requires a change of mindset to bring about full integration of the needs for economic and social development with that to conserve the environment.

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Leading the debate on 6 July 2011, Antoinette Sandbach AM called for a change to the planning systems and for communities to have a stake in the economic and social development of land.

BBC: Welsh Conservatives debate on rural communities

The modern world society is making so-called development in every sphere but the worst victim is the human and humanity because change is making cascading effect and breaking the social foundation in to segmentation.

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