East Asia and Pacific Regional Roundtable #1
Outcome document, 2022
About
The Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable Series aims to support countries that have expressed leadership and vision in ending violence in and through schools by providing a platform for sharing knowledge, expertise, and tools and for informed peer to peer dialogue, to accelerate progress to ensure all girls and boys in all their diversity are safe to learn.
In October 2022, the first in a series of Safe to Learn (STL) regional roundtables was held for East Asia and Pacific (EAP). The roundtable was co-convened by the Safe to Learn Secretariat in the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, UNESCO Bangkok, Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, the CSO Forum to End Violence against Children (CSO Forum), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and UNICEF headquarters in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.
The roundtable aimed to explore effective, context-appropriate violence prevention and response solutions in EAP, with the goal of improving learning and ending violence against children in and through education. Participants focused on the second pillar of STL’s Call to Action: the need to strengthen violence prevention and response at the school level. The event leveraged and shared country experiences on what works and how to overcome challenges in ending violence against children in and through schools in EAP.
