As the current Chair of the Arab Support Group for the Fourth Objective of Sustainable Development (SDG4), the Regional Center for Educational Planning (RCEP) is hosting the Partners Group's sixth meeting in its own premises in Sharjah on the 23-24 of April, 2019. The Arab Support Group includes the UNESCO Beirut Office, representatives of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States, the Education Bureau of the League of Arab States, the Global Campaign for Education, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Regional Center for Quality and Excellence in Education, and RCEP. The regional Arab SDG-Education 2030 Support Group is a key mechanism to strengthen coordinated support for Education 2030 across the region. It aims to enhancing the national-regional-global nexus for effective coordination and implementation of SDG4.
Building on the Third Arab Regional Meeting on SDG–Education 2030 (AR-MED III), the Sixth Meeting aims to discuss and agree on concrete implementation mechanism of Dead Sea Commitments. Specifically, this meeting seeks to debrief SDG4 partners on the outcomes of the GEM and 2019 March SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee Meeting and discussion/agree on our region's response/actions if any; to discuss and agree on how best to implement partners actions in Dead Sea Commitments, and how to support Member States to prepare their first five-year National Report on Education 2030.