UNESCO has established a Monitoring and Evaluation Expert Group (MEEG) comprising specialists who have expertise and experience in M&E at the international and national level in the following fields: educational policies and management, educational statistics, ESD, environmental education, social development and economics of development.

The MEEG provides guidance on the preparation and implementation of the global Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework for the DESD, drawing on the M&E approaches developed by the Europe and Asia-Pacific regions and the existing M&E systems of other UN global initiatives (EFA, UNLD, EDUCAIDS, MDGs).

It provides technical advice and support to the DESD Secretariat to assess:

- global progress in the implementation of the DESD; 
- UNESCO’s contribution to the implementation of the DESD.

Daniella Tilbury (Chair, MEEG)
Professor of Sustainability 
Director of Academic and Corporate Affairs (Sustainability)
University of Gloucestershire, UK

Abelardo Brenes 
Special Advisor, Earth Charter International 

Rangachar Govinda 
Professor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration
New Delhi, India 

Alex Michalos

(To be updated) 

Roel van Raaij

(To be updated) 

Overson Shumba 
Dean, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 
The Copperbelt University, Kitwe 
Zambia 

Konai Helu Thaman
Professor, School of Education and UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education and Culture at the University of the South Pacific (USP) 

Pierre Varcher

(To be updated) 

Alycone Vasconcelos
Programme Specialist in Learning Outcomes, UNESCO Institute for Statistics