Confronting the gender gap in environmental education
A global citizen and lifelong learner with a deeprooted passion for the environment and sustainable development Devonne Goad is an education consultant at UNESCO She has been tasked with projectbased policy analysis assessments and evaluations across the region of SouthEast Europe and the Mediterranean She wrote the UNESCO publications Mapping the Mainstreaming of Education for Sustainable Development Across SDG47 A Comparative Analysis of the Mainstreaming of ESD in Cyprus Greece Malta and Turkey and Scoping the Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in SouthEast Europe Including the Impact of COVID19 forthcoming She contributed to publication The Intersection of gender equality and quality education in four Mediterranean countries a regional situation analysis of the nexus between SDG4 and SDG5 in Cyprus Greece Malta and Turkey Prior to obtaining her Masters degree in Environmental Resource Management she worked in community education projects in South America focusing on climate change and ecology She was also an English as Second Language ESL teacher