In Kenya and Brazil
“Integration of sustainable development to higher education: Innovative practices between federal universities and Bank of Brazil with impact over associative and cooperative production” By Paulo Speller & Antonio Augusto dos Santos Soares
“Education for sustainability in” By Dorcas B. Otieno Kenya Organization of Environmental Education (KOEE)
(All of the quotations in this essay are from these two papers.)
1 Goals & Strategies:
Brazil:
-Impacting regions and segments social and economically excluded, a strategy of sustainable regional development (DRS) is being implemented in Brazil.
-This strategy involves a group of federal universities and Bank of Brazil, associated to other government controlled financial institutions.
-It has three main goals: to promote social inclusion by generating more jobs and income and by democratizing the access to credit; to improve life quality and strengthen small business; to stimulate associativism and cooperativism.
-DRS strategy basically incorporates federal universities to educate and train managers and officials in an MBA program in “Business Management in Sustainable Development”.
-The Bank staff becomes prepared for the new role, which is helping or opening credit access to mini and small entrepreneurs formally and informally. DRS concentrates in around 70 productive activities and services.
-Within a value chain where both primary resources and final commodities are considered, the business plan involves the cooperation of all participant actors.
-Within the framework of sustainability, economic feasibility and constant betterment of the final product make the business itself viable.
Kenya:
-Education, public and awareness and training are important to sustainable development, especially to the meeting basic needs, poverty alleviation, etc.
-There main programme areas of action are: “reorienting education towards sustainable