While community-based educational structures do not resemble educational institutions in the colloquial sense, they are well-established cultural institutions in most of the focus countries. However, the available information on community-oriented ESD focuses on standard delivery non-formal education programmes (workshops, community events etc.) Furthermore, one of the challenges cited to the progress of ESD implementation has been that these traditional community-based institutions are sometimes at odds with policies and decisions related to education and ESD implementation coming from the formal sector. This suggests a need for a more systematic approach to working within these existing community structures, with full respect for the customs and approaches used for sharing of information within them, for stronger community-based ESD.