The input paper explores learning opportunities in the locality with a focus on how policy can usefully support schools to boost local learning for sustainability. Locality could refer to environments (rural and urban) that form part of the immediate neighbourhood, village, town, city and/or sub-regional surroundings of the school. The paper seeks to identify the key features of initiatives that links the school and the local context in which they are situated. It explores how state authorities or their equivalent, national education authorities and international agencies can harness the potential of non-formal learning in local communities and accelerate and upscale such learning through policy measures, investment and action.