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UNESCO, New
Delhi Office
UNESCO, New Delhi Office, the organization's first
de-centralized office in Asia, was established in 1948. As a
result of a new decentralized policy in 2001, the New Delhi
Office was designated as a Cluster Office and Asia Pacific
Regional Bureau for Communication and Information. As Cluster
Office, UNESCO New Delhi Office maintains relations with Bhutan,
India, Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is part of a network of 53
UNESCO Field Offices around the world, which implement the
organization's biennium programme approved by UNESCO General
Conference, every two years.
UNESCO, New Delhi Office placed great emphasis on the
development of a range of partnerships, alliances and other
cooperative mechanisms in the region, so as to foster impact for
its programme activities for both regional and national levels.
(unesco.org/newdelhi)
UNESCO Bangkok Office
The UNESCO Office in Bangkok was established in 1961 as the
Asian Regional Office for Primary and Compulsory Education. The
Office was later extended to cover all divisions of the
Education Sector and the countries of the Pacific Region.
Further growth included the incorporation of activities relating
to the Culture, Communication and Social and Human Sciences
Sectors, which laid to the eventual renaming of the office as
the Principal Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (PROAP) in
1987.
Since 2002 UNESCO Office in Bangkok has two roles. As the Asia
and Pacific Regional Bureau of Education, it is the Technical
Advisory Body to all field offices and member States of the
Region and the site of regional programmes in most areas, the
provision of information, expertise, and extra budgetary
opportunities from across the region to member States. It also
houses regional units for Culture and for Social and Human
Sciences.
As UNESCO Bangkok, the office is the sub-regional cluster office
for the countries of the Mekong region, working to develop and
implement programmes across the sectors of UNESCO's expertise.
It does so directly with UNESCO National Commissions and other
partners in Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand (countries for which
the office is the officially designated UNESCO representative
office), and in collaboration with existing UNESCO country
offices in Viet Nam and Cambodia.
The basic mission of UNESCO is to contribute to sustainable
human development in a culture of peace, underpinned by
tolerance, democracy and human rights, through programmes and
projects in UNESCO's fields of competence-education, the natural
and social sciences, culture, and communication and information.
In carrying out this mission to serve the 44 member States in
Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Bangkok takes into account the
immense size of the Asia and Pacific region, including almost
two thirds of the world's population, and its diversity and
cultural pluralism, with its great potential and its persistent
problems.
Together with its sister agencies in the United Nations system,
UNESCO is committed to consolidating the dynamism and long-term
economic growth the region has experienced and to carrying out
its ethical mission to complement this growth by addressing
threats to the peace, security, and equitable development of the
region.
(www.unescobkk.org)
Asia and
Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) :
APPEAL is a
regional cooperative programme designed to promote literacy,
primary education and continuing education as integrated
components of basic education. Approved by UNESCO General
Conference in 1985, the programme was officially launched in
1987.
APPEAL's strategy is to stress gender mainstreaming, networking
and appropriate utilization of information and communication
technology (ICT). The principal targets of APPEAL's
interventions are those groups most likely to be excluded from
participation in education: women and girls, the poor and
disadvantaged, minorities and the disabled. APPEAL encourages
innovation in both formal and non-formal education and aims at
building bridges between them with the overall aim of offering
good quality basic education through either approach.
Asia and
Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID)
APEID
was officially launched as a UNESCO Inter-Country
Programme in 1973, with a mandate to strengthen Member
States' ability to create and use educational innovations
for achieving national development goals. APEID's main
objectives are to: (I) encourage and facilitate innovative
activities to enhance equity and quality in post-primary
education, (II) strengthen the capacity of member
countries to undertake innovative actions in all programme
areas, and (III) promote inter-country technical
cooperation and the sharing of successful innovative
experiences.
Regional
Adviser for Culture in Asia and the Pacific (RACAP)
The aim of
RACAP is to promote cultural creativity and safeguarding the
world's heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region. In the rapidly
changing Asia-Pacific Region, UNESCO has a unique role to play
in ameliorating the negative aspects of globalisation while
promoting sustainable social and economic development based on a
strategy that maximises each community's distinctive assets of
cultural and human capital.
(For further details about the activities of UNESCO Bangkok
Office, its website-
www.unescobkk.org
may be accessed).
Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), Japan
The Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO is a non-profit
organization for Asia and the Pacific regional activities in
line with the principles of UNESCO, working for the promotion of
mutual understanding and cultural cooperation among peoples in
the region.
It was established in 1971 in Tokyo by joint efforts of public
and private sectors in Japan. It has since been implementing
various regional cooperative programmes in the fields of
culture, education and personnel exchange in close collaboration
with UNESCO and its Member States in Asia and the Pacific.
ACCU places its special emphasis on the programmes planned and
implemented jointly by Asian and Pacific Member States of
UNESCO. This joint programme scheme has been applied to its
cooperative projects such as production of various materials of
good quality for common use in order to encourage better
understanding of diversified cultures in the region. At present
ACCU is undertaking following activities in collaboration with
the Member States of UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific Region:-
Cultural Cooperation Programmes for Promoting the Respect of
Cultural Diversity, Reading Promotion and Book Development,
Education for Sustainable Development, Programmes relating to
Education for All such as Literacy/Non Formal Education and
various personnel exchange programmes to provide chances for
people to meet and learn from each other. (For further
information about ACCU, Japan Its website:
http://www.accu.or.jp may be accessed)
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