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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)