Region Tabs
UNESCO at Dakar: Regional office for education in Africa (BREDA)
BREDA is the largest office of UNESCO in Africa. As a Regional office for education, the BREDA covers all of sub-Saharan Africa, that is to say 46 countries. In the capacity as Office multi-country, assumes the representation of the Organization in four countries of West Africa: Cape Verde, Gambia, the Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. For these countries, its responsibility extends to all the fields of competence for UNESCO, namely, education, the natural science, social sciences and human, the culture, the communication and information. The partners of the BREDA are the Member States, the System of the United Nations, the Organizations Internationales (OIG), the Organizations Non Gouvernementales (ONG) and all the people and institutions engaged in activities concerned with the fields of competence of the Organization.
UNESCO Office in Beirut
As a Regional Bureau, the Beirut Office is a center of expertise in the field of Education for the Arab world. In carrying out this mission, the UNESCO Beirut Cluster Office, serves twenty-two Arab countries in the region in the field of Education. Despite their common language and culture, Arab countries enjoy cultural variations and different national and sub-regional priorities and concerns which UNESCO takes into account when fulfilling its mandate.
As a Cluster Office, its role is to implement UNESCO’s Biennial Program by adapting the implementation of programs in its fields of competence to the specific characteristics of the region and working to ensure an active presence in each Member State. The office is responsible for providing assistance both upstream and downstream through planning, programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.
UNESCO Bangkok and the Asia Pacific region
UNESCO Bangkok promotes international co-operation, sets standards and disseminates information in the fields of education, the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, culture and communication in the Asia and Pacific region.
The mandate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the promotion of peace and human development through its operational strategies in education, science, culture and communication and information.
Europe and North America
The UNESCO Moscow Office facilitates the achievement of the Global Development Goals, namely EFA goals by 2015 on all educational levels. The Office Education Sector activities are directed to advocate and to support the countries’ efforts to improve quality in Education for All with the focus to increase the access to high-quality Early Childhood Care and Education; to foster capacity development and policy formulation on inclusion and quality learning enhancement; and beyond the cluster - to raise Technical-Vocational Education and Training and Sustainable Development agendas in CIS countries.
It is the Organization’s only cluster office based in Europe.
Latin America
The Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean with headquarters in Santiago, Chile (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), was created in 1963 for the purpose of assisting the region’s 37 Member States in the definition of strategies to further the development of their education policies.
In response to the mandated role assigned to UNESCO by its Member States at the World Education Forum, Dakar, 2000, the Regional Bureau’s strategic plan forms part of the Education for All (EFA) Action Framework, and the Regional Education Project for Latin America and the Caribbean (PRELAC). Whereas the former reflects a global commitment to ensure the right to quality education for all individuals, PRELAC identifies the region’s specific priorities and the challenges it must confront to reach the EFA goals. Both frameworks, inspired on the rights-based approach, represent the major referent in the work undertaken by the Regional Bureau.
Partnerships for Education
Partnerships for Education aims to create a global coalition for Multi-Stakeholder Partnership for Education, including the private sector, in order to advance progress toward the objectives of Education for All (EFA).
