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Fostering community-based development through culture-related TVET and employment The present project proposal aims to support 2 pilot countries in mobilizing cultural institutions, including heritage sites, museums and cultural centres, as knowledge hubs, to strengthen heritage education and foster the appreciation of cultural diversity, with a particular view to expanding professional opportunities in the cultural sector. As such, the present project will support the uptake of knowledge and skills, benefiting from the strengthened capacity of the cultural institutions from an educational perspective, particularly encompassing non-formal and lifelong learning approaches, towards fostering inclusive and sustainable development.
Safeguarding of the Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom, 5th phase of the UNESCO/JASA Project This project was designed to assist the Royal Government of Cambodia and more in particular the APSARA National Authority, to enhance management and operational capacities and to benefit from international exchange to conserve and restore one of the most important monuments of the site of Angkor- "The Bayon Temple".
Strengthening media development and media pluralism, including through the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) in Eastern Africa Support to strategic actions for advancing media pluralism (particularly community media) and independence (improving professional standards) in the media for achievement of sustainable development in Eastern Africa. Stakeholders and citizens to be empowered and sensitized on conducting of media assessments and research based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators (MDIs), the Gender Sensitive Indicators for the Media (GSIM) or the Journalists' Safety Indicators; and capacities for journalism educators, journalists, and media managers strengthened including improving journalism education based on using UNESCO's Model Curricula for Journalism Education in Eastern Africa.
Supporting the ArabMAB network Member States in the Arab Region participate actively in MAB and the WNBR through the ArabMAB Network and its 35 biosphere reserves in 14 countries. Regional cooperative initiatives for sustainable development and climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience will be supported and facilitated in close synergy with UNESCO Field Offices in the region. BRs will be promoted as areas of innovation and learning sites with particular reference to biodiversity conservation (post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework), ecosystem restoration (UN Decade on ES), climate change action and the sustainable development of local communities. Participation in regional initiatives should ensure mandatory gender parity in the target groups, and value local and indigenous knowledge.
Other functions of the Committee (41C/5) The Plan for the use of the resources of the Fund and budget plan allocates part of its resources for 'Other functions of the Committee' as described in Article 7 of the Convention and in the Operational Directives. Such 'other functions' aim, in particular, at promoting the objectives of the Convention and encouraging and monitoring its implementation through strengthening institutional and community capacities for effectively safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, raising awareness of such heritage and its significance, and disseminating information about good safeguarding practices.
Strengthen inclusive policies in LAC applying innovative social and human science knowledge UNESCO in LAC will continue promoting the use of innovative social science knowledge to improve social inclusion policies and programs at the local, national and regional level in LAC, particularly tackling inequalities reinforced during the pandemic and affecting youth and women.
Implementation of the Future Teacher Kit Approach. Foundational and 21st century teaching skills for teachers in the Caribbean Many teachers in the Caribbean lack basic digital skills; therefore, improving their digital competencies is key to the teaching profession. This project aims to build capacities of teachers, and school leaders on digital skills and blended learning solutions, and establish a community of practice for the exchange and collaboration of teachers on a national, cross-regional and international level. Main activities include: i) training teacher trainers and master teachers to become facilitators and tutors; ii) training teachers on instruction in online environments and 21st century skills; iii) establishing a community of practice; and iv) organizing workshops for policy makers.
World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves: ecological restoration and conservation of ecosystems in island and coastal biosphere reserves The project supports UNESCO Member States by establishing local strategies that contribute to preserving biological diversity, advancing sustainable development and climate change adaptation, and promoting biosphere reserves as tools to bring added value to local socio-economic activities on island and coastal biosphere reserves. It aims to provide a substantial contribution to these efforts by developing integrated strategies for ecosystem restoration in island and coastal ecosystems, with particular emphasis on developing countries, especially Small Islands Development States.
Appui au développement de la petite enfance pour l'amélioration des rendements scolaires Le projet vise l'amélioration de l'offre éducative et de la qualité de l'enseignement à titre pilote dans 50 écoles maternelles publiques et centres préscolaires communautaires dans sept départements (Alibori, Atacora, Collines, Borgou, Couffo, Atlantique et Plateau). Il aura deux effets majeurs dans les zones cibles: (i) l'offre du préscolaire sera renforcée pour les enfants des milieux défavorisés ; (ii) la qualité des soins et des activités de développement de la petite enfance sera améliorée.
Advocating for a gender responsive, viable diverse and pluralistic Media in Southern Africa The Media in Southern Africa is going though sustainability challenges caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, competition from digital platforms, and the collapse of legacy media business models. All these challenges call for the need for States to implement seeping changes in policies as well as better journalism training to re-skill in-service and pre-service journalists to adapt to the new global media operating environment. This project therefore seeks to support UNESCO member states in enhancing media pluralism and excellence in gender- responsive journalism training and capacity strengthening for the achievement of sustainable development
Provision of TVET, On-the-Job Training, and Entrepreneurship Education to Youth Affected by the Syria Crisis in Jordan (Phase Four) Building on previous and current projects supported by the Government of the Republic of Korea, UNESCO proposes to support an additional 250 (50% males and 50% females) Syrian refugee and vulnerable Jordanian youth with scholarships to access BTEC-level TVET programmes in relevant fields of study. Towards the end of the project, beneficiaries will benefit from on-the-job training and entrepreneurship education to enable them to apply their newly developed knowledge and skills in a professional environment.
La coopération au service de la sécurité de l'eau et du développement durable en Afrique centrale La région Afrique centrale est très riche en ressources en eau, avec les nombreux basins qu'elle abrite, comme que le bassin du Congo. Cette région fait face à de nombreux défis tels que les inondations, dans le contexte du changement climatique. De plus, la gestion et la gouvernance de l'eau se heurtent à de nombreuses difficultés. En effet, très peu de pays disposent d'un Comité PHI opérationnel. A cela s'ajoute le manque de données, de formation et de renforcement des capacités dans domaine de l'eau. Il est donc indispensable d'accompagner les pays de région dans le renforcement des capacités institutionnelles et de gouvernance, l'amélioration et le partage des connaissances, le renforcement de la coopération afin de promouvoir la paix et le développement durable
Appui à la participation des femmes et des jeunes aux initiatives de consolidation de la paix, de renforcement des mécanismes de cohésion sociale et du vivre ensemble au Cameroun Le projet a pour objectif renforcer la participation et le rôle des femmes des jeunes dans la prévention la résolution des conflits, consolidation de la paix et promotion de la culture de la paix et du vivre-ensemble au Cameroun. Il vise à renforcer la cohésion sociale par la mise en place de mécanismes d'appui au vivre ensemble, à un meilleur respect des droits humains et protection des personnes vulnérables, au développement d'une empathie nationale pour la paix et promotion du bilinguisme et multiculturalisme. Il s'agit de donner réponse aux efforts de consolidation de paix en cours initiés par le Cameroun face aux crises qui menacent la paix la sécurité des personnes et des biens.
Resource mobilization effort to develop a flagship programme on sustainable tourism in the SADC region The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa seeks to develop a US$ 15 million regional flagship programme on sustainable tourism to stimulate and promote sustainable tourism practices around UNESCO designated sites. For this purpose, the Office will engage a resource mobilization expert who will lead the process of developing the project document in a participatory and inclusive manner. The expert will help identify key strategic stakeholders, such as representatives from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), national heritage and tourism authorities, local authorities, site managers, local communities and UN Agencies, development partners and donors who should be involved in the development of this regional flagship programme.
JPO (Germany) for Digital Innovation and Transformation Section, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO Under the overall supervision of C/DIT, and Direct Supervision of the Programme Specialist lead on AI, the JPO will work on "frontier technologies", including artificial intelligence.
Soutien à l'élaboration d'une stratégie de sauvegarde et de valorisation des savoirs et des savoir-faire lié à l'artisanat au Maroc le projet vise à soutenir le Secrétariat d'Etat chargé de l'artisanat et de l'économie sociale dans la préparation d'une stratégie de sauvegarde et de valorisation des savoirs et des savoir-faire liés à l'artisanat du Maroc en tant qu'élément du patrimoine culturel immatériel marocain.
International Jazz Day and related activities project. Every year, International Jazz Day celebrations culminate in a global All-Star Concert, highlighting the scope of the global jazz community and bringing together famous jazz artists and showcasing the global reach and creative richness of jazz and its role in building bridges between peoples, countries and cultures around the world. International Jazz Day's core activities focus also on the educational outreach within a given community/city.
Scaling-Up and Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities in the North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Regions to the Impact of Tsunamis and Other Sea Level-Related Coastal Hazards The CoastWAVE project Phase-II is aimed at Scaling-Up and Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities in the North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Regions to the Impact of Tsunamis and Other Sea Level-Related Coastal Hazards. It will build collective capacities in tsunami hazard and risk assessment. It will track changes in the level of tsunami awareness, risk perceptions. The project will install additional tsunami detection and monitoring systems. It will scale up Tsunami Ready communities in existing and new countries. A key outcome is to engage and create dialogues with multi-stakeholders and users involved in coastal resilience.
Strengthened South-South Cooperation in STI systems management The major problem facing STI policies and governance in the ECOWAS region is the inability of STI managers to demonstrate its impact and contribution to socio-economic development. To increase the contribution of science, technology, and innovation (STI) to national development, cooperation across countries and regions it is important to spur innovation and knowledge development. The activity will focus on the mobilization of knowledge based on south-south cooperation in Africa which shall used to improve the monitoring of STI policies and hence support improved STI system governance.
Japanese JPO - ESD for 2030 (2022-) Contribute to implementing the UNESCO/Japan Prize on ESD and the ESD for 2030 framework in general
Strengthening the role of youth in promoting increased mutual understanding, constructive narrative, respect for diversity, and trust The overall objective of project is to empower Young people to enhance dialogue and trust across the region by promoting fact-based, positive narratives and gender equality in the public sphere and media.

The role of culture in advancing peace building and reconciliation is extremely important as promote importance of cultural diversity and advance processes of mutual comprehension and respect. The combination of Culture and Education as well as strong involvement of Youth will enable a more open dialogue, not necessarily burdened with events of the recent past and historical development of the region, and thus directly contribute to the stabilisation processes.
Favoriser l'émergence d'une conscience éthique afin de maîtriser les impacts sociétaux des transformations numériques, de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) et du changement climatique à moyen et long terme en Afrique de l'Ouest-Sahel En collaboration avec ses partenaires stratégiques, SHS/Dakar focalisera essentiellement son action sur le renforcement des capacités de ses 7 Etats membres pour l'élaboration de politiques participatives fondées sur la production de nouvelles connaissances, promouvant les meilleures pratiques et soutenant des programmes nationaux axés sur l'égalité des genres, l'inclusion de la jeunesse, le bien-être et la culture de la paix. La nouvelle stratégie s'articulera ainsi autour de 2 axes programmatiques globaux qui rassembleront un ensemble d'activités ayant pour priorité thématique la jeunesse et l'égalité des genres : 1) le renforcement de l'aide à la décision politique pour une Afrique émergente et 2) les routes du dialogue et de la paix en Afrique.
Building Disaster Resilience of the Angkor World Heritage Site The Angkor World Heritage Site itself is vulnerable to disasters, particularly seasonal heavy rains and flooding exacerbated by climate change and urban development. Recent incidents of significant floods include 2009, 2010, and 2011 and heavy floods of 2013.
Despite these risks, a Disaster Risk Management Plan for Angkor is yet to be created. Key reasons include a lack of strategic vision for disaster preparedness and the limited capacity and access to resources to develop such a plan. 
The project objective is to strengthen disaster and other risk management at Angkor, while focusing on scoping future work that will be needed for the Government to develop such a plan for the country.
Creative Youth at Indonesian Heritage Sites Phase IV Addressing the lack of capacity building opportunities for the local communities at WH sites, UNESCO Jakarta will provide assistance to young budding entrepreneurs living in and around heritage sites in continuation of project initiated since 2017. Youth engaged in the practice of traditional arts and culture, or creative industries including tourism, is targeted in priority as the local culture-based business contributes to enhancing the value of World Heritage sites, and confers sense of pride to youth. In this Phase IV, project will focus on outreach to national level stakeholders and transfer of project methodology to local governments as exist strategy.
Assistance to the rehabilitation of the Sursock Palace This project aims at contributing to the restoration of the Sursock Palace and falls under the priorities identified by national and international stakeholders and UNESCO following the Port of Beirut explosions, namely the LiBeirut initiative and the 3RF.
This project will focus on the most urgent intervention, namely the structural restoration of the Northern elevation and the restoration of the two related Northern pitched roofs. 
By contributing to the rehabilitation of this key Beiruti heritage landmark this project will contribute to enhancing the liveability of Beirut, foster economic development and social cohesion in the damaged areas by drawing business and residences back to those areas.
Teacher Capacity Building with AI and Digital Technologies: E-library for Teachers The Project is aimed to support the ongoing growth and capacity building of teachers in the era of smart learning by fully unleashing the potential of ICT and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The key outcomes of the Project will be a platform with up-to-date digital resources and educational materials, capacity building activities for teachers, and strong partnership network. The Project will contribute to achieving SDG 4 for education and particularly meeting Target 4.c by providing teachers and teaching with open educational resources, free public tools as well as online and onsite trainings, thereby empowering teachers to deliver quality and equitable education.
Participative inventorying of ICH elements and revitalization of indigenous languages in the Peruvian Amazonian region Within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages and in contribution to the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the project seeks to design and implement tools for the participative inventorying of ICH elements and the revitalization of 3 indigenous languages (Ikitu, Kukama-Kukamiria and Taushiro). The bearer communities concerned are located in the Amazon region of Loreto. The project will benefit more than 1,700 speakers of these languages, which are, according to information from the Ministry of Culture, seriously endangered. The project will prioritize work with indigenous youth by strengthening capacities to develop community-based ICH inventories.
Enhancing the creation, use and adaptation of inclusive and quality Open Educational Resources - UNESCO OER Recommendation 2019 The implementation of the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER will be supported through the following activities: 
1.	Reinforcing the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition 
2.	Implementing global events on the implementation of the OER Recommendation
3.	Supporting OER Policy Development
4.	Supporting OER Capacity Development
5.	Supporting the monitoring of the OER Recommendation 2019 
6.	Identifying, assessing and piloting of innovative use of technologies for OER
Secondment from the Republic of Korea for BEAR II project- Ms Kim Hongsun UNESCO mobilized extra-budgetary funding from the Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to support five selected countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda) in the TVET sector through a phase II of the Better Education for Africa's Rise (BEAR). The project's time-frame is five years (2017-2022) and the overall envisioned budget is 10 million USD. Ms Kim Hongsun will work under the direct supervision of the YLS section chief to oversee BEAR II implementation, coordinate with UNESCO Nairobi office and provide backstopping to country projects coordinators.
Promoting the Use of Information in Educational Planning in Latin America and the Caribbean This proposal has two objectives. Firstly, to make the necessary adaptations to the current capacity building resources in the use of information for educational planning in order to consolidate them and make them more relevant and appealing to potential donors. Secondly, to implement a resource mobilization strategy focused on governments (national and subnational), and private donors and other international organizations that support governments in improving educational planning and the management and use of data.
Empowering duty bearers to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities in DRC The Constitution of the DRC (Article 49) and the organic law promulgated in June 2022 , which aims to promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities (PDs) based on the Convention, advocate the construction of an inclusive society. This project will support capacity-building for national stakeholders, including CSOs seeking to ensure more effective contributions to implementation of the Convention and inclusion of the SDGs and related policies and systems, including through the development and dissemination of tools and knowledge products and good practices, with a focus on inclusive education and accessibility
U&I Build Socio-Ecological Systems Resilience in the Arab Region Exacerbated by the rapid urbanization driven by population growth, coupled with climate change and environmental degradation, the Arab region has been increasingly affected by Natural Hazards including floods, droughts, sand storms, and landslides. Anticipation skills through raising awareness about these hazards, their potential risks and losses are necessary to ensure risk reduction in all sectors. The workplan will build on joint activities via established partnerships with regional organizations and specialized groups of policy-makers, scientists and researchers, women and youth, people with disabilities and the private sector to build socio-ecological systems resilience to save lives and properties of people in the Arab region.
Gender mainstreaming through stakeholder engagement and journalism trainings Pakistan has a diverse and vibrant media landscape. However, over past two years government has proposed social media regulation and media regulatory regime is in transition which is viewed by journalists and experts as leading to self censorship and detrimental to freedom of expression and diversity of media. This in turn creates unfavorable conditions for pluralism and gender responsiveness as well. Moreover, challenges such as increasing online abuse, and hate speech specifically against women are also adversely affecting gender representation, inclusion and pluralism in media. Proposed activities aims to train journalists and academia to effectively address hate speech with particular attention to gender, while also engaging stakeholders in policy debate on the same.
Leading globally on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) UNESCO will coordinate and implement the ESD for 2030 global framework, promoting ESD as a key element of quality education and a key enabler of all the SDGs. Interventions will focus on five action areas: advancing policy; transforming learning environments through a whole-institution approach; developing the capacity of educators; empowering and mobilizing youth; and accelerating local level actions. Emphasis will be placed on the environment-related SDGs and their interlinkages with the social and economic dimensions of sustainability. Climate action will be a key thematic priority in UNESCO's support to Member States to make climate action a core curriculum component, in line with the education component of the UNFCCC, the 2015 Paris Agreement, and the 2021 Berlin Declaration on ESD.
Gender-responsive Strengthening of Institutional Capacity in STEM Education in SADC for Sustainable Development Many countries are advocating for new gender-responsive STEM education and market responsive curriculum to accelerate Africa's aspiration for socio-economic transformation by 2024. Mobilising science as key driver for sustainable development in Africa is crucial to attaining this aspiration. UNESCO regional office for southern Africa will strengthen STEM education in SADC through innovative capacity building initiatives with a special attention to gender.