UNESCO 2022-2025 Freedom of Expression, Communication, Information, Culture - Multidonor Programme FoE SoJ - Ny strategi 2024 UNESCO 2022-2025 Freedom of Expression, Communication, Information, Culture The contribution aims at promoting and protecting freedom of expression, including media development, safety of journalists, the right to information, and diversity of cultural expression. The results are in form of global norms, monitoring, knowledge and advocacy as well as capacity strengthening of member states, leading to improved, context based, environment for information, communication and culture in many countries. The cooperation consists of four components: two multi-donor programmes for communication and information - the Programme on Freedom of Expression and the Safety of Journalists and the International Programme for the Development of Communication - and two projects for Reshaping Policies for creativity and artistic freedom as well as Measuring Culture's contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Insatsen syftar till att främja och skydda yttrandefrihet, inklusive medieutveckling, journalisters säkerhet, rätten till information och en mångfald av kulturyttringar. Resultaten är i form av globala normer och uppföljningssystem, kunskap och opinionsbildning samt kapacitetsstärkande av medlemsländerna, vilket leder till en förbättrad, kontextbaserad, miljö för information, kommunikation och kultur i många länder. Samarbetet består av fyra komponenter: två multigivarprogram för kommunikation och information;  the Programme on Freedom of Expression and the Safety of Journalists och the International Programme for the Development of Communication samt de två projekten; Reshaping Policies for creativity and artistic freedom och Measuring Culture's contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Målen utgår från Unescos Medium-Term Strategy för 2022-2029 

Overall objectives: 
Build inclusive, just and peaceful societies by promoting freedom of expression, cultural diversity, education for global citizenship, and protecting the heritage, as well as Promote inclusion and combat discrimination, hate speech and stereotype

Culture: 

Supporting the achievement of Outcome 5 Enhance the protection and promotion of the diversity of heritage and cultural expressions, in particular:

Output 5 whereby Member States and civil society capacities are strengthened to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions through dynamic and inclusive cultural and creative industries and 
Output 6 whereby Member States capacities are strengthened to promote, monitor and measure the contribution of culture to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the local, national and regional levels.


Communication and Information:

Supporting the achievement of Outcome 6 Promote freedom of expression and the right to information, in particular: 
Output 6.CI2: Member States have strengthened capacities and raised awareness to enhance norms and policies related to freedom of expression, press freedom, safety of journalists, including women journalists, and the right to access information, online and offline, and; 
Output 6.CI3: Member States and media institutions enabled to strengthen media development and media pluralism, including through the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)), and 
Supporting the implementation of Strategic Objective 4: Foster a technological environment in the service of humankind through the development and dissemination of knowledge and skills and the development  ethical standards, realized through 
Outcome 8: Foster knowledge sharing and skills development in the digital age; including  
Output 8.CI5: Member States have strengthened institutional and human capacities to integrate media and information literacy (MIL) in policies and strategies, and to bridge the digital and knowledge divides, through the development of digital skills and competencies, particularly in the SIDS, and among women and girls and different marginalized and vulnerable groups).