United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

  • A Advocate
  • I Implementer
  • N Network
  • P Policymaker
  • R Researcher

Description

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in Agenda 2030, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015. Education transforms lives and is at the heart of UNESCO’s mission to build peace, eradicate poverty and drive sustainable development.Its work encompasses educational development from pre-school to higher education and beyond. Themes include global citizenship and sustainable development, human rights and gender equality, health and HIV and AIDS, as well as technical and vocational skills development.

Primary Functions

  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Policy Development/Implementation
  • Program/Project Implementation

Secondary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Networking/Convening
  • Research - project evaluation

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

Areas of work Back to Top

Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Food/water security
  • Migration
  • Nutrition
  • Sports
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls' education partners

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Locations and contact information Back to Top

Website

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Headquarters location(s)

  • Paris, Île-de-France, France

Office location(s)

  • Afghanistan
  • American Samoa
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Chile
  • China
  • Congo
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cuba
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Ghana
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Lebanon
  • Mali
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Russian Federation
  • Senegal
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • United States of America
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Viet Nam
  • West Bank and Gaza
  • Zimbabwe

Contacts

Patricia Machawira
UNESCO Regional HIV and Health Advisor
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Botswana
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Uganda
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Projects Back to Top

Project/Program

Girls' Right to Education Programme in Pakistan: Support to National Capacity Building to Realize Girls' Right to Education Programme in Pakistan

Research Project/Report/Study

Addressing the gender dimensions of COVID-related school closures

Advocacy Campaign/Project

SDG4 Youth & Student Network

Research Project/Report/Study

Inclusion and education: All means all Global Education Monitoring Report Summary 2020

Project/Program

Family and Inter-Generational Literacy and Learning Project

Advocacy Campaign/Project

COVID-19: Policy Brief and Recommendations: Strengthening efforts to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence as schools reopen

Project/Program

Factory Literacy Program (FLP) in Cambodia

Project/Program

UNESCO/UNODC Initiative on Global Citizenship Education: Educating for a culture of lawfulness

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Safe to Learn

Project/Program

Access to Inclusive Quality Primary and Secondary Education for IDPs, Returnees, Remainees, and Refugees in Crisis Affected Areas in Iraq

Project/Program

Noyau Dur STEM

Project/Program

Joint Programme on Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Education

Network/Convening/Conference

Better Life, Better Future

Project/Program

Reaching the Unreached: Innovative and Diverse Learning Pathways for Syrian Refugee Youth in Lebanon REACH II

Research Project/Report/Study

UNESCO World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE)

Network/Convening/Conference

Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)

Project/Program

Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Education in Tanzania

Project/Program

Toolkit and Training on ‘Youth Advocacy and Campaigning for Reducing Youth Unemployment in Lebanon’

Project/Program

Education Plus Initiative

Research Project/Report/Study

Education during COVID-19 and beyond

Project/Program

Girls Step in STEM for a million opportunities

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Alternate Learning Pathways (ALP) Programme

Project/Program

The UNESCO Middle Schools in Bekaa/Lebanon

Project/Program

We are ABLE: Promoting Gender Equality and Girls’ Education in the Ethnic Minorities Areas of Viet Nam

Network/Convening/Conference

Global Education Coalition

Research Project/Report/Study

COVID-19 Education Response: Preparing the Reopening of Schools

Funding Initiative/Portfolio

Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX)

Project/Program

Education Response Plan for Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda

Project/Program

UNESCO-HNA Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education: Ethiopia

Funding Initiative/Portfolio

UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Gender at the Center Initiative (GCI)

Research Project/Report/Study

Futures of Education Initiative

Research Project/Report/Study

My Body, My Life, My World Through a COVID-19 Lens

Research Project/Report/Study

Her Atlas

Research Project/Report/Study

#SaveOurFuture Campaign

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Champion Fellowship Programme

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Framework for Reopening Schools

Project/Program

Rapariga Biz

Research Project/Report/Study

COVID-19 Education Response: Supporting teachers and education personnel during times of crisis

Project/Program

From Girl to Girl - Community-Led Peer Education through Sports

Advocacy Campaign/Project

A Young Advocate's Guide to Advancing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)

Research Project/Report/Study

Building back equal: girls back to school guide

Research Project/Report/Study

Cameroon Education Response to School-Based Gender-Based Violence

Research Project/Report/Study

World Population Dashboard

Project/Program

The Gender-Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education (GRP4ECE) Toolkit

Project/Program

Vocational Support Program for Refugee Women in Lebanon

Project/Program

UNESCO-China Hainan Airlines Project

Advocacy Campaign/Project

Bright Girls, Brighter Future

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