UNESCO

UNESCO believes that education is a human right for all throughout life and that access must be matched by quality. Education in itself is an empowering right and one of the most powerful tools by which economically and socially marginalized children and adults can lift themselves out of poverty and participate fully in society.

Early Childhood Care and Education

UNESCO collaborates with government officials and other key stakeholders concerned with the care and education of young children aged 0-8.  UNESCO’s ECCE programmes focus on holistic pre-primary education for children over the age of 3, emphasizing its linkages with primary education while ensuring the use of developmentally appropriate techniques. 

Partnerships that involve working with health and social sectors as well as civil society and private sector actors can help widen the reach to  children in terms of age coverage and numbers.


ECCE teacher development


http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ecce/what-we-do/ecce-teacher-development

The core focus of the project will be the documentation of innovative and effective pedagogical approaches and tools in ECCE, with the aim of showcasing and disseminating practices that are unique to the Asia and the Pacific region. Examples of possible approaches include:
  • Interactive approaches to facilitating and extending children’s learning in a specific social, cultural or physical context;
  • Approaches with the potential to strengthen the capacity of teachers, practitioners and/or caregivers;
  • Approaches whose process of implementation can be documented in order to inform others about how to incorporate/adapt them in their own contexts.

Leading Education 2030
Education 2030 goes beyond past attempts to ensure access to basic education, as set out in the Education For All goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goal 2 of 2000-2015.
The Global Education 2030 Agenda new expanded scope:
  • reaches from early childhood learning to youth and adult education and training;
  • emphasises the acquisition of skills for work;
  • underlines the importance of citizenship education in a plural and interdependent world;
  • focuses on inclusion, equity and gender equality;
  • and aims to ensure quality learning outcomes for all, throughout their lives.
The main responsibility for implementing the agenda lies with governments, with UNESCO and partners providing support through coordinated policy advice, technical assistance, capacity development and monitoring of progress at global, regional and national levels.

(UNESCO)

Information Literacy


Information literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information sources, as well as to become producers of information in their own right. Information literate people are able to access information about their health, their environment, their education and work, empowering them to make critical decisions about their lives


By youth, for youth


The UNESCO Youth Programme works to create an enabling environment in which this goal can be achieved, by bringing youth voices to the fore and encouraging young people to come together to take action.  Young women and men have got the creativity, the potential and the capacity to make change happen – for themselves, for their societies, and for the rest of the world.

he Strategy covers a period of eight years, from 2014 to 2021, and provides the framework for constructive partnerships to be developed with and between youth organizations and youth-related stakeholders. It is built on the premise that youth are key partners and actors for development and peace.








Youth Strategy - Graphic







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