Download - Issue 49 - UNESCO
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Message of the Director
Dear Colleagues and Partners,
This week I attended the 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference in
Paris France. UNESCO’s General Conference brings together all of the
Organization’s 195 Member States from 30 October to 14 November 2017 which
will determine the Organization’s budget and the direction of its programmes and
activities for the next two years. Several events were organized, such as
UNESCO’s Leaders Forum on the theme of Sustainable Development and
UNESCO’s Role in the Multilateral System along with Ministerial round tables
and plenary political debates where heads of delegations from member states
shared their countries interventions in the field of competences of UNESCO while
welcoming another woman Mme Azoulay to the helm of the organization.
On 10 November 2017, delegates will pay tribute to outgoing Director-General
Irina Bokova. I would like to join others in paying tribute to Ms Irina Bokova as
she has shown the way for other ladies to climb the ladder of success to the very
top of UN agencies. She championed without fear the agenda of building together
with member states a world, which believes and embraces unity in diversity.
Preparation for the regional retreat from 22 to 24 November 2017 are in full
planning. We are looking forward in exchanging views, reviewing activities and
prioritizing interventions to move forward with the next biennium work on SDGs
and Agenda 2063.
On the last quarter of 2017, we are also planning two major events, one to
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commemorate the International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists
(13 to 14 November 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya), and the second one, an
intercontinental Education for Sustainable Development technical workshop from
(7 to 9 December 2017) also in Nairobi Kenya.
I look forward to your participation in these events and wish you a fruitful week.
Ann Therese Ndong Jatta
Announcements
Join free 6 weeks course on "Digital Dividends" by the World Bank Group
Join the free 6-weeks online Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Digital
Dividends", starting from 7 November and ending on 9 December 19, 2017. To
enroll, click here. It is a fun learning activity; it requires 1 or 2 hours of your time,
per week. This is a course free of charge offered by the World Bank Group, to the
benefit of the Digital development community (external).
Enroll in the MOOC International and African Legal Framework on
Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Safety of Journalists
If you are a judge, a blogger, a judicial officer, a prosecutor, a parliamentarian, a
journalist, a law student, an internet user, and you wish to learn more about the
right to freedom of expression, in legal frameworks, challenges to free speech in
the digital age, access to information and the safety of journalists, especially in
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African context, enroll in the Massive Open Online Course, presented by the
Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and UNESCO.
Click here to enroll, course goes from 13 November to 18 December 2017
Visit the exhibition of Roads to Independence: The African Liberation
Heritage at the National Museum of Tanzania!
Do not miss the new exhibition
on the Roads to Independence:
The African Liberation Heritage
presents archival materials on
pre-independence times, African
liberation struggles and the role
of Tanzania in the African
Liberation movement.
Venue: National Museum of
Tanzania
from: 27 October to 20
November 2017
from 9 to 6pm
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Events of the week
United Nations Country Team and Senior Management Team meeting
United Nations System in Djibouti
6 November 2017
2nd phase of Moodle Training for the University of Rwanda Staff
Kigali, Rwanda
6 to 8 November 2017
Biodiversity Taxonomic Training: Terrestrial Insect Identification Training
in Rwanda
6 to 9 November 2016,
Huye, Rwanda
ICT capacity building workshop for tutors from 11 Science and
Mathematics Teachers Colleges
6 to 10 November 2017
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Joint Workshop for Journalists on ICTs for Sustainability of Community
Radios in Kenya
13 to 15 November 2017
Isiolo County, Kenya
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News of the week
International Scientific Committee launches Indentured Labour Route Project
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Celebrating African Heroes: An Exhibition on Tanzania and the Liberation
Struggles launched at the National Museum of Tanzania-House of Culture
Training workshop on conceiving and creating Open Educational
Resources in Djibouti
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Missions
Lydiah Gachungi
Africa Information Day Celebrations
Kigali, Rwanda
6 to 8 November 2017
Jayakumar Ramasamy
Representation of the Director of the UNESCO Office for Eastern Africa at
the UNESCO Office in Dar es Salaam
6 to 10 November 2017
Alice Ochanda
Orientation and Skills Training for United Nations Development Group for
Eastern and Southern Africa (R-UNDG ESA)
& Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) Africa Cluster 5 on Gender
Equality & Women Empowerment
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
6 to 10 November 2017 & 14 to 15 November 2017
Rahel Teferra-Belay
Orientation and Skills Training for United Nations Development Group for
Eastern and Southern Africa (R-UNDG ESA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
6 to 10 November 2017
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Mika Odido
SA Agulhas II Regional Cruise from Durban, South Africa to Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania and back to Durban, with the purpose of engaging the international
scientific community in collaborative oceanographic and atmospheric research,
from coastal environments to the deep sea.
What the Press says about us
International Day on Ending Impunity on Crimes Against Journalists,
2 November 2017
Kenya Television Network (KTN) Show, Guest Jaco Du Toit, Regional Advisor
for Communication and Information at the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern
Africa, watch the TV programme, here
Kenyans need more than fact-checking tips to resist misinformation, Source:
Columbia Journalism review
Tanzania: Ngorongoro Now Picked New Global Geopark, Source:
AllAfrica.com
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Meetings
UN Women 16 days of activism against violence against women
Planning meeting , 2 November 2017
UN Women in Kenya is leading activities and planning events, debates with media
and the public to kick off the 16 days of activism against violence against women
campaign, starting on 25 November 2017 until 10 December 2017. The 16 days
aims to raise awareness of the issue of violence against women and girls around
the world by actively speaking about it, with the objective to end all sorts of
violence. Debates and sessions on women participation in politics, gender and
environment, girls and tech hubs are planned. UNESCO will engage in online
social media messages and awareness-raising. UN agencies involved are UN
Habitat, UN Environment and the United Nations Information Centre in Nairobi
to sensitize about this importance issue. UNESCO will attend weekly meetings at
the UN complex in Nairobi.
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Publications
Accountability practices and
policies in Rwanda's education
system
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The State of accountability in
education sector in Tanzania: the
case of primary education
development program
Outcome Document The
Mauritius Call for Universal
Access to Information to
Overcome Divides and Achieve
the Sustainable Development Goals
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Videos
Entrepreneurs and innovators are
coming together: Improving
innovation policies across the
African Continent, learn more on
I4Policy.org, Video here
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UNESCO Days and Public Holidays
National and African Day of Youth
1 November 2017
International Day to end Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
2 November
World Day of Romani Language ( 38 C/65)
5 November
Grandparents' Day South Sudan
12 November
Birthdays
Saba Bokhari
6 November
Scheherazade Feddal
21 November 2017
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