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
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
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
Accountability for Gender Equality in Education (AGEE)
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