Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Organizations
Emtinan Alqurashi
Elif Gokbel
Overview
The role of UN institutions and organizations:
- UNICEF
- UNESCO
UNICEF
established in 1946
- every childregardless of gender, ethnicity
or circumstanceshas access to a quality
education.
- education changes lives and breaks the cycle
of poverty
https://youtu.be/ZceIZk1tKxs
Priorities
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UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1770/Pirozzi
A teacher assists Julian Goaheh, 6, in a
classroom at the UNICEF-supported
Ganta Public School in Ganta Town,
Nimba County, Liberia.
UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1696/Pirozzi
Equitable access
Many initiatives, e.g. Let Us Learn
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UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0798/Dormino
A girl looks up from writing on a
chalkboard, in a tent classroom at Ecole
Joyeux Lutins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Quality of education
-
UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1119/Kate Holt
Children attend a hygiene education
class that is part of a UNICEFsupported water, sanitation and hygiene
programme in a primary school in Naros
Village, near the town of Lodwar, Rift
Valley Province, Kenya.
Girls education
Some of their work:
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Girls re-entry policy in South Africa and Zambia that allows girls to return
to school after childbirth.
UNESCO
established in 1945
build networks among nations that enable moral and
intellectual solidarity:
UNESCO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJ0CYP8oNY
Priorities
Global Priorities
Priority groups:
Africa
Gender equality
Youth
Small island developing
states
Least-developed
countries
LDCs
poorest and weakest segment of the
international community
Thank you
References
http://www.unicef.org/
http://en.unesco.org/
https://efareport.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/womens-education-helps-avert-child-marriage/