UNESCO
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,
SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL
ORGANIZATION
Johanna Ruth S. Babilonia
Established on 16 November 1945. UNESCO has 195
Members and 8 Associate Members and is governed by the
General Conference and the Executive Board
known as the “intellectual” agency of the United Nations.
MOTTO: "since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the
minds of men that the foundations for peace should be
sought."
MAIN OBJECTIVE
● To contribute to peace and security in the world by
promoting collaboration among nations through education,
science, culture and communication in order to enhance
universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the
human rights and fundamental freedoms which are
affirmed for the people of the world, without distinction of
race, sex, language or religion
UNESCO PRINCIPAL FUNCTION
● to promote intellectual cooperation and mutual
understanding among people through all means of mass
communication
● to give fresh impulse to popular education and to the
spread of culture
● to maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge
● to encourage scientific research and training
● to apply sciences to ensure human development and the
rational management of natural resources.
STRUCTURE
UNESCO has three bodies according to its constitution:
1. The General Conference
2. The Executive Board
3. The Secretariat
GENERAL CONFERENCE
● The assembly of all Member States, which meets every
two years. At the General Conference, each member state
has one vote. It is the supreme decision-making and
controlling body of UNESCO.
● It sets the objectives and general guidelines of UNESCO's
work. It convenes state conferences and adopts
recommendations or agreements. The General Conference
elects the members of the Executive Board and at its
suggestion, appoints the Director General.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL
AUDREY AZOULAY
2017-PRESENT
EXECUTIVE BOARD
● The Executive Board consists of 58 member states and
meets five times in the Biennium. It reviews UNESCO's
work program and makes recommendations to the General
Conference
SECRETARIAT
● The Secretariat implements the UNESCO programs operationally.
The Secretariat is headquartered in Paris and has more than 50
field offices worldwide.
FIVE KEY AREAS
EDUCATION
UNESCO’s Education Sector promotes education as a way
of encouraging economic and social development around
the world.
“Education for All” program is its largest program. It aims
to expand early childhood care and education, provide free
education for all children, increase adult literacy, and set
global learning standards in reading and math.
EDUCATION
The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) aims
to ensure that girls and boys have an equal opportunity to
succeed in school
EDUCAIDS helps communities educate people about the
causes of HIV and the dangers of AIDS.
NATURAL SCIENCE
Its programs are designed to respond to the scientific aspects of
international issues, such as climate change and poverty. The
sector focuses on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),
especially those on the African continent, and on natural
disasters
One of the sector’s main initiatives is the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (ICO). The ICO helps scientists from
all over the world understand and manage ocean resources
NATURAL SCIENCE
The Natural Sciences Sector also has a program that
focuses on small island countries that are in the
process of economic development. These countries
are known as Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
The sector aims to strengthen each
island’s unique economy, society, and culture while
also unifying them into a collective identity
SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCE
The mission of UNESCO’s Social and Human
Sciences Sector is to improve the social conditions
of member countries. The sector does this by
encouraging intellectual cooperation on the values of
justice and freedom.
Leads the fight against all forms
of discrimination to guarantee human rights all over
the world.
Committed to eradicating, or ending, poverty.
CULTURE
UNESCO’s Culture Sector protects and manages
world heritage in all its forms
UNESCO defines heritage in six categories: cultural and
natural; tangible and intangible; and movable and
immovable.
The Culture Sector’s most important program is the World
Heritage Site list. Created in 1972, the World Heritage list
establishes places that would benefit from UN
and government protection.
CULTURE
● Culture Sector Provides emergency
assistance to damaged or threatened World
Heritage Sites
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Rice Terraces of the Philippine
Cordilleras Banaue, Ifugao
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● VIGAN CITY
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● SAN AGUSTIN CHURCH MANILA
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Paoay Church in Ilocos Norte
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Santa Maria Church in Ilocos Sur
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Miag-ao Church in Iloilo
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
Puerto Princesa, Palawan
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Puerto Princesa Subterranean
River National Park
Palawan
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
PHILIPPINES
● Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife
Sanctuary Davao Oriental
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
● UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector has
two main objectives: promoting universal access to
information and encouraging diverse expressions in
the media.
COMMUNICATION AND
INFORMATION
The sector’s Initiative B@bel supports a number of projects
aimed at increasing multilingual content on the internet. One
of the initiative’s projects is a multilingual web browser. This
web browser was originally designed to create and view web
pages in the Burmese language, but is now available
to software developers so they may write the program in
their own language.
The Communication and Information Sector also helps
improve the training of media professionals
SPECIAL THEMES
● UNESCO supports a number of initiatives, known as
special themes, which often combine the work of the five
main sectors. Some of these themes are global climate
change, gender equality, and post-conflict and post-
disaster responses.
● UNESCO is a huge organization. It commits itself to
improving the lives of millions of people through the
development of knowledge, the creation of local-global
partnerships, and direct-action programs.
