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EDUCATION

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo joined UNESCO on November 25, 1960. The country is covered by the UNESCO Office Kinshasa.

Special programmes have been launched in HIV and AIDS prevention and for the education of children who are not in school, for handicapped children, for women and girls as well as for demobilized young adults and former child soldiers.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the 35 countries implementing the UNESCO Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE), a 10-year initiative aimed at achieving the goals of the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012).

The country also participates in the 10-year UNESCO's Teacher Training Initiative for sub-Saharan Africa (TTISSA) which will assist the continent’s 46 sub-Saharan countries in restructuring national teacher policies and teacher education.

Young winners of “Cities around the World” meet in Paris 2008-06-13 12:00 pm UNESCO

Training literacy facilitators: good practices and innovations 2008-02-27 10:00 am UNESCO UIL

African countries meet in Maputo to boost literacy 2008-01-29 9:00 am UNESCO

UNESCO Education Commission concludes debates 2007-10-30 3:00 pm UNESCO

Draft resolutions debated in first meetings of UNESCO Education Commission 2007-10-23 2:00 pm UNESCO

Recruitment: Chief Technical Advisor for an Education Sector project 2007-08-06 9:00 am UNESCO

Study of higher education’s response to HIV and AIDS 2006-04-20 10:20 am UNESCO
A new report, “Expanding the field of inquiry” looks at the responses of higher education institutions to the AIDS epidemic. It concludes that for the most part universities have continued business as usual in a world without AIDS.