UNESCO's past activities in Land Resources: Participation Programme UNESCO’s Participation Programme is designed to provide direct assistance to initiatives undertaken by Member States in the Organization’s fields of competence, in line with priorities determined by the countries themselves, with proposals submitted via UNESCO National Commissions. The funds are modest (up to a maximum of US$26,000 granted for national project requests, with about six projects per country in each biennium, and up to US$46,000 for regional submissions). But UNESCO is not a funding agency. And support at these sorts of level may often be easier to assimilate than higher orders of financial contribution.

As an ensemble, Participation Programme projects touch on many of the technical fields and areas of concern addressed in the Barbados Programme of Action, including Land resources, as reflected in these approved projects from the 2002-2003 biennium. Bahrain. Building up an environmental data base at the Environmental Research Centre at the University of Bahrain. Marshall Islands. Prepartion of childrens books on ‘lands-skies-oceans’ based on Marshallese oral traditions. Trinidad & Tobago. ‘Our Mountains, Our Fresh Water, Our Heritage’ project.