UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Regional Strategies

Assessment, Information systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS)

UIS-AIMS functions in the following modes:

organizing sub-regional and regional workshops on particular topics and themes of concern;

networking regional national counterparts in the areas of planning, systems management and statistics in an effort to build collective and national capacity to better produce and use education statistics;

providing intellectual input through participation in a range of interagency working groups, Member State initiatives, and UNESCO conferences and meetings;

promoting exchanges of information and experiences through seminars, meetings; and

disseminating information on best practices, resources, events, and opportunities throughout the network, and encouraging direct communication and linkages between experts and institutions in the network.

Serve as the UIS liaison office and representative in Asia and the Pacific;
Develop regional strategies, UIS work programmes and organize regional action programmes;
Advise and assist member states on national statistical information systems in support of EFA, MDG, PRSP, etc.;
Develop and apply strategies, methods and tools for national capacity building statistics;
Organize and supervise publication and information services; and
Internally, collaborate with the Education Policy and Reform Unit (EPR), and EFA counterparts, especially the Asia-Pacific Program of Education for All (APPEAL).