UNESCO assists Member States in developing high-quality and inclusive education system through building their capacities to design and implement education policy. UNESCO’s action is centered around the key education areas listed below.
Programmes
- Early childhood care and education
- Education about the Holocaust and genocide
- Education and gender equality
- Education for health and well-being
- Education for sustainable development
- Education in emergencies
- Education policy and planning
- Global citizenship education
- Global Education Monitoring Report
- Higher education
- ICT in education
- Inclusion in education
- Leading Education 2030
- Literacy
- Right to education
- School violence and bullying
- Skills for work and life
- Teachers
- The Capacity Development for Education programme (CapED)
Networks
Prizes
- UNESCO International Literacy Prizes
- UNESCO-Japan Prize on education for sustainable development
- UNESCO Prize for girls' and women's education
- UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for outstanding practice and performance in enhancing the effectiveness of teachers
- UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the use of information and communication technologies in education