All Education themes

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

• UNESCO Associated Schools Network
• UNESCO-UNEVOC Network
• UNITWIN / UNESCO Chairs Programme

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

Selected projects

Capacity development

• The CapED Programme

Girls’ and women’s education

• UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education
• Brighter future for girls through education (in partnership with CJ)
• Building teachers’ capacity to promote gender equality in education (in partnership with HNA and Cihang)
• Empowering adolescent girls and young women through education (in partnership with UNFPA and UN Women)

Higher education

• Strengthening quality assurance in higher education in Africa

ICT in education

• ICT transforming education in Africa (KFIT)
• Best practices in mobile learning
• Leveraging ICT to achieve education 2030

Literacy

• UNESCO-Pearson Initiative for Literacy: Improved Livelihoods in a Digital World

Teacher education

• Enhancing teacher education in Africa (CFIT)
• Building the capacities of teachers and teacher trainers
• Enhancing teacher participation in social dialogue
• Improving coordination for stronger teacher policies

Technical and vocational education and training

• The Better Education for Africa’s Rise project
• Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM)
• Networks of Mediterranean Youth (NET-MED Youth)
• Skills and Technical Education Programme in Malawi (STEP)