- Grants for documentary heritage preservation in the Asia-Pacific region announced. More information can be found here.
- UNESCO is now receiving nominations for the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize. Apply here.
- The SEAPAVAA Executive Council, in consultation with the Vietnam Film Institute, has decided to cancel SEAPAVAA’s 24th Conference and General Assembly which was scheduled to be held in Da Nang, Vietnam, from 8 to 12 June 2020.
- Comprehensive review of the MoW Programme: Experts designated by Member States participated in a joint meeting on 1 April 2019 with members of the Memory of the World (MoW) International Advisory Committee (IAC). Download the agenda and the presentations from Jan Bos and David Fricker. Subsequently, the Chairperson of the IAC, Dr Abdulla M. Alraisi, addressed this letter to the Co-Chairs of the open-ended working group set up to examine the most appropriate legal framework for the MoW Programme as part of the comprehensive review.
- During the meeting of 14 February 2019 the Open Ended Working Group adopted its terms of reference, thus defining its mandate and working modalities.
- Following the online survey on the IAC-led review documents, the UNESCO Secretariat organized an information meeting on 30 January 2019 to present the preliminary results of the survey. This is part of the Secretariat’s ongoing effort to implement the action plan for the comprehensive review of the MoW Programme, as endorsed by the 205th session of the Executive Board. The presentation made during the meeting is available here. The final report of the online survey is available here.
- On 9 July and 5 September 2018, the MoW Secretariat organized two information sessions for Member States on the comprehensive review of the MoW Programme.
- Comments of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs (LA) on the draft revised Statutes of the International Advisory Committee (IAC), the draft revised General Guidelines for Memory of the World (MOW) Programme, and the draft MoW Code of Ethics.
- Comments of the UNESCO Ethics Office on the Memory of the World (MoW) Code of Ethics