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.
Main themes
- Assessment for learning outcomes
- 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
- Education research and foresight
- Futures of Education initiative
- 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 (Technical and vocational education and training)
- Teachers
- Textbook development
- 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
Selected projects
Capacity development
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)
Global citizenship education
- Education as a tool to prevent violent extremism
- Promoting the rule of law through global citizenship education
Higher education
-
Global Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications
- 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
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