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Programme Priorities for UNESCO's Five Major Programmes Approved Programme and Budget for 2008-2009 (34 C/5)
EDUCATION:
Biennial sectoral priority 1:
■ Leading EFA, ensuring global coordination and providing assistance to Member States to achieve the EFA goals and education-related MDGs based on the Global Action Plan.
Biennial sectoral priority 2:
■Fostering quality education for all at all levels and in both formal and non-formal education throughout life, with particular emphasis on vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
SCIENCES:
Biennial sectoral priority 1:
■ Promoting research and capacity-building for the sound management of natural resources.
Biennial sectoral priority 2:
■ Promoting policies and strengthening human and institutional capacities in science, technology and innovation, with special emphasis on the basic sciences.
Biennial sectoral priority 3:
■ Promoting knowledge networks for disaster preparedness and mitigation and enhancing national and regional coping capacities.
SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Biennial sectoral priority 1:
■ Promoting principles, practices and ethical norms relevant for scientific and technological development.
Biennial sectoral priority 2:
■ Enhancing research-policy linkages relevant to social transformations.
Biennial sectoral priority 3:
■Contribute to the dialogue among civilizations and cultures and to a culture of peace through philosophy, the human sciences, the promotion of human rights, the fight against discrimination.
CULTURE
Biennial sectoral priority 1:
■ Promoting cultural diversity through the safeguarding of heritage in all its dimensions and enhancement of cultural expressions.
Biennial sectoral priority 2:
■ Promoting social cohesion by fostering pluralism, the dialogue of cultures and the establishment of a culture of peace.
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
Biennial sectoral priority 1:
■ Fostering free, independent and pluralistic communication and universal access to information.
Biennial sectoral priority 2:
■Promoting innovative applications of ICTs for sustainable development.
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