UNESCO Office Windhoek

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO Office Windhoek

Cluster Office to Angola, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland

As a specialized agency of the United Nations, UNESCO contributes to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

01-05-2013UNESCO/REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL – RFP: Hydro-meteorological Variables and Statistical Hydrology (deadline 17th of May 2013).
The 2010 – 2011 floods in Namibia caused widespread damages over seven regions in the country. Some 200 000 people were displaced with a death toll of over 90 being recorded. The President of the Republic declared a state of emergency at the end of March 2011, and various national and international partners responded in a varied manner to the call for assistance and collaboration in addressing flood management issues. UNESCO also responded to the call by sending a team of hydrologists on an exploratory mission to determine areas in which UNESCO can further collaborate with Namibia in addressing flood management. The team visited Namibia in July 2011, and presented its initial findings to the Prime Minister on 29 July 2011.
At this stage the objective is to procure the government with information and tools [data collection procedures, data collection methods, data collection tools, modeling tools, technical capacities requirements and the lack on the technical capacities noticed in the government structure] and a strategic plan for the way forward that allows the government to fix the above mentioned challenges and thus UNESCO is inviting all the experts, consulting firms to submit an offer for Consultancy Services' in accordance with the downloadable pdf solicitation document. More

17-04-2013Zimbabwe: Sub-regional worskhop on ICH strategy and capacity building
Southern African experts to discuss on the sub-regional strategy and capacity building challenges in particular; in Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 April to 2 May 2013. More

10-04-2013Namibia: rolling out the ICH capacity building strategy at the national level
Workshop at Waterberg develops national capacity of ICH trainers. More

13-02-2013Namibia Celebrates “Radio in Our Everyday Lives”
UNESCO Windhoek Office celebrated World Radio Day on the 13th February 2013 with five activities in Namibia under the theme “Radio in our everyday lives”. More

30-01-2013Culture for Development Indicator Suite
Culture and Development Indicator Suite (CDIS) is a project that aims to use methodologies to generate new cultural statistics in developing countries, analyse them in regards to the local context, and based on their findings, advocate for the creation of better cultural policies and inclusion in development strategies. UNESCO Windhoek and UNESCO Paris in collaboration with the University of Namibia (UNAM) statistics department, are hard at work in preparing for the final results of CDIS. The presentation workshop will be held on the 14 February 2013, at Nice, 2 Mozart Street, Cnr. Hosea Kutako Drive. See below the workshop programme. More

30-01-2013Periodic update on MDGF "Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Namibia"
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26-11-2012Windhoek Office prepares UNESCO Country Programming Document (UCPD) for Namibia
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23-11-2012Windhoek Office visits World Heritage in Namibia
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07-11-2012Workshop on prevention and fight against illicit traffic of cultural goods in Southern Africa
The workshop in Gaborone, Botswana ended today. More

05-11-2012Workshop on prevention and fight against illicit traffic of cultural goods in Southern Africa
The workshop "Capacity-building and awareness-raising on the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property in Southern Africa" started today in Gaborone, Botswana. More

24-10-2012First Namibia Youth Book Fair 26 to 29 October 2012 in Windhoek

“Read a Book. Make a Book. Tell a Story” More

29-06-2012Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route in Bethlehem, Palestine, inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List along with sites from Israel, Palau, Indonesia and Morocco
Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation), 29 June – New sites have been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List: Birthplace of Jesus: the Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Palestine); Site of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot/Wadi el-Mughara Caves (Israel), Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Palau), and The Cultural Landscape of Bali: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy (Indonesia), Rabat, modern capital and historic City: a shared heritage (Morocco). Inscriptions are expected to continue today and tomorrow. More

25-06-2012Namibia: Sustainable living in the desert
Deep in the Namib Desert, in a dune valley in the south of the NamibRand Nature Reserve in Namibia's Hardap region is an environmental education centre that is helping Namibians to live sustainable lifestyles. More

22-06-2012Mainstreaming Information and Communication Technologies into the Namibian education system
UNESCO in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Commonwealth of Learning is bringing together stakeholders in ICT and Education in Namibia for a two day workshop to emphasize the power of ICT Policies in transforming education in Windhoek from 25 to 26 June 2012. More

18-06-2012Conference: “Indigenous Education in a Changing World” 19-21, June 2012, Windhoek Country Club Resort, Windhoek
There are an estimated 370 million indigenous people in the world, representing approximately 5% of the total world population. Indigenous people account for more than 5,000 languages in over 70 countries on six continents; i.e. nearly 75% of all languages believed to exist. Despite two UN decades on indigenous people, the “International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004)” and the “Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2005-2014)”, these groups continue to face serious discrimination in terms of access to basic social services, including education and healthcare. A great number are marginalized and live in precarious conditions, often due to forced displacement and the impacts of globalization and climate change. More

18-06-2012Call for proposals to carry out a survey on listeners's needs in Lesotho
UNESCO, with support from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), a three-year project entitled “Empowering local radios with ICTs” in a radio station in Lesotho. More

06-06-2012Call for nominations – UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2012
Initially established in 1967, these Prizes are currently sponsored by the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, and they are composed of the two UNESCO Confucius Prizes for Literacy and the two UNESCO King-Sejong Literacy Prizes. They are awarded each year to individuals, governments and non-governmental organizations in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the promotion of literacy, and their meritorious efforts in this regard. More

UNESCO Office Windhoek Biennium Report 2010 - 2011 UNESCO Office Windhoek
[Text] Results of the UNESCO Office Windhoek Biennium 2010 - 2011 application/pdf

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