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Photo: How all actors in Education are currently held into account, Global Education Monitoring Report 2017/2018

A n n o u n c e m e n t s F i r s t

Message of the Director Dear

Colleagues

and

Partners,

This week we are preparing for the national launch of the Global Education Monitoring Report, themed: “Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments”, taking place on 28 February 2018 in Kenya. The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report series continues its assessment of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG4) and its 10 targets, as well as other related education targets in the SDG agenda. It also investigates accountability in education, analyzing how all-relevant stakeholders can provide education more effectively, efficiently and equitably. The launch will aim at informing policy makers of different approaches to accountability, share key evidence-based recommendations from the report, based on the Kenya context, and expand the GEM Report's profile among key education stakeholders.

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We are fully engaged in the United Nations Great Lakes Regional Strategic Framework (GLRSF), where we will be leading the Communications Group for the next quarter, joining forces among the UN agencies involved, to promote the impacts of UN programs implemented in the African Great Lakes Region, working on the pillars of the GLRSF: 1. Sustainable land and Resources, 2. Economic Integration, cross border trade and food and nutrition security 3. Mobility 4. Youth and adolescents 5. gender and sexual and gender-based violence 6. Justice and conflict prevention.

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You can also read more about what happened during World Radio day 2018 in East Africa, themed: Radio and Sports, as well as videos by the Kenyan Television Networkon the importance of encouraging, mentoring and inspiring more Women in Science,

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Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta C u l t u r a l H e

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ahead!

Announcements First Aid Course for Cultural Heritage in Bamako UNESCO and ICCROM organize, in November 2018, a first aid to cultural heritage in times of crisis course, in Bamako, Mali. Read the Call for Applications & Download and fill in the application, here Deadline for application: 29 March 2018 More information

UNESCO Juba Office, South Sudan, is hiring! International Consultant in the field of Communication Information. For more information, click on the link below: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/juba/about-this-office/vacancies/.The vacancy is open until 26 February 2018 (Juba time)

What happened this week Consultative meeting to prioritize UNESCO support for HIV and health education UNESCO organized a consultative meeting on priorization of the agency's technical support on HIV and health education. This was based on the SIDA funded project for young people on health education. During the meeting that brought together 32 participants, presentations on the Eastern and Southern Africa commitment and the SIDA project were made. The participants prioritized securing political commitment, curriculum review, integration of HIV indicators into National Education Management Information System and coordination as some of the areas that UNESCO should prioritize for Kenya under the SIDA project

Web News of the Week Women in Tech, UNESCO joins Nairobi Innovation Week with a Youth Mobile workshop and a Hackathon for coding UNESCO holds the 2nd Regional World Radio Day celebrations in Kampala, Uganda to reinforce capacity in the Region's Media Sector UNESCO workshop on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage opens in Eritrea

Upcoming events 23 to 24 February 2018 UIL Africa Research Project – Strategic Approach to Promote Lifelong Learning for All Workshop Kenya, Nairobi 27 to 28 February 2018: National Steering Committee meeting for UNESCO-Global Learning XPRIZE Project, Tanga- Tanzania 28 February 2018: National Launch of the Global Education Monitoring Report in Kenya, Nairobi-Kenya 26 February to 2 March 2018: Nairobi Innovation Week Women in Tech Side event, Nairobi- Kenya 28 February 2018: South Sudan Media Sector Working Group Meeting, Juba-South Sudan 28 February 2018: Equipment Grant for local radios in the South of Madagascar, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

Publications World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Global Report 2017-2018

Missions Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta Participation in the Steering Committee of UNESCO-Global Learning XPRIZE Meeting in Arusha 27 to 28 February 2018 Arusha, Tanzania Jaco Du Toit Follow-up to the Peace Building Fund project in Madagascar, 25 February to 3 March 2018 Antananarivo, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar Mika Odido Training course on Geonode and African Marine Atlas Development & National workshop on Ocean Sciences Swakopmund, Namibia: 12 to 14 March 2018

Birthdays Gideon Lilah 27 February

Tweet of the Week UNESCOEASTAFRICA Tweet of The Week: Increasing #HeritageEducation, as well as#Research, #Training, #Awareness-Raising of #IntangibleCulturalHeritage.@UnescoEast is running a project in #Eritrea to support the effective implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention, Read more! http://bit.ly/2EKJroS