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through the Interagency Committee on Bioethics, the Interagency Task Team on the Social Dimensions
of Climate Change, the Interagency Network on Youth, and the Global Migration Group.
03021 Increased impact at country level will be sought through enhanced cooperation with the United Nations
system in the framework of Delivering as One. In contributing to Common Country Assessments
(CCA) and United Nation Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF), MP III will in particular
advocate the human rights approach to programming. Activities will also build capacities at country
level to understand and respond to ethical challenges and social transformations, as well as the role
that young people can play in the process of democracy, reconciliation and culture of peace and nonviolence.
03022 In line with UNESCO-wide efforts, MP III will target efforts to sensitize the media and identify
target audiences that can be reached through appropriate media outreach. To this end, MP III will
also promote and foster an active and informed involvement of relevant stakeholders in programme
reflection, design, delivery and assessment.
03023 Based on the achievements of the 35 C/5, and taking account of the shared and cross-cutting objectives
and modalities summarized above, MP III will structure its work along two Biennial Sectoral Priorities
and three Main Lines of Action.
Biennial sectoral priority 1: Promoting the ethics of science and technology
Main line of action 1: Supporting Member States in the development
of policies and advocacy in the ethics of science and technology,
especially bioethics
03024 Using all relevant intellectual and technical resources at its disposal, and especially international
expert bodies, such as the International Bioethics Committee (IBC), the Intergovernmental Bioethics
Committee (IGBC), the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology
(COMEST) and the UNESCO Chairs, MP III will operate at four levels, each connected to specific
Strategic Programme Objectives:
– as laboratory of ideas, by supporting prospective studies and foresight with respect to new and
emerging ethical challenges, in particular within the framework of an ethical approach to development
(SPO 8);
– as standard setter, by promoting existing normative instruments in the field of bioethics (the
Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, the International Declaration on
Human Genetic Data, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights) and science ethics
(the 1974 Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers and the 1999 Declaration on
Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge), and by exploring the possible relevance of normative
instruments in environmental ethics (SPO 6);
– by capacity-building, focusing in particular on supporting the development of bodies, institutions
and policies at national level to enable developing countries to address the ethical challenges of
science and technology (SPO 6, as well as specific contributions to SPOs 3, 5 and 7 in the respective
policy areas);
– by education and awareness-raising, to ensure that relevant audiences are familiarized both with
key ethical challenges and with the resources available to address them (SPO 6).
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