UNESCO

13. Highlights of partnerships signed in 2015
JANUARY
OPEC Fund for International Development
(OFID) signed agreement for enhancing
primary teacher and head teacher education
in Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia and
Uganda. (US $1 million)
Germany signed agreement for the UNESCO-
UNEVOC International Centre for Technical
Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
(€2.3 million)
United Nations Office for the Coordination
of the Humanitarian affairs (UNOCHA)
and Saudi Trust Fund for Iraq supported
providing access to quality education to
adolescents and young adults in conflictaffected
areas in Iraq. (US $1.9 million)
UN Peacebuilding Fund supported the
project La Paix est la voie du Développement
in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(US $0.5 million)
Global Environmental Facility Agency
(GEF) under UNDP contributed to the
International Waters: Learning Exchange and
Resource Network, and Strengthening Global
Governance of Large Marine Ecosystems and
Their Coasts Programmes. (US $ 7.5 million)
Malaysia signed up to five projects for
implementation in Asia in the areas of
education, the sciences and culture.
(US $1.2 million)
European Union supported the Journalism
and Media Project in Gambia. (€0.8 million)
FEBRUARY
Canada signed agreement on the 2015
International Day of Commemoration in
Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
(CAD 0.1 million)
Monaco signed the Framework Agreement
for Cooperation. (€0.2 million)
European Union contributed to the
Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated
Atlantic Ocean Observing System – Atlantos
Project. (€0.7 million)
MARCH
Canada signed agreement in support
of the EFA Global Monitoring Report.
(CAD 0.9 million)
Japan signed agreements to support four
specific packages – Bridging urgently the
gaps in secondary schooling for girls of
Internally Displaced Person communities in
Iraq; Expanding secondary education for Syrian
refugees in Iraq; Preventive conservation of
Iraq’s museum collections and cultural heritage
sites at imminent risk; and Urgent capacity
development for managing natural disaster
risks of flash floods in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan
and Sudan. (US $5 million)
Norway signed the Programme Cooperation
Agreement. (NOK 85.5 million)
Qatar Development Fund signed agreement
in support of the protection of cultural and
natural heritage in emergency situations.
(US $0.9 million)
Spain contributed to the project Enhancing
oceanography capacities on the Canary
Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) in
Western Africa countries. (US $0.2 million)
UN Peacebuilding Fund supported the
Programme prioritaire d'appui aux initiatives
de prévention de conflits et de consolidation
de la paix en Moyenne Guinée et en Guinée
forestière. (US $0.3 million)
Republic of Korea signed agreement for
the project Creative industries development
for the diversity of cultural expressions –
Strengthening the sustainability of creative
industry in Mongolia, Viet Nam and Uganda.
(US $0.4 million)
Malaysia supported two projects for
implementation in Asia in the area of science.
(US $0.7 million)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
supported the Marine Spatial Planning of
the International Oceanographic Committee.
(US $0.5 million)
APRIL
World Bank signed agreement for the
Renforcement des Systèmes d'Information
et Cartographie des écoles en République
démocratique du Congo – Programme Cap
Education for All (EFA). (US $0.2 million)
France signed agreement on the
Revitalization of cultural institutions and
services in flood affected municipalities of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. (€1 million)
Sweden gave additional support to the
project Local Development through the
Rehabilitation and Revitalization of the
Historic Built Environment in Palestine.
(SEK24 million)
Republic of Korea signed two agreements
for Developing Regional Quality Tools to
Facilitate the Cross-Border Mobility of
Students in Asia and the Pacific, and for
Promoting intercultural dialogue and a
culture of peace in South-East Asia through
shared histories. (US $2 million)
Malaysia signed up to two projects for
implementation in Asia in the area of
education. (US $0.4 million)
European Union (EU) signed two
agreements for More Education, Less Risk:
Strengthening disaster risk reduction
and resilience through education; and for
Knowledge, Assessment, and Management
for AQUATIC Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services across EU policies – AQUACROSS.
(€1.6 million)
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