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Issue 49 30 October to 3 November 2017

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Message of the Director

Dear Colleagues and Partners,

This week I attended the 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference in

Paris France. UNESCO’s General Conference brings together all of the

Organization’s 195 Member States from 30 October to 14 November 2017 which

will determine the Organization’s budget and the direction of its programmes and

activities for the next two years. Several events were organized, such as

UNESCO’s Leaders Forum on the theme of Sustainable Development and

UNESCO’s Role in the Multilateral System along with Ministerial round tables

and plenary political debates where heads of delegations from member states

shared their countries interventions in the field of competences of UNESCO while

welcoming another woman Mme Azoulay to the helm of the organization.

On 10 November 2017, delegates will pay tribute to outgoing Director-General

Irina Bokova. I would like to join others in paying tribute to Ms Irina Bokova as

she has shown the way for other ladies to climb the ladder of success to the very

top of UN agencies. She championed without fear the agenda of building together

with member states a world, which believes and embraces unity in diversity.

Preparation for the regional retreat from 22 to 24 November 2017 are in full

planning. We are looking forward in exchanging views, reviewing activities and

prioritizing interventions to move forward with the next biennium work on SDGs

and Agenda 2063.

On the last quarter of 2017, we are also planning two major events, one to

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commemorate the International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists

(13 to 14 November 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya), and the second one, an

intercontinental Education for Sustainable Development technical workshop from

(7 to 9 December 2017) also in Nairobi Kenya.

I look forward to your participation in these events and wish you a fruitful week.

Ann Therese Ndong Jatta

Announcements

Join free 6 weeks course on "Digital Dividends" by the World Bank Group

Join the free 6-weeks online Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Digital

Dividends", starting from 7 November and ending on 9 December 19, 2017. To

enroll, click here. It is a fun learning activity; it requires 1 or 2 hours of your time,

per week. This is a course free of charge offered by the World Bank Group, to the

benefit of the Digital development community (external).

Enroll in the MOOC International and African Legal Framework on

Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Safety of Journalists

If you are a judge, a blogger, a judicial officer, a prosecutor, a parliamentarian, a

journalist, a law student, an internet user, and you wish to learn more about the

right to freedom of expression, in legal frameworks, challenges to free speech in

the digital age, access to information and the safety of journalists, especially in

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African context, enroll in the Massive Open Online Course, presented by the

Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and UNESCO.

Click here to enroll, course goes from 13 November to 18 December 2017

Visit the exhibition of Roads to Independence: The African Liberation

Heritage at the National Museum of Tanzania!

Do not miss the new exhibition

on the Roads to Independence:

The African Liberation Heritage

presents archival materials on

pre-independence times, African

liberation struggles and the role

of Tanzania in the African

Liberation movement.

Venue: National Museum of

Tanzania

from: 27 October to 20

November 2017

from 9 to 6pm

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Events of the week

United Nations Country Team and Senior Management Team meeting

United Nations System in Djibouti

6 November 2017

2nd phase of Moodle Training for the University of Rwanda Staff

Kigali, Rwanda

6 to 8 November 2017

Biodiversity Taxonomic Training: Terrestrial Insect Identification Training

in Rwanda

6 to 9 November 2016,

Huye, Rwanda

ICT capacity building workshop for tutors from 11 Science and

Mathematics Teachers Colleges

6 to 10 November 2017

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Joint Workshop for Journalists on ICTs for Sustainability of Community

Radios in Kenya

13 to 15 November 2017

Isiolo County, Kenya

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News of the week

International Scientific Committee launches Indentured Labour Route Project

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Celebrating African Heroes: An Exhibition on Tanzania and the Liberation

Struggles launched at the National Museum of Tanzania-House of Culture

Training workshop on conceiving and creating Open Educational

Resources in Djibouti

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Missions

Lydiah Gachungi

Africa Information Day Celebrations

Kigali, Rwanda

6 to 8 November 2017

Jayakumar Ramasamy

Representation of the Director of the UNESCO Office for Eastern Africa at

the UNESCO Office in Dar es Salaam

6 to 10 November 2017

Alice Ochanda

Orientation and Skills Training for United Nations Development Group for

Eastern and Southern Africa (R-UNDG ESA)

& Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) Africa Cluster 5 on Gender

Equality & Women Empowerment

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

6 to 10 November 2017 & 14 to 15 November 2017

Rahel Teferra-Belay

Orientation and Skills Training for United Nations Development Group for

Eastern and Southern Africa (R-UNDG ESA)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

6 to 10 November 2017

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Mika Odido

SA Agulhas II Regional Cruise from Durban, South Africa to Dar es Salaam,

Tanzania and back to Durban, with the purpose of engaging the international

scientific community in collaborative oceanographic and atmospheric research,

from coastal environments to the deep sea.

What the Press says about us

International Day on Ending Impunity on Crimes Against Journalists,

2 November 2017

Kenya Television Network (KTN) Show, Guest Jaco Du Toit, Regional Advisor

for Communication and Information at the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern

Africa, watch the TV programme, here

Kenyans need more than fact-checking tips to resist misinformation, Source:

Columbia Journalism review

Tanzania: Ngorongoro Now Picked New Global Geopark, Source:

AllAfrica.com

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Meetings

UN Women 16 days of activism against violence against women

Planning meeting , 2 November 2017

UN Women in Kenya is leading activities and planning events, debates with media

and the public to kick off the 16 days of activism against violence against women

campaign, starting on 25 November 2017 until 10 December 2017. The 16 days

aims to raise awareness of the issue of violence against women and girls around

the world by actively speaking about it, with the objective to end all sorts of

violence. Debates and sessions on women participation in politics, gender and

environment, girls and tech hubs are planned. UNESCO will engage in online

social media messages and awareness-raising. UN agencies involved are UN

Habitat, UN Environment and the United Nations Information Centre in Nairobi

to sensitize about this importance issue. UNESCO will attend weekly meetings at

the UN complex in Nairobi.

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Publications

Accountability practices and

policies in Rwanda's education

system

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The State of accountability in

education sector in Tanzania: the

case of primary education

development program

Outcome Document The

Mauritius Call for Universal

Access to Information to

Overcome Divides and Achieve

the Sustainable Development Goals

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Videos

Entrepreneurs and innovators are

coming together: Improving

innovation policies across the

African Continent, learn more on

I4Policy.org, Video here

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UNESCO Days and Public Holidays

National and African Day of Youth

1 November 2017

International Day to end Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

2 November

World Day of Romani Language ( 38 C/65)

5 November

Grandparents' Day South Sudan

12 November

Birthdays

Saba Bokhari

6 November

Scheherazade Feddal

21 November 2017

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Inspiration of the Week

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