The “Online Roundtable Discussion on Open Science in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean” aims to promote the sharing of relevant ideas and views to feed into UNESCO’s Regional Consultation for Latin America and the Caribbean on the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which will be held on September 23, 2020.  The Roundtable will provide a platform to provide inputs from scientists, science donors, policy makers, innovators, publishers and other concerned stakeholders to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.  To advance the Open Science discussion in the global context, it is important to take stock of the different regional perspectives. The virtual roundtable in the Caribbean and the Online regional consultation for Latin America and the Caribbean are part of a series of regional consultations aimed at building a global consensus on Open Science.  

The course is designed as an introductory course in practical guiding skills and is also suitable for guides who are already competent in local knowledge but wish to improve their practical guiding skills.

We invite you to participate in this course  "Water, Sanitation and waste technologies".The aim is to train professionals, technicians, those responsible for operation and maintenance, service personnel and other stakeholders involved in water and sanitation issues in health facilities, in appropiate water, sanitation and hygiene technologies in the face of the COVID-19 emergency. This online course is co-organized with WHO Americas, PAHO and AIDIS

Within the framework of marking the International Literacy Day (ILD) 2020, the UNESCO Regional Office Abuja is organizing two virtual regional workshops on the importance of innovative youth and adult literacy programs in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond and on the contextualization of the UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy in countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The workshops will be organized in collaboration with UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA), with support of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Hamburg and the UNESCO Regional Offices in Dakar, Harare, Nairobi and Yaoundé. The webinars will provide an opportunity for UNESCO to facilitate policy discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on youth and adult literacy and to share the Strategy with focal persons responsible for literacy in the countries of the region with a view to supporting them in the domestication and implementation of the strategy at country level.

The Bureau of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict  is composted of six members. 

Session 2. Droughts in South America Occurrence, consequences, progress and strategies The impacts of droughts have been and still are considerable on the well-being of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting their health, economy, food and even social and political stability.For these reasons, the coordination of the G-WADI programme in Latin America and the Caribbean, carried out by the CAZALAC centre (category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO), and the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme of UNESCO in the Latin American and Caribbean region, have defined the realization of a cycle of webinars called "Droughts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Description and Progress", consisting of 4 sessions. Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NhHoISDiSymIi2IHl8Owmw

We invite you to participate in this course  "Water, Sanitation and waste technologies".The aim is to train professionals, technicians, those responsible for operation and maintenance, service personnel and other stakeholders involved in water and sanitation issues in health facilities, in appropiate water, sanitation and hygiene technologies in the face of the COVID-19 emergency. This online course is co-organized with WHO Americas, PAHO and AIDIS.