Dakar

The Dakar Office was originally created in 1970 to address educational planning in sub-Saharan Africa.The Office has gradually extended its activities to other areas of educational development, eventually covering the whole of the education system as well as other areas of UNESCO's competencies (Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information).Until 2014, the office functioned as the Regional Office for Education, coordinating UNESCO's education program throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, today it is a regional office covering seven West African countries ( Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger and Senegal)