About the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean

The UNESCO Office for the Caribbean serves twenty Caribbean English and Dutch-Speaking Small Island Developing States to pursue peace, eradicate poverty, sustainable development and inter-cultural dialogue through its five programmes in Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, and Communication and Information.

The Member States and Associate Members of the Office's regional mandate are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saints Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr Anna Paolini is Director and Representative of the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean since July 2022.

Read her Biography here.

News from the Caribbean SIDS

Newsletter from the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean

Newsletter 8

News from August - October 2022

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Newsletter 7

News from May - July 2022

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Newsletter 6

News from March - April 2022

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Newsletter 5

News from October 2021 - January 2022

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Newsletter 4

News from June - September 2021

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Newsletter 3

News from April - May 2021

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Newsletter 2

News from February - March 2021

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Newsletter 1

News from December 2020 - January 2021

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United Nations Multi-Country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

THE ENGLISH- AND DUTCH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN 2022-2026

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Contact Us

Anna Paolini, PhD Representative in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados,
Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines & Director of the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean
+1876 630 5300
UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean
+1 876 630 5300

Programme Specialists

Nicole Bella
Senior Education Specialist
Jean-Paul Ngome Abiaga, PhD
Programme Coordinator Natural Sciences & Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Massimiliano Lombardo
Programme Specialist for Natural Sciences

Paula Istúriz Cavero
Programme Specialist for Social and Human Sciences
Yuri Peshkov
Programme Specialist for Culture
Paul Hector
Advisor for Communication and Information

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