As a first series of the Workshops, two events will be held.  The first one on Understanding Conservation of Cultural Heritage will take place on 25 November to be organized jointly with Aga Khan Trust for Culture India in co-operation with Municipal Administration and Urban Development of Hyderabad.  The second one, on Engaging Local Communities: Towards Inclusive and Community Participatory Heritage Management, will be held on 26 November, to be organized in co-operation with the civil society such as INTACH and with the support of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Cooperation. The workshop will be conducted as part of the UNESCO/Republic of Korea FIT hosted in the World Heritage Centre, implemented by UNESCO New Delhi. Both workshops will highlight the essence of the World Heritage Convention which is people centred heritage conservation and management advocate that the role that can be played by both cultural heritage and local communities in society.   

  To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, and to celebrate how his ideas and teachings have shaped the lives of people in India and around the world, UNESCO New Delhi and Doordarshan Television are jointly organizing a one-hour programme called ‘The Mahatma Lives’ / ‘Bapu Zinda Hai’. It will be telecast on 1 and 2 October 2019 (10 pm onwards) across India on Doordarshan News and DD India.

A regional consultation to develop an International Guidance Framework for Professional Teaching Standards with a focus on Asia and the Pacific region will be held in New Delhi from 9 to 11 October 2019. This consultation will be a joint collaboration between UNESCO, Ministry of Human Resource Development, National Coalition for Education and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. The International Framework hopes to achieve three goals, the first of them being to reach a common understanding of teaching and teacher quality. Secondly, it hopes to assure the quality of teacher education by describing competency levels for the different stages in a teacher’s career and finally, it hopes to spell out governance and accountability mechanisms in order to ensure that quality teacher education is actually provided. The main purpose of the regional consultation is to gather inputs from key education stakeholders and discuss the state of implementation of teaching standards in different regions and countries. These stakeholders will be asked to review the evolving guidance framework and to make recommendations for local adaptations of it. The attendees of the consultation will include teachers, teacher organizations, education planners, teaching regulatory councils, policymakers and researchers. Following the regional consultation, a group of international experts will review the input generated and further refine the international framework.

The five-day workshop aims enhance the capacity of Community Learning Centres (CLC) management and functions in an innovative way. The training will also strengthen CLCs’ understanding towards SDGs and lifelong learning At the end of the workshop, participants are expected to have a clear idea about CLCs' roles and responsibilities in the federal context and foster inclusiveness and increase community participation in activities.