Welcome to UNESCO Phnom Penh Office!

1. Welcome to UNESCO Phnom Penh Office! 3 March 2012

2. Reestablished: December 1991 Covers: all Thematic areas Functions: Advocacy. Normative action. Capacity-building. Initiation and implementation of programmes. Catalyst for partnership and cooperation: donor coordination. Staff: 4 International staff 25-30 National staff 5-10 Volunteers, Consultants UNESCO Office in Phnom Penh

3. Education Natural Sciences Social and Human Sciences Culture Communication and Information UNESCOThematic Areas

4. Education • Monitoring progress and achievements of Education for All (EFA) and Education related MDGs. (eg. annual EFA Global Monitoring Report as well as annual Global Action Week for EFA). • Support inclusive education to promote rights based approach to quality education for disadvantaged, ethnic and marginalized groups, physically challenged learners. • Improving quality of learning through integration of gender, HIV, life-skills, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into the curriculum and teaching-learning programs • Strengthening individual and institutional capacities in sector-wide evidence-based education planning, management and monitoring, through institutional trainings, participation in regional and international workshops and seminars and through direct technical assistance

5. Education • Strengthening the capacities of literacy and non-formal education sub-sector in Cambodia to improve adult literacy and skills development for adults to reduce poverty • Improving teacher support systems/mechanisms for better quality of teaching and learning • Enhancing coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders on Technical and Vocational Education and Training • Improving quality assurance and accreditation in higher education • Ensuring Education Sector Coordination and Cooperation among the Development Partners and MoEYS

6. Culture • Tangible • Intangible • Norms Standard Setting • Museum • ICC

7. Phnom Penh Office

8. The International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguard and Development of the Historic of Angkor and related UNESCO projects Phnom Penh Office Tangible Cultural Heritage

9. ICC Angkor International Co-ordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor Under the Co-Chairmanships of France and Japan and in close collaboration with the Royal Government of Cambodia and UNESCO which provides the Secretariat, annually, two meetings are organized, One technical and One Plenary. Before each meeting, Experts for Conservation and Sustainable Development evaluate the situation of the sites and projects designated by the Secretariat and APSARA. A complete report is produced by the Secretariat after each session, which contains the report of the experts and the international teams.

10. Japan APSARA Safeguarding Angkor J A S A - UNESCO In close collaboration between UNESCO Phnom Penh, JASA is carrying out the restoration of the Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom.

11. J A S A Works in the field Experts identify the stones and give them a number in order to put them in the right place. Cleaning of stones Stone by stone, the workers restore the temple

12. Angkor - Italy The Temple of Angkor Wat is facing urgent problems of structural stability due mainly to water and humidity factors as well as intrinsic factors of the used construction materiel.

13. Angkor - Australia This project proposes the development of a comprehensive framework for heritage management at Angkor, addressing community concerns and traditions as well as the conservation of monuments and archeological sites and the surrounding cultural landscape. It aims to achieve rural poverty alleviation, to improve governance, ecological and environmental sustainability, and to ensure recognition and long-term conservation of cultural assets and national economic development.

14. Srah Srang – Jet Tours In close collaboration with UNESCO Office in Phnom Penh, the APSARA National Authority will set up a technical Working Group and the restoration will start in November 2008. This project will also contribute to showcasing the Complex, which is historically related to the temple of Banteay Kdei, and its magnificent surrounding landscape.

15. PREAH VIHEAR Phnom Penh Office • Provide technical assistance to the ANPV; • Coordinate technical missions to the site; • Ensure the preservation of the site as WHS;

16. Fighting against the illicit trafficking of cultural property Phnom Penh Office • Research and publication of missing Khmer cultural objects, with the National Museum, EFEO and ICOM.

17. Intangible Cultural Heritage

18. Living Human Treasures Establishing Living Human Treasures System in Cambodia The Conference to promote the procedures of Living Human Treasures System in Cambodia took place at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts on 13 November 2007 and was chaired by Prince Sisowath Kolachat, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. • This opening ceremony for training session of Living Human Treasures Project took place at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts on 19 November 2007 and was chaired by H.E. Mr. Veng Sereyvuth, Senior Minister, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts

19. Sbek Thom Project • Revitalization of Sbek Thom • a. Research and publication • b. Sbek Thom Festival • 2. Schedule of regular performance • a. Regular Performances of provincial troupes • b. One line the schedule of regular performance • 3. Collaboration with A Japanese University in research and documentation on Khmer dance • 4. Assist the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts to prepare documents for Chapei and Lakhaon Khol registration in the list of Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

20. Phnom Penh Office MDG-F • With the contribution of the Government of Spain, this Creative Support Programme are being implemented by four joint UN agencies: UNESCO-UNDP-ILO-FAO • Identification cultural products; • Training, capacity building; • Establishment of market chain; • publication • Construction of Cultural Center

21. The Ratanakiri Cultural Centerdedicated to Indigenous populations Ratanakiri Ratanakiri - Mondolkiri - Preah Vihear

22. Phnom Penh Office The Preliminary Cartographie of Cultural Underwater Heritage in Cambodia

23. COMMUNICATION and INFORMATION • World PressFreedom Day • Access to Information • Press Council of Cambodia • Journalist Training • IPDC • Cambodia Communication Institute (CCI) • Community Radio Programme • DocumentaryHeritage

24. Phnom Penh Office UNESCO ‘s BiosphereProgram

25. What are the biosphere reserve zones? Biosphere reserves are organized into 3 interrelated zones: 1. the core area 2. the buffer zone 3. the transition area Only the core area requires legal protection and hence can correspond to an existing protected area such as a nature reserve or a national park. This zonation scheme is applied in many different ways in the real world to accommodate geographical conditions, socio-cultural settings, available legal protection measures and local constraints. This flexibility can be used creatively and is one of the strongest points of the biosphere reserve concept, facilitating the integration of protected areas into the wider landscape. Phnom Penh Office

26. Tonle Sap Biosphere nomination The Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve is a unique ecological phenomenon surrounding the Tonle Sap or Great Lake of Cambodia. In 1997, it was successfully nominated as a UNESCOBiosphere Reserve, in view of its exceptional ecological, economic, social and cultural value. Phnom Penh Office

27. Memory of the World • Tuol Sleng Museum • 31 July 2009 inscribed as MoW • Repairing physical structures • Reorganizing the visitors’ circuit • Preserving the archives

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