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ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10. jcm

External Relations and Public Information Division of Relations with Organizations and Partnerships Participation Programme and Fellowships Section. ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10. jcm. UNESCO Experience in Fellowships. Trends in UNESCO Fellowships Programmes. Decrease in Regular Budget Funding

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ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10. jcm

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  1. External Relations and Public Information Division of Relations with Organizations and Partnerships Participation Programme and Fellowships Section ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10.jcm

  2. UNESCO Experience in Fellowships Trends in UNESCO Fellowships Programmes

  3. Decrease in Regular Budget Funding Activities and Staff: (From Division to Section to a Unit in a Section) Reduction in fellowships through UNESCO (WB, UNDP)

  4. Increase of extrabudgetary funding through cost-sharing Arrangements with interested donors (Res. Of G.C.) Governments, Academic/Research Institutions, Foundations Private Sector Risk of disappearance of long-duration studies

  5. Contribution of the emerging economies in Asia (China, Republic of Korea, India). South-South Cooperation

  6. Immense needs to: update knowledge and skills in all UNESCO fields of competence Education, Science, Culture, Information and Communication necessitate continuous training and retraining and intellectual solidarity with developing countries through fellowships for priority groups LDCs Africa Women (gender equality) and Youth

  7. In particular: immense needs to: Retrain teachers, educators and trainers (for the first time in history, students may be more informed than Teachers due to: Recent tremendous changes in knowledge transmission; The role of teachers had drastically changed (ICTs) From source of knowledge to orientation and guiding

  8. Increase in the demand of impact evaluation and visibility • (Efficiency with risk ofpublicity) • For this ethical reason, some Member States have objections to • cooperation with the private sector

  9. Contribution of Western Europe and North America is limited to receiving fellows in host academic institutions; Some of them proposed (DR) deleting Fellowships from Programme and Budget Most of the budget allocated to fellowships is spent in these countries (Tuition fees, international travel, accommodation). The need to persuade Member States to include fellowships in their priorities

  10. Finally Four Positive Trends: Cost-Shring Arrangements South-South Cooperation Contribution of the Private Sector Impact evaluation

  11. 2008 -2009 ERI/RPO/PPF Fellowship Implementations

  12. Thank you

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