Significant assistance with the Workshop was also provided by the UNESCO Office for the Pacific, Apia, Samoa.
We continue to be concerned at the damaging delays in recruiting professional staff to the UNESCO Office for the Pacific in Apia.
UNESCO: Speech to UNESCO General Conference 2009 - Bryan Gould
The village of Lelata, just outside Apia, was also ravaged by the cyclone.
BBC: Cyclone Evan rips through Samoa as Apia homes flattened
In the capital, Apia, homes were flattened and the Vaisigano River burst its banks, washing away cars, trees and other debris.
BBC: Cyclone Evan rips through Samoa as Apia homes flattened
Many Samoan settlements are coastal and both Apia and Pago Pago, the capitals respectively of Samoa and American Samoa, were deluged.
The UNESCO Office for the Pacific is located in Apia, Samoa.
New Zealand's high commissioner in Apia, Nick Hurley, said the cyclone was bigger than other tropical storms he had experienced in the region, and its strength was unexpected.
BBC: Cyclone Evan rips through Samoa as Apia homes flattened
The 31-year-olds, ranked 35 and 37 respectively, have both won tournaments this year -- the Finn winning the Apia International in Sydney in January while Melzer took the Memphis title the following month.
Among topics discussed were plans for a Pacific Consultative Meeting on Education for Sustainable Development (Apia, Samoa, 8-10 March 2006), which itself provided an occasion for Pacific ESD practitioners and experts to develop a collaborative mechanism for the UN-DESD in the Pacific islands region.
UNESCO's Office in Apia funded the original development of the Open Content Licensing for Educators, and enabled the OER Foundation to adopt an open and collaborative development process including volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons.
"The concept of free learning for all students is well aligned with UNESCO's global mission to provide education for all, which now seems imminently more doable with the mainstream adoption of OER in our formal education institutions, " said Dr Visesio Pongi, Director of the UNESCO Office in Apia.
The programme is a joint initiative of two UNESCO sectors (Education, through the Associated Schools Project network, and Natural Sciences, through the Small Islands and Indigenous Knowledge Section) in the framework of the Intersectoral Platform for Small Island Developing States, and in cooperation with the UNESCO Offices in Apia, Dar-es-Salaam, Kingston and other regions.
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