During the World Economic Forum, the Director-General will attend several high-profile sessions on the global development outlook and the post-2015 agenda, as well as on urban development and bolstering ocean resilience.
How water cooperation can best contribute to the Global Agenda on Sustainable Development for the post-2015 era so as to fulfill the needs of all societies was the subject of Monday's kick-off events for the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation.
The briefing was organised in advance of the Global Thematic Consultation on Education in the post 2015 Development Agenda that will be held in Dakar, Senegal on 18-19 March 2013.
It was agreed that UNESCO and the World Bank would work together on the Education First initiative, on strengthening the quality of education, and on the Post 2015 UN Development Agenda.
Irina Bokova will also take part in a briefing on the Global Thematic Consultation on Education in the Post 2015 Development Agenda, at the invitation of the permanent Delegations of the Republic of Senegal and Canada, where she is invited as a keynote speaker to share lessons on education since 2000.
It will also discuss the main messages of the thematic consultation on water within the post-2015 development agenda to the UN High-level Panel.
The goal of the project is to set up a platform for research-policy dialogues on gender equality in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 framework, as well as on wider regional gender equality related issues.
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On 5 March, the Director-General also gave the keynote speech to the briefing on the Global Thematic Consultation on Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, organised by the Permanent Delegates of the Republic of Senegal and Canada.
And since water cooperation is a necessary ingredient for all aspects of development, the Day will also focus on the follow-up to be taken in the context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda and how water cooperation contributes to the success of such follow-up.
We further welcomed the establishment of the United Nations Secretary-General High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post 2015 Development Agenda, of which the President of Indonesia is one of the Co-Chairs as representation of the region as well as the developing world.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Two youth representatives presented recommendations on young people's ideas for the post-2015 development agenda as well as their perspectives on a multi-sectoral response to young people's issues.
Mr Dendev Badarch, the Director of the Moscow office informed the participants about the role of UNESCO in the country level consultations in Armenia and the Republic of Moldova on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Jordan was one of the 6 Arab countries and 50 countries from around the world selected to conduct consultations on the global post-2015 development agenda.
The two organizations were created in the 1940s to oversee post-World War II economic development, with the IMF initially focussing on currency and financial considerations and the World Bank helping to pay for infrastructure in emerging economies.
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He concluded by charting some of the priorities that might figure on the post-2015 international agenda for educational development.
Mohammed, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning and Assistant Secretary-General, and Professor W. John Morgan, UNESCO Chair at the University of Nottingham.
We, therefore, agreed to support the work of the United Nations Secretary-General High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post 2015 Development Agenda.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.
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