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What is BREDA?
The UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar, better known under its French acronym
BREDA, is the largest UNESCO office in Africa. It is the most important
by the number of countries it covers, by the size of its budget, by the
number and quality of its staff and especially by the scope of its activities.
Established in 1970 to address educational
planning issues in Africa South of the Sahara, BREDA, over years, extended
its fields of action so much that it now covers not only other education
sub-sectors but deals also with other areas of competence of the Organization:
Science, Social Sciences, Culture and Communication.
Our
Mission
As a Regional Office (whose mandate covers sub-saharan
Africa), BREDA is charged with:
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Promoting, through its activities, the ideals of UNESCO
of building Peace, Democracy and Human Rights through the promotion
of the sharing and utilisation of knowledge and particularly by ensuring
that Education, Science, Culture and Communication are placed on the
top of the development agenda of African Member States;
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Systematically developing a regional overview of major
trends of UNESCO's areas of competence (Education, Science, Culture
and Communication);
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Feeding the results of such systematic studies and
regional overviews into UNESCO's Medium Term, and biennial programmes;
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Reflecting its in-depth knowledge of the needs of
African Member States in the development and execution of its own
regular and extra-budgetary activities and in its response to specific
emergencies;
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Working, as much as possible, in close cooperation
with governments, regional and international IGO's, NGO's, other UNESCO
Offices in Africa, UNESCO National Commissions, the entire UN family,
bilateral development agencies, the intellectual community and the
civil society
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