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UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok Snapshots 2024
With a broad mandate spanning education, culture, the sciences, and communication—and a presence across 46 National Commissions and three Associate Members—it is no surprise that even the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok’s closest partners sometimes ask: What exactly does the office do on a day-to-day basis?
The answer comes into focus in our newly released Snapshots 2024 report.
Set against the backdrop of the UN Summit of the Future and global frameworks like the Pact for the Future and Global Digital Compact, the report shows how UNESCO Bangkok 'supported countries across the region in turning these global commitments into tangible action,' writes Regional Director Soohyun Kim in her foreword. 'From fostering inclusive and ethical digital transformation to safeguarding cultural heritage and strengthening education systems, our initiatives in 2024 have helped shape policies, empower communities, and build regional momentum for sustainable development.'
Initiatives featured in the report include our work with Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam to launch the AI Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM); support for the education of 14,000 migrant children from Myanmar in Thailand; efforts to safeguard Indigenous knowledge systems, such as the tsunami early warning traditions of the Moken people; and actions to protect press freedom, including training judges, and prosecutors to recognize legal harassment of journalists.
The report also highlights UNESCO Bangkok’s role in the UN’s regional architecture for Asia and the Pacific, where it serves as co-chair of the Issue-Based Coalition on Digital Transformation, the Learning and Education 2030+ Networking Group, and the Oceans and Blue Economy Networking Group. Through these platforms, the office has helped drive regional collaboration, from advancing digital inclusion and education reform to bringing together 1,200 stakeholders from 40 countries to shape marine spatial planning and sustainable ocean management.
Explore Snapshots 2024 to see these stories and many more in action.
Publications and resources:
- 2023 Asia-Pacific Regional Global Citizenship Education (GCED): network activities summary report
- Accelerating actions: Transforming the what and how of learning for a sustainable future
- Asia-Pacific Education 2030: SDG 4 Midterm Review
- Asia-Pacific Launch: Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights & Sustainable Development
- Empowering minds: Highlights from a round table on Generative AI and Education in Asia-Pacific
- Fostering a Culture of Lifelong Learning in the Digital Era
- Global education monitoring report 2023, Southeast Asia: technology in education: a tool on whose terms? Summary (English, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Myanmar, Tetum, Thai, Vietnamese)
- Greening Education Partnership: getting every learner climate-ready
- Guidance for the classroom-based assessment of multilingual learners: assessing languages, literacies and learning across the curriculum
- Happy schools guide and toolkit: a resource for happiness, learners’ well-being and social and emotional learning in the Asia-Pacific Region (Arabic)
- Innovative Solutions for Learning Recovery in the Asia-Pacific Region
- #EndViolence & #StopBullying speech competition and intergenerational dialogue: , , , and
- International Day of the Girl video series: , , , , , , and
- Project brief note: Building resilience through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Project brief note: Addressing students’ learning gaps to ensure quality learning for all children and prevent drop-out in Asia-Pacific
- SDG 4 scorecard: progress report on national benchmarks in Asia and the Pacific
- Seeds of change: Embracing climate change education for young learners in Asia-Pacific
- Small language models (SLMs): A cheaper, greener route into AI
- Supporting schools’ and teachers’ use of assessment to inform learning of all students
- Time to address today’s learning crisis
- TVET infuses a much-needed dose of relevance into education
- Unlocking education’s potential: First language as a key to accelerating foundational learning
- Guidance and toolkit for impact assessments in a world heritage context (Lao)
- Highlights from the Integrating Living Heritage workshop in Nan Old City, Thailand
- Resonant Heritage: Revisiting the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Seminar: Pattaya & Sustainable Festival and Event Tourism: Exploring Strategies for Growth and Development
- Seminar: Sustainable Gastronomical Experience in UNESCO Locales
- Thailand’s forgotten palace: Phra Racha Wang Derm, Bangkok
- Webinar: Harnessing Digital Tools for Greater Community Involvement in the Tourism Narrative
- Building resilience: disaster risk management for documentary heritage and digital archives; training toolkit
- Photographic reminiscences: Thailand’s Royal Photographic Glass Plate Negatives and Original Prints Collection
- Preserving documentary heritage of the Mekong region: Thailand’s National Collection of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts of Phra That Phanom Chronicle
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage video series: , and
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