About UNESCO Kathmandu

Last update:22 April 2025

The UNESCO Office in Kathmandu was established in 1998. Since then, the Office has grown into an established programme and advocacy agency in UNESCO's fields of competence, namely education, sciences, culture, communication and information, with the aim to contributing to building peace, alleviating poverty, and fostering sustainable development and intercultural dialogue.

UNESCO works to attain quality education for all, focusing on women empowerment and literacy, to rehabilitate cultural heritage after the earthquake, promote cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, to mobilize scientific knowledge, to promote press freedom, freedom of expression, media development and to advocate for the rights and safety of journalists.

To achieve these objectives, UNESCO actively participates in the work of the UN Country Team in Nepal and closely cooperates with other development partners in the country.

UNESCO Country Strategy for Nepal

The theme of UNESCO’s 2023-2027 Country Strategy is Fostering Agency and Inclusion, which alludes to the clear direction from the Nepali government for the UN to support inclusion and effective federalism in the country as top priorities. At the same time, it also reflects the need for UNESCO to promote Nepal’s own agency and inclusion in regional and international mechanisms and discussions that the Organization leads or is associated to.