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External Relations and Public InformationDivision of Relations with Organizations and PartnershipsParticipation Programme and Fellowships Section

  Trends in UNESCO Fellowships Programmes

 

 

Decrease in Regular Budget Funding

Activities and Staff:

(From Division to Section to a Unit in a Section)

Reduction in fellowships through UNESCO (WB, UNDP)

Increase of extrabudgetary funding through cost-sharing

Arrangements with interested donors (Res. Of G.C.)

Governments, Academic/Research Institutions,

Foundations

Private Sector

Risk of disappearance of long-duration studies

Contribution of the emerging economies in Asia

(China, Republic of Korea, India).

South-South Cooperation

Immense needs to:

update knowledge and skills in all UNESCO fields of competence

Education, Science, Culture, Information and Communication

necessitate continuous training and retraining

and intellectual solidarity with developing countries

through fellowships for priority groups

LDCs

Africa

Women (gender equality) and Youth

In particular: immense needs to:

Retrain teachers, educators and trainers

(for the first time in history, students may be more informed than

Teachers due to:

Recent tremendous changes in knowledge transmission;

The role of teachers had drastically changed (ICTs)

From source of knowledge to orientation and guiding

Increase in the demand of impact evaluation and visibility

(Efficiency with risk of publicity)

For this ethical reason, some Member States have objections to

cooperation with the private sector

Contribution of Western Europe and North America is

limited to receiving fellows in host academic institutions;

Some of them proposed (DR) deleting Fellowships from

Programme and Budget

Most of the budget allocated to fellowships is spent in

these countries (Tuition fees, international travel,

accommodation).

The need to persuade Member States to include

fellowships in their priorities

Finally

Four Positive Trends:

Cost-Shring Arrangements

South-South Cooperation

Contribution of the Private Sector

Impact evaluation

2008 -2009 ERI/RPO/PPF Fellowship Implementations

Programme RP & Co-SponsoredNo. of

beneficiariesRP Funds

FIT/Extra Budgetary Funds

Value of Contributions-

in-kindTotal $ Value

(RP) Individual Request- UNESCO Fellowships Programme in support of Programme Priorities (2008-2009)

CL/3840 49 674 530     674 530

Co-Sponsored Fellowships (Travel Grants - Financed under RP): REP. OF KOREA 20 52 680   260 000 312 680             

Total no. of awards = 187 ISRAEL-MASHAV 72 144 591   488 200 632 791

Total value (RP fund) = US $405 157

ISRAEL - Post Doc. Studies in Science & Technology

1     15 000 15 000

POLAND 17 42 256   540 000 582 256

Total value of Contributions-in-kind = US $3 184 800 CZECH REPUBLIC 6 5 800   605 000 610 800

PEOPLE'S REP. OF CHINA 51 125 210   1 102 400 1 227 610

 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 20 34 620   174 200 208 820

Sub Total Co-Sponsored Fellowships   187 405 157   3 184 800 3 589 957

Co-Sponsored Fellowships (Funds-in-trust-FIT)            

UNESCO/SAUDI ARABIA - Enhancing Palestinian Human Capital   67   100 000   100 000

UNESCO/KEIZO OBUCHI (FIT)   40   400 000   400 000

UNESCO/L'OREAL Co-Sponsored Fellowships (FIT)            

2007 (Phase II) →   15   300 000   300 000

2008 Award Ceremony →   15   18 116   18 116

2008 (Phase I) →   15   300 000   300 000

2008 (Phase II) →   13   260 000   260 000

2009 Award Ceremony →   15   19 147   19 147

2009 (Phase I) →   15   300 000   300 000

Sub Total Funds -in-Trust (FIT)   195   1 697 263   1 697 263

Grand Total   431 1 079 687 1 697 263 3 184 800 5 961 750

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