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ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10.jcm
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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