Zone d'identification
Type d'entité
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
UNESCO Bangkok Office
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions
- Principal Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
Numéro d'immatriculation des collectivités
Zone de description
Dates d’existence
Since 1961
Historique
The UNESCO office in Bangkok was established in 1961 as the Asian Regional Office for Primary and Compulsory Education. The Office was later extended to cover all divisions of the education sector and the countries of the Pacific region.
Further growth included the incorporation of activities relating to the culture, communication, and social and human science sectors, which led to the eventual renaming of the office as the Principal Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (PROAP) in 1987.
At the beginning of 2002, the UNESCO office in Bangkok assumed two roles. As the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, it is the technical advisory body to all field offices and Member States of the region and the site of regional programmes in most areas covered by the Education Sector.
As the cluster office, the UNESCO office in Bangkok is also the principal coordinator of UNESCO activities, across sectors, in the Mekong region - directly in Thailand, Myanmar and Lao PDR and indirectly in support of UNESCO country offices in Viet Nam and Cambodia.
UNESCO Bangkok also houses regional advisory units in Culture and Social and Human Sciences and staff from the Communication and Information Sector and the Science Sector.
In 2007, Singapore joined UNESCO as the 193rd Member State and become a member of UNESCO Bangkok cluster office.
Lieux
Bangkok, Thailand
Statut légal
UNESCO Cluster and Regional Bureau for Education
Fonctions et activités
For all information about the UNESCO Bangkok Office, please see the <a href="http://www.unescobkk.org/">website of the office</a>.