ERC/RSC/NAC/ME/82 Paris 14 October 2008 Original: English
Informal Meeting of the Coordinating Group of National Commissions for UNESCO during the 180th Session of the Executive Board
Room III (Fontenoy) Tuesday, 14 October 2008 (9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.) UNESCO, Headquarters
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1. Agenda……………………………………………………………….………………….…..3 2. Working Document………………….………….……….………………………...………...4 3. List of Participants……………………………………………………………………….….6
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Informal Meeting of Presidents and Secretaries-General of National Commissions for UNESCO on the occasion of the 180th session of the Executive Board (Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 9-10 am, Room III, Fontenoy Building) The main purpose of this meeting is to review outcomes of the recent regional consultations on 35 C/5 and plan for future activities for National Commissions
Agenda and issues for discussion
1. Modalities of future consultations and quadrennial conferences 2. National Commissions and broader UNESCO family 3. North-South, South-South and South-North-South cooperation of National Commissions 4. Delivering as One reform, UNDAF process and National Commissions 5. Interaction and cooperation between field network (national, cluster and regional offices, cat. 2 institutes, regional organizations) and National Commissions 6. UNESCO Secretariat (HQ sectors, cat.1 institutes, intergovernmental programmes) and National Commissions working together 7. Other business
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ON-GOING AND FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES OF THE NAC SECTION 1st October.2008
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Follow-up to the regional consultations on 35 C/5 and quadrennial conferences -
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14 Oct. 2008: informal meeting of SG & Chairs of NatComs (9-10 am, room 3) 15 Oct. 2008: DG’s meeting with the Coordinating Group (12 am)
Strengthening NatComs in Africa in cooperation with the German Commission -
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APA (Manila) ARB (Kuwait City) ENA (The Hague and Antwerp) LAC (Panama City) AFR (Cotonou)
180th Executive Board -
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19-23 May 2008: 27-29 May 2008: 31 May-4 June 2008: 24-28 June 2008: 7-9 July 2008:
28-30 Oct 2008: Kigali, Rwanda (for 5 countries) 19-21 Nov 2008: Maseru, Lesotho (for 8 countries) 10-12 Dec 2008: Antananarivo, Madagascar (for 5 countries)
Strengthening NatComs in the Pacific and the Caribbean -
28-30 April 2008: Marshall Islands (Marshall Is., Palau, Micronesia) 23-25 Sept. 2008: Solomon Islands (Solomon Is, PNG, Niue, Nauru)
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Capacity-building and cooperation among National Commissions supported by Spain
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Working with the Coordinating Group of National Commissions
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Meeting of NatComs from UN pilots and selected UNDAF countries -
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Allocations from the Participation Programme for the capacity-building of NatComs -
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11-13 Nov 2008: Hanoi (8 pays pilots+ pays des UNDAFs+ bureaux hors Siège)
US$748,000 were approved and granted for equipment, training, publication 50 National Commissions benefited of the grants
Publications by NAC Section -
Directory of National Commissions (in English and French) User’s Guide for the Database for NatComs (in Arabic, Chinese and Russian) Handbook for National Commissions (in Arabic and Spanish) -4-
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National Commissions in action (e-bulletin) A Culture of Partnerships: success stories and good practices
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Updating of the Help Package on website creation, registration and maintenance for National Commissions and Permanent Delegations
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Updating of the NAC Database and Website
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Comprehensive survey on and updating of Architecture of NatComs
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Decentralization Review Task Force (DRTF) -
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Updating of the Discussion Paper “Positioning of UNESCO’s National Commissions and national partners in the country-level approach” 20-23 Jan 2009: 4th DRTF meeting (Paris)
Planning for interregional information and training seminars for new SecretariesGeneral and regional/sub-regional training workshops for new staff of NatComs in 2009
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Informal Meeting of Presidents and Secretaries-General of National Commissions for UNESCO on the occasion of the 180th session of the Executive Board Réunion informelle des Présidents et Secrétaires généraux des Commissions nationales pour l’UNESCO à l’occasion de la 180ème session du Conseil Exécutif 14 October 2008 9h-10h, Room III / Salle III (Fontenoy) List of Participants / Liste des participants
N°
Name / Nom
Title / Titre
Country / Pays
E-mail Contact / Contact courriel
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Ms Gabriele Eschig
Secretary-General
Austria
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Mr Walter Lerouge
President
Belgium (Flanders)
[email protected]
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Mr Jan De Bisschop
Secretary-General
Belgium (Flanders)
[email protected]
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Ms Biljana Gutic-Bjelica
Secretary-General
Bosnia & Herzegovina
[email protected]
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Mr David A. Walden
Secretary-General
Canada
[email protected]
6
Ms Ana Maria Foxley
Secretary-General
Chile
[email protected]
7
Ms María de los Angeles Flórez Prida
President
Cuba
[email protected]
8
Mr Milan Kuna
Deputy Secretary-General
Czech Republic
9
Mr Jean-Pierre Boyer
Secretary-General
France
[email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
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Mr Roland Bernecker
11
Ms Maria-Ekaterini Papachristopoulou-Tzitzikosta
12
Mr Péter Gresiczki
Secretary-General
Germany
[email protected]
President
Greece
Mobile: + 30 6944 296 815 E-mail:
[email protected]
Secretary-General
Hungary
[email protected]
Deputy Head of Department of Community Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture
Hungary
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Ms Agnes Kovacs Biro
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Ms Asta Dirmaité
Secretary-General
Lithuania
15
Mr Paul Klein
Secretary-General
Luxembourg
[email protected]
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Ms Marija Raznatovic
Secretary-General
Montenegro
[email protected]
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Ms B.E. Van Vucht Tijssen
Chairperson
Netherlands
[email protected]
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Ms Els Jacobs
Secretary-General
Netherlands
[email protected]
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Ms Eva Van Der Fluit
Consultant
Netherlands
[email protected]
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Ms Elizabeth Rose
Secretary-General
New Zealand
Phone: + 64 4 47 35 23 E-mail:
[email protected]
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Mr Slawomir Ratajski
Secretary-General
Poland
[email protected]
22
Ms Aleksandra Waclawczyk
Assistant Secretary-General
Poland
[email protected]
23
Ms Manuela Galhardo
Secretary-General
Portugal
24
Mr Kuon Huh
Assistant Secretary-General
Republic of Korea
[email protected] [email protected]
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Director, Division of Partnership Projects, Natcom
Republic of Korea
Mr Amir Bilyalitdinov
Deputy Secretary-General
Russia
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Ms Marianna Lipkova
Assistant Secretary-General
Slovakia
[email protected]
28
Ms Marjutka Hafner
Secretary-General
Slovenia
[email protected]
29
Mr Desmond Fillis
Secretary-General
South Africa
30
Mr Luis Ramallo
President of the Natcom and President of the Natcom Coordinating Group
Spain
[email protected]
31
Mr Antonio Maynard
Secretary-General
St Kitts & Nevis
[email protected]
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Mrs Dorothy Littler
Secretary-General
Swaziland
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Ms Sivika Mektavatchaikul
Secretary-General
Thailand
[email protected]
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Ms Orachart Suebsith
Deputy Permanent Delegate
Thailand
[email protected];
[email protected]
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Ms Supranee Khamyuang
Program Officer, Natcom
Thailand
[email protected]
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Mr Augustine Omare-Okurut
Secretary-General
Uganda
[email protected] [email protected]
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Mr Eriabu Lugujjo
Vice-Chairman
Uganda
[email protected]
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Mr Alec Boksenberg
Chairman
UK
[email protected]
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Ms Felicitas Chinanda
Secretary-General
Zambia
[email protected]
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Ms Thi Hoang Mai Tran
First Secretary, Permanent Delegation
Vietnam
[email protected]
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Mr U-Tak Chung
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[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Secretariat of UNESCO Mr Jim Kulikowski
DADG/ERC & DIR/ERC/RSC
[email protected]
Mr Jacques Rao
DIR/RSC/RPO & Chief a.i. ERC/EO
[email protected]
Mr Xiaolin Cheng
Chief ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Mr Vladimir Kouchnirenko
Chief ERC/RPO/PTS
[email protected]
Ms Vida Habash
ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Ms Reem Saleh
ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Ms Marie-Noëlle Branet
ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Ms Lydie Ndobo Mackongo
ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Ms Lamya Cabanillas
ERC/RSC/NAC
[email protected]
Ms Lauren Magnan
ERC/RSC
[email protected]
Ms Berta de Sancristobal
ERC/CFS/MLT
[email protected]
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