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UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean: activities report for the biennium 2020-2021
The UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean is pleased to present the Activities Report for the Biennium 2020-2021, covering the period from January 2020 to December 2021, and to provide an outlook for the following Biennium 2022-2023. In this Activities Report, we showcase our actions in the five programmatic sectors of UNESCO's mandate: Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, and Communication and Information, in the twenty Caribbean English and Dutch-speaking Small Island Developing States served by the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean. These five programmes are committed to the core principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: "leaving no one behind" in the pursuit of eradicating poverty, mitigating the effects of climate change, empowering youth in the region and building lasting peace – above all, gender equality is a global priority. This activity report is intended to be holistic and comprehensive, highlighting the various interactions and the cross-sectoral nature of our actions.
The Member States and Associate Members of the Office's regional mandate are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
We strongly believe that multi-stakeholder partnerships and platforms open up innovative and new ways of working together to achieve sustainable, inclusive development and much-needed global solidarity.
UNESCO's work would not be possible without the valuable partnerships with international and regional development agencies such as the European Union, the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), SIDA and many others, our UN sister agencies, the National Commissions for UNESCO, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and UNESCO field offices, as well as regional programme offices and institutes in Latin America and the Caribbean, and worldwide.
