Useful information

Financial updates

Review the latest numbers for the funds dedicated to maintaining and preserving UNESCO's Headquarters complex. 

  • Capital and Strategic Investment Fund (CSI)
  • Headquarters Utilization Fund (HQF)
UNESCO Headquarters

Financial updates

Review the latest numbers for the funds dedicated to maintaining and preserving UNESCO's Headquarters complex.
Capital and Strategic Investment Fund (CSI)

A reserve of funds to finance the most urgent structural and operational needs of the Headquarters complex.

$ 25.8 million
available funds

as of 30 September 2024

$ 12.4 million
consolidated income

as of 30 September 2024

Headquarters Utilization Fund (HQF)

Funds to cover the use of the Headquarters premises, along with its conservation, restoration, operation and promotion of its works of art.

$ 15.4 million
available funds

as of 30 September 2024

$ 13.4 million
consolidated income

as of 30 September 2024

Restaurant and catering services

 

Since 2021, SERENEST has been managing UNESCO's restaurant, canteens and bar. It also offers catering services for all kinds of events organized at UNESCO.

Reservations 

  • Book a table at the restaurant: unesco.restaurant@serenest.fr
  • Book a catering service: event.unesco@serenest.fr  
42 GC - Online Practical Guide for Delegates - Restaurant
View from the 7th floor restaurant.

Catering services in 2023

17%
of the meetings organized in 2023

used catering services

6%
increase in catering events from 2022
214
catering events in 2023

Organizing an event at UNESCO

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UNESCO meeting room 1

Conferences and cultural events

1,274
events organized in 2023
24%
of events organized in 2023

were for electoral or regional group meetings

Advisory Committee for Works of Art

Since 1953, art and culture experts from across the globe have been proving their expertise and advice on the management of UNESCO's art collection. 

Today UNESCO houses the largest collection of artistic heritage in the United Nations system, comprised of some 1,800 works of art.

UNESCO artwork

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