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All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)

Medical Council of India (MCI)

Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)

National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)

Dental Council of India (DCI)

Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)

Indian Nursing Council (INC)

Bar Council of India (BCI)

Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH)

Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM)

Council of Architecture

Distance Education Council

Rehabilitation Council

State Councils of Higher Education

UNESCO's Regional Offices and Other National Commissions

UNESCO, New Delhi Office

UNESCO, New Delhi Office, the organization's first de-centralized office in Asia, was established in 1948. As a result of a new decentralized policy in 2001, the New Delhi Office was designated as a Cluster Office and Asia Pacific Regional Bureau for Communication and Information. As Cluster Office, UNESCO New Delhi Office maintains relations with Bhutan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is part of a network of 53 UNESCO Field Offices around the world, which implement the organization's biennium programme approved by UNESCO General Conference, every two years.

UNESCO, New Delhi Office placed great emphasis on the development of a range of partnerships, alliances and other cooperative mechanisms in the region, so as to foster impact for its programme activities for both regional and national levels.

(unesco.org/newdelhi)

UNESCO Bangkok Office

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 Sciences Sectors, which laid to the eventual renaming of the office as the Principal Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (PROAP) in 1987.

Since 2002 UNESCO Office in Bangkok has two roles. As the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau of 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, the provision of information, expertise, and extra budgetary opportunities from across the region to member States. It also houses regional units for Culture and for Social and Human Sciences.

As UNESCO Bangkok, the office is the sub-regional cluster office for the countries of the Mekong region, working to develop and implement programmes across the sectors of UNESCO's expertise. It does so directly with UNESCO National Commissions and other partners in Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand (countries for which the office is the officially designated UNESCO representative office), and in collaboration with existing UNESCO country offices in Viet Nam and Cambodia.

The basic mission of UNESCO is to contribute to sustainable human development in a culture of peace, underpinned by tolerance, democracy and human rights, through programmes and projects in UNESCO's fields of competence-education, the natural and social sciences, culture, and communication and information.

In carrying out this mission to serve the 44 member States in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Bangkok takes into account the immense size of the Asia and Pacific region, including almost two thirds of the world's population, and its diversity and cultural pluralism, with its great potential and its persistent problems.

Together with its sister agencies in the United Nations system, UNESCO is committed to consolidating the dynamism and long-term economic growth the region has experienced and to carrying out its ethical mission to complement this growth by addressing threats to the peace, security, and equitable development of the region.

(www.unescobkk.org)

Asia and Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) :

APPEAL is a regional cooperative programme designed to promote literacy, primary education and continuing education as integrated components of basic education. Approved by UNESCO General Conference in 1985, the programme was officially launched in 1987.

APPEAL's strategy is to stress gender mainstreaming, networking and appropriate utilization of information and communication technology (ICT). The principal targets of APPEAL's interventions are those groups most likely to be excluded from participation in education: women and girls, the poor and disadvantaged, minorities and the disabled. APPEAL encourages innovation in both formal and non-formal education and aims at building bridges between them with the overall aim of offering good quality basic education through either approach.

Asia and Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID)

APEID was officially launched as a UNESCO Inter-Country Programme in 1973, with a mandate to strengthen Member States' ability to create and use educational innovations for achieving national development goals. APEID's main objectives are to: (I) encourage and facilitate innovative activities to enhance equity and quality in post-primary education, (II) strengthen the capacity of member countries to undertake innovative actions in all programme areas, and (III) promote inter-country technical cooperation and the sharing of successful innovative experiences.

Regional Adviser for Culture in Asia and the Pacific (RACAP)

The aim of RACAP is to promote cultural creativity and safeguarding the world's heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region. In the rapidly changing Asia-Pacific Region, UNESCO has a unique role to play in ameliorating the negative aspects of globalisation while promoting sustainable social and economic development based on a strategy that maximises each community's distinctive assets of cultural and human capital.

(For further details about the activities of UNESCO Bangkok Office, its website- www.unescobkk.org may be accessed).

Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), Japan

The Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO is a non-profit organization for Asia and the Pacific regional activities in line with the principles of UNESCO, working for the promotion of mutual understanding and cultural cooperation among peoples in the region.

It was established in 1971 in Tokyo by joint efforts of public and private sectors in Japan. It has since been implementing various regional cooperative programmes in the fields of culture, education and personnel exchange in close collaboration with UNESCO and its Member States in Asia and the Pacific.

ACCU places its special emphasis on the programmes planned and implemented jointly by Asian and Pacific Member States of UNESCO. This joint programme scheme has been applied to its cooperative projects such as production of various materials of good quality for common use in order to encourage better understanding of diversified cultures in the region. At present ACCU is undertaking following activities in collaboration with the Member States of UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific Region:- Cultural Cooperation Programmes for Promoting the Respect of Cultural Diversity, Reading Promotion and Book Development, Education for Sustainable Development, Programmes relating to Education for All such as Literacy/Non Formal Education and various personnel exchange programmes to provide chances for people to meet and learn from each other. (For further information about ACCU, Japan Its website: http://www.accu.or.jp may be accessed)

International Days

Indian National Commission for

Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU)

facilitates celebration of UN/UNESCO

days/Weeks/Decades in the country.

Listed below are the days and weeks

officially recognised by the United

Nations

 21 February – International

Mother Language Day(UNESCO)

 8 March – International Women’s

Day

 21 March – International Day for

the Elimination of Racial

Discrimination

 21 March – World Poetry Day

(UNESCO)

 22 March – World Day for Water

2005

 23 March – World Meteorogical

Day (WMO)

 24 March – World Tuberculosis

Day (WHO)

 7 April – World Health Day

(WHO)

 23 April – World Book and

Copyright Day (UNESCO)

 3 May – World Press Freedom

Day(UNESCO)

 15 May – International Day of

Families

 17 May – World

Telecommunication Day (IUT)

 21 May – World Day for Cultural

Diversity for Dialogue and

Development

 22 May – International Day for

Biological Diversity

 25 May – Africa Day

 Beginning 25 May – Week of

Solidarity with the Peoples of

Non-Self-Governing Territories

 31 May – World No-Tobacco Day

(WHO)

 5 June – World Environment Day

(UNEP)

 17 June – World Day to combat

Desertification and Drought

 20 June – World Refugee Day

 23 June – United Nations Public

Service Day

 26 June – International Day

against Drug Abuse and Illicit

Trafficking

 26 June – United Nations

International Day in Support of

Victims of torture

 1^st Saturday July – International

Day of Cooperatives

 11 July – World Population Day

(UNFPA)

 9 August – International Day of

Indigenous People

 12 August – International Youth

Day

 23 August – International day for

the Remembrance of the slave

Trade and its Abolition (UNESCO)

 8 September – International

Literacy Day(UNESCO)

 16 September – International Day

for the Preservation of the Ozone

layer

 21 September – International Day

of Peace

 Last Week September – World

Maritime Day (IMO)

 1 October – International Day of

Older Persons

 2 October – International

Non-Violence Day

 1^st Monday October – World

Habitat Day

 4-10 October – World Space

Week

 5 October – World Teacher’s Day

(UNESCO)

 9 October – World Post Day

(UPU)

 10 October – World Mental

Health Day

 2^nd Wednesday October –

International Day for Natural

Disaster Reduction

 16 October – World Food Day

(FAO)

 17 October – International Day for

the Eradication Poverty

 24 October – United Nations Day

 24 October – World Development

Information Day

 24-30 October – Disarmament

Week

 6 November – International Day

for Preventing the Exploitation of

the Environment in war and Armed

Conflict

 10 November – World Science

Day for Peace and Development

(UNESCO)

 16 November – International Day

for Tolerance (UNESCO)

 20 November – Africa

Industrialization Day

 20 November – Universal

Children’s Day (UNICEF)

 21 November – World Television

Day

 21 November - - Philosophy Day

at UNESCO (UNESCO)

 25 November – International Day

for the Elimination of Violence

against Women

 29 November – International Day

of Solidarity with Palestinian People

 1 December – World Aids Day

(WHO)

 2 December – International Day

for the Abolition of Slavery

 3 December – International Day

of Disabled Persons

 5 December – International

Volunteer Day for Economic and

Social Development

 7 December – International Civil

Aviation Day (ICAO)

 9 December – International

Anti-Corruption Day

 10 December – Human Rights

Day

 18 December – International

Migrant’s Day

International Years proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly

 2002 – United Nations Year for

Cultural Heritage

 2002 – International Year of

Ecotourism

 2002 – International Year of

Mountains

 2003 – International Year of

Freshwater

 2004 – International Year to

Commemorate the struggle against

Slavery and its Abolition

 2004 – International Year of Rice

 2005 – International year of Micro

credit

 2005 – International Year for

Sport and Physical Education

 2005 – International Year of

Physics

 2006 – International Year of

Deserts & Desertification

 2008 - International Year of the

Potato; and

International Year of Planet Earth;

and

International Year of Sanitation;

and

International Year of Languages;

 2009 - International Year of

Reconciliation;

International Year of Natural Fibres;

and

International Year of Astronomy

 2010 - International Year of

Biodiversity; and

International Year for the

Rapprochement of Cultures

 2011 - International Year of

Forests

International Decades proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly

 2005-2015 – International Decade

for Action “Water for Life”

 2005-2014- United Nations

Decade of Education for

Sustainable Development

 2003-2012 – United Nations

Literacy Decade

 2001- 2010 – International

Decade for a Culture of Peace and

Non-Violence for the Children of the

World

 2001-2010 – Second International

Decade for the Eradication of

Colonialism

 2001-2010 – Decade to Roll Back

Malaria in Developing Countries,

Particularly in Africa

 1997- 2006 – First United Nations

Decade for the Eradication of

Poverty

 1995- 2004 – United Nations

Decade for Human Rights

Education

 1994-2004 – International Decade

of the World’s Indigenous People

 1993-2003 – Third Decade to

Combat Racism and Racial

Discrimination

 1993- 2002 – Second Industrial

Development Decade for Africa

 1993- 2002 – Asian and Pacific

Decade of Disabled Persons

2003-2012 - United Nations Literacy

Decade

The United Nations General

Assembly at its fifty-sixth session

adopted its resolution 56/116 entitled

“United Nations Literacy Decade:

Education for All” in which it

proclaimed United Nations Literacy

Decade for the period 2003-2012

towards the goal of Education for All.

This proposal was endorsed at the

roundtable convened at the World

Education Forum, held in Dakar in

2000.

The United Nations Literacy Decade,

as an integral component of

Education for All, will provide both a

platform and an impetus for

achieving all six goals of the Dakar

Framework for Action which are as

follows: -

(1) Expanding and improving

comprehensive early childhood care

and education, especially for the

most vulnerable and disadvantaged

children;

(2) Ensuring that by 2015 all

children, particularly girls, children in

difficult circumstances and those

belonging to ethnic minorities, have

access to and complete, free and

compulsory primary education of

good quality;

(3) Ensuring that the learning needs

of all young people and adults are

met through equitable access to

appropriate learning and life-skills

programmes;

(4) Achieving a 50 per cent

improvement in levels of adult literacy

by 2015, especially for women, and

equitable access to basic and

continuing education for all adults;

(5) Eliminating gender disparities in

primary and secondary education by

2005 and achieving gender equality

in education by 2015, with a focus on

ensuring girls’ full and equal access

to and achievement in basic

education of good quality;

(6) Improving all aspects of the

quality of education and ensuring

excellence of all so that recognized

and measurable learning outcomes

are achieved by all, especially in

literacy, numeracy and essential life

skills.

International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non- Violence
for the Children of the World (2001-2010)

The United Nations declared the

period between 2001 and 2010 as the

International Decade for a Culture of

Peace and Non- Violence for the

Children of the World. The UNESCO

was declared as a lead agency which

was tasked with coordinating all the

activities relating to the

implementation of the action plan of

the decade.

In India, the Indian National

Commission for Cooperation with

UNESCO (INCCU) has been actively

promoting this decade. The

Commission had organized lecture

series in 2001 to create a widespread

movement in favour of Culture of Peace in the country. One of the

lectures was of His Holiness the Dalai

Lama, who is internationally

renowned for his commitment to the

cause of international peace, security

and promoting respect for all human

rights.

In the year 2003 an International

Conference on Dialogue Among

Civilizations was co-organized by

Government of India and UNESCO in

July 2003 in New Delhi. The

Conference resulted in the adoption

of the “New Delhi Declaration” which

was later on adopted by UNESCO as

framework for future action in this

regard. Following from this

conference, an institute in our

country viz. Indian Institute of

Advanced Studies, Shimla has been

designated as the nodal institute to

carry forward the Dialogue Among

Civilizations.

UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development(2005-2014)

In December 2002 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to put in place a UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, lasting from 2005-2014. UNESCO was designated as the lead agency for the decade and for developing an International Implementation Scheme (IIS). UNESCO has a dual role to play, one as international coordinator and facilitator for the decade, and the second as a substantive implementer of Education for Sustainable Development.

The draft IIS was presented at the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly in October 2004. It sets out a broad framework and provides overall guidance for all partners and stakeholders to contribute to the Decade as per their particular/national context.

The primary goal for the DESD is laid out in the United Nations General Assembly resolutions 59/237 in which the General Assembly “encourages Governments to consider the inclusion ... of measures to implement the Decade in their respective education systems and strategies and, where appropriate, national development plans”. Furthermore, the General Assembly “invites Governments to promote public awareness of and wider participation in the Decade, inter alia, through cooperation with and initiatives engaging civil society and other relevant stakeholders, especially at the beginning of the Decade”. In nutshell, the Decade’s goal is that countries achieve Sustainable Development, i.e., the social, economic and environmental capacity, to maintain an international path of continuing development. Education, beginning with basic literacy and extending throughout life, is the foundation upon which Sustainable Development ultimately rests. UNESCO as lead agency will promote Education as a basis for a more sustainable human society and will encourage the integration of Sustainable Development issues and practices, including local knowledge and culture, into education systems at all levels.

The International Implementation Scheme (IIS) as presented in October, 2005 as a UNESCO document, summarizes the goals and objectives of the Decade, and its relationship to other key education movements. It lists key milestones for the DESD and lays out seven strategies for moving forward with ESD. It is envisaged that IIS would foster collective ownership of the DESD and regions and nations will create plans, strategic approaches, and timetables on the basis of the framework provided by this International Implementation Scheme.

The International Implementation Scheme can be consulted online on the UNESCO DESD website www.unesco.org/education/desd

The Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) has constituted a National Committee consisting of experts and officials from Government, Civil Society and NGOs on Education, Environment, Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Communication and other related fields in order to systematically implement and oversee activities undertaken within the country in pursuance of the goals of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad has been designated as the nodal agency for all DESD related activities in the Country.