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Approved Programme and Budget

• 10,Oct 2023
• Posted By : icerim
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1. The Approved Programme and Budget for 2022-2025 (41 C/5) reflects a strong and renewed ambition for UNESCO at a time when the United Nations system as a whole must mobilize at all levels throughout the decade of action to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2. Drawn up in the context of a global health emergency with multiple, long-term consequences, this document conveys a message of unity, mobilization and recovery in the Organization’s fields of competence with a view to providing innovative and appropriate responses to contemporary challenges.
3. For the first time since the 1990s, extreme poverty is on the rise again, with a projected 71 million more people forced into extreme poverty in 2020 alone. Furthermore, UNESCO estimates that nearly 1.6 billion learners are or have been affected by school and university closures due to the health crisis, causing the most serious disruption to education in history.
4. The past year of crisis has illustrated, more than ever before, the crucial importance of quality education, universal access to information and scientific data, the promotion of inclusion and fight against discrimination, greater support for the cultural and creative sector and cultural professions and the media, and free and independent journalism.