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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Office in Nairobi, KenyaAbout the OfficeUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, was established on 16th of November 1945. The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.UNESCO has its headquarters in Paris, France, and has Field Offices and units all over the world.
Location The UNESCO Nairobi Office like other United Nations agencies in Kenya is based at the UN Gigiri Complex approximately 10 Km from down-town Nairobi. The Complex is also the Headquarters for UNEP and UN-HABITAT.
History Established in 1965 as Regional Center for Science and Technology, the Nairobi Office is one of the oldest field offices of the organization. Today it is an office with two major responsibilities. First, it is a Regional Office for Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa responsible for the implementation of UNESCO's science programmes in 47 countries. Since 2001 the Office is functioning as Cluster Office in all of UNESCO's fields of competence for Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda Somalia and Uganda. However, the Office remains a Regional Office for Science and Technology in Africa. In addition, the Nairobi Office hosts Regional programmes in bioethics and UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Finally the Nairobi Office is the host of the secretariat of the African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI). The later facilitates high-level human resource capacity building in science and technology.
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