About UNESCO Juba

The Organization’s multi-sectoral cooperation programme and strategy for the Republic of South Sudan (RSS) have been articulated in the UNESCO Country Strategy (2022-2025) which is aligned with the country’s Revised National Development Strategy (2021-2024), and United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2023 -2025, signed by the UN and the government of South Sudan in September 2022, the African Union agenda 2063 and the UNESCO’s priority Africa flagship programmes.  

UNESCO’s unique mandate, with peace and sustainable development as the overarching goal, coupled with rich experience and expertise across various sectors, including education, culture, sciences, social and human sciences, and communication and information, provides the opportunity to support South Sudan in protecting its people, building resilience, and promoting inclusive development.

UNESCO’s programmes, and strategic interventions in South Sudan within each area of its comparative advantage aims to foster an inclusive and tailored approach to support South Sudan’s transition out of fragility, “Consolidate Peace, Stabilize the Economy”[1], through working in partnership with a broad range of partners and stakeholders including government line ministries, UN sister agencies, Development Partners, NGOs, Universities, CSOs, the private sector, and the media to mobilize the required technical expertise and resources for the country for each thematic area, while seizing synergies and intersectoral cooperation aimed to ensure interdisciplinary response and delivery of innovative and transformative agenda in South Sudan.

UNESCO Juba, through its programmes, and strategic framework for engagement with the government of South Sudan; promotes and strengthens intersectoral cooperation with the aim to pool in-depth expertise from within its five programme sectors (education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, communication, and information) to deliver integrated and interdisciplinary programme response in priority areas aligned to the SDGs and South Sudan’s Revised National Development Strategy (R-NDS) 2021-2024. 

The strategic goals of UNESCO programmes and budget for the biennium aims to support creation of an improved enabling environment through policies and institutional frameworks development and implementation, eevidenced-based interventions, and concrete outputs in areas of comparative advantage and delivery of context-specific solutions coupled with innovative, knowledge-driven, and target-oriented efforts, to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. 

UNESCO’s programmes and technical cooperation in partnership with the various government levels and sectors supports technical expertise to the Education Sector Analysis (ESA) process, which was followed by the development of an Education Sector Plan (2023-2027); strengthen government capacity to provide access to relevant skills for human development to meet individual, labour market and societal demands through TVET and literacy; enhance the protection and promotion of the diversity of heritage and cultural expressions; promote freedom of expression and the right to information;  support civic engagement, democratic participation, and social transformation; and enhance knowledge for climate action, biodiversity, water security, and disaster risk reduction.