Projects – Communication and Information
Safeguarding the Documentary Heritage of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Southeast Asia through the UNESCO Memory of the World (MOW) Programme
UNESCO, through this project, aims to support the safeguarding of the significant documentary heritage of Southeast Asia, particularly focusing on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) through the implementation of the UNESCO Memory of the World (MOW) programme and UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage including in Digital Form (2015). The Recommendation serves as the most up-to-date tool available to governments, museums, archives, libraries, the private sector and individuals working to preserve and provide access to the world’s documentary heritage.
The programme will also result in the creation of a Southeast Asian / ASEAN ‘action plan’ for the implementation of the new UNESCO Recommendation.
In this context, UNESCO through its office in Bangkok and Jakarta, will undertake the following actions:
- Organize an international seminar on the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Preservation of, Access to, Documentary Heritage including in Digital Form.
- Organize National Capacity Building Workshops on the MOW programme.
- Organize Regional and National study of significant documentary heritage in Timor Leste, Myanmar and wider Southeast Asia.
- Develop illustrated publication (online and hardcopy) of the results of the study of significant documentary heritage.
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Post COP 21: Strengthening Media Capacity to Monitor and Report on Climate Change in Asia Pacific

climate change reporting
This project seeks to build on the momentum generated by the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21, along with other activities of UNESCO to enhance media reporting on the globally interconnected issue of climate change by building capacity of media in developing countries, and most particularly in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Islands Developing States (SIDS), to provide timely and reliable access to information and knowledge on a key development issue such as climate change. More specifically, the project aims to:
- Equip journalists with the specialized knowledge and skills necessary for authoritative reporting on climate change, taking into account the phenomenon’s social, political and economic complexities.
- Raise public awareness of the dangers that climate change poses for Pacific islands States, Southeast Asia and African countries, as an integral part of their commitment under the Paris Agreement to implement “their nationally determined contributions, in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, in a coordinated and effective manner, including through, inter alia, mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer and capacity building” (Article 6.8).
- Promote South-South networking among Pacific islands States, Southeast Asia journalists and schools of journalism and those from Africa, as a way of demonstrating both the global and geo-specific nature of the communication challenges inherent in climate change,

climate change reporting

climate change reporting
During the implementation period, the project had conducted the following activities: