The mission of the UNESCO Nairobi Office, which was established in 1965, is to provide service to African member states in all UNESCO's Programme sectors, especially in science and technology, and to coordinate the organizations activities in non-Arab Africa in these two areas.
Agency Activities:
For the first 30 years, the UNESCO Nairobi Office served primarily a regional office for science and technology for Africa, covering non-Arab Africa. There were always activities in other sectors as well, notably education and communication. In 1995, the range of the office's activities was extended to cover all UNESCO's field of competence (education, science, culture and communication). But the office retained its historical disciplinary specificity in science and technology.
Agency Coverage:
The activities of UNESCO Nairobi cover 47 member states in Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo, Cote d' Ivoire, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo Uganda, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
