18-20 April 2007
Hanoi, Viet Nam

Journalists from seven South-East Asian countries and NGO representatives participated in the training workshop organized by UNESCO Bangkok in collaboration with UNESCO Hanoi.

The workshop was aimed at strengthening awareness and understanding among journalists and UN/INGO communication officers in the sub-region on the importance of education on human development. Participants developed story ideas and discussed issues on media coverage related to education. A session on making sense of education statistics citing examples from the EFA Global Monitoring Report was also discussed.

Education as a basic human right, the theme for this year’s EFA Global Action Week (23-29 April 2007) was also used as over-arching theme for the workshop. Participating journalists were from Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

UNESCO Bangkok’s Information and Knowledge Management Unit, and the Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics Unit, which is the Regional Office of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), are the main organizers of the workshop. The workshop was funded through UNESCO’s External Relations and Cooperation sector.


Download materials from the workshop:

Agenda  (PDF, 79KB)
Participants List (Word, 163KB)
Terms of Reference (PDF, 34KB)

Day 1 - 18 April 2007

Opening remarks by Ms. Vibeke Jensen (PDF, 41KB)

Welcome remarks by Dr. Ko-Chih Tung (PDF, 67KB)

Opening remarks by Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuong

Making Education Newsworthy by Ms. Yvonne Chua (PPT, 3.6MB)

The Right to Education by Ms. Raquel Del Castillo (PPT, 762KB)

EFA Action Week Activities in Viet Nam by Mr. Eisuke Tajima (PPT, 2.9MB)

Mother Tongue/Ethnic Minorities by Dr. Ko-Chih Tung (PPT, 2MB)

Gender by Ms. Vibeke Jensen (PPT, 289KB)

HIV/AIDS and education by Mr. Ludo Bok (PPT, 63KB)

Resources on HIV and AIDS education (PDF, 892KB)

Children with Disabilities by Ms. Anne Marie Davies (PPT, 113 KB)

Day 2 - 19 April 2007

Discussion and Reporting back from Field Visits (Word, 58KB)

Presentation of draft handbook by Ms. Leotes Lugo (PPT, 982KB)

Draft Journalist Handbook on EFA (PDF, 1.06MB)

Day 3 - 20 April 2007

Education Statistics: Making sense of numbers by Dr. Ko-Chih Tung (PPT, 2.4MB)

Education Statistics & the GMR - Story ideas (Word, 32KB)

Asia-Pacific EFA Resource Centre by Leotes Lugo (PPT, 2.9MB)

Additional Story Ideas by participants (Word, 43.5KB)

Recommendations to strengthen UNESCO's media relations (Word, 31KB)

International Days - Story ideas (Word, 61KB)

Closing Remarks Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer (PDF, 61KB)

Teleconference with Sheldon (draft transcript) (Word, 44KB)

Closing Remarks Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuong

Closing remarks Dr. Ko-Chih Tung (PDF, 36KB)

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For Thai participants

Annex A: Thailand Education needs boost (Word, 38KB)
Annex B: Global Action Week (Word, 44KB)
Annex C: Education for All Thailand (Word, 54KB)


Workshop photos and the video can be viewed here.

For further information, e-mail opi@unescobkk.org or efa@unescobkk.org