Director-General highlights the role of education, culture and
science in reducing poverty and promoting sustainable
development in her meeting with the President of the World Bank
On 20 December, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova,
met with the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, to
discuss UNESCO's cooperation with the World Bank. At the
meeting, the Director-General highlighted UNESCO’s unique
expertise in the field of education, recalling that UN Secretary
General, Ban Ki-moon, appointed her as Executive Secretary for
the Steering Committee of Education First, his new global
initiative. his Initiative aims to spur a global movement to put
quality, relevant and transformative education at the top of the
social, political and development agenda. It is designed to
accelerate the achievement of the Education for All and
Millennium Development Goals, and to inform the Post-2015 UN
Development Agenda. Quoting UNESCO’s 2012 EFA Global Monitoring
Report, the Director-General underlined that 200 m