- Bioethics Committee - Oceanographic Committee (IOC) - Man and
Biosphere (MAB) - Management of Social Transformations (MOST) -
Information for All Programme (IFAP) Ghana joined UNESCO on 11
April 1958. The Organization has an office based in Accra,
covering several countries. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General
of UNESCO, paid an official visit to Ghana in February 2007. He
took part in the 200th Anniversary commemoration of the
Abolition of the North Atlantic Slave Trade. Ghana is
participating in the UNESCO Teacher Training Initiative for Sub-
Saharan Africa (TTISSA), launched in 2006, as well as EDUCAIDS,
for HIV/AIDS prevention education. The Bia Biosphere Reserve was
included in the project “Biosphere Reserves for Biodiversity
Conservation and Sustainable Development in Anglophone Africa
(BRAAF)”. Two cultural sites in the country are included on the
World Heritage List.