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Mission and objectives
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, sciences, and culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the 2030 Agenda, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015. UNESCO Asia Pacific Bureau for Education in Bangkok covers 46 Member States in the region. Education is at the heart of UNESCO’s mission to build peace, eradicate poverty, and drive sustainable development. It is a human right for all throughout life. The Organization is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education. It has been entrusted to lead the Global Education 2030 Agenda through Sustainable Development Goal 4. UNESCO provides global and regional leadership in education, strengthens education systems worldwide and responds to contemporary global challenges through education with gender equality as an underlying principle. Its work encompasses quality educational development from pre-school to higher education and beyond. Advancing Scientific and Environmental Education for Sustainable and Resilient Societies is one of flagship intersectoral programme in 2022-2025.
Context
Climate change affects and is a cross-cutting issue for all people, Member States, academia, environmental agencies, civil-society organizations, private sector, and UN agencies. To enable discussions and actions to address climate change, it is important to build people’s science-based knowledge on climate science. With this goal, ten UN agencies (UNESCO, ILO, IOM, UNDP, UNDRR, UNEP, UN ESCAP, UNFCCC, UNICEF, UNOSSC) are engaged in a working group under the UN Issue Based Coalition (IBC) on Raising Ambitions on Climate Actions in Asia and the Pacific. Jointly the ten UN agencies produced a series of ‘Climate Science Education Materials’ including 28 posters, 25 social media graphics, and 3 short videos. All climate science education products can be accessed at the UNESCO Bangkok website (https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/climate-science-literacy-asia-pacific). To have greater impact at the local level including by enhancing knowledge and inspiring climate action, the climate science knowledge products are being translated into local languages.
Task description
We are seeking 2 Online Volunteers to support us by translating 28 posters, 25 social media graphics, and 3 video sub-titles from English to Lao. To this end, Online Volunteers are asked: • To translate 28 posters, 25 social media graphics, and subtitles of 3 short videos. • Ensure that translated products adhere to the template (original design) • Use language that is easy to understand for young learners and the public and ensure the translation is concise, in line with UN Editorial Manual, and fits the audience • If the volunteer is familiar with Adobe InDesign, support the design of translated mate-rials into the original design format The selected Online Volunteers will be provided with the document in the English language and will receive guidance on the target audience and our communications guidelines as well as other guidance as needed.