UNESCO New Zealand

UCAF funding is available for New Zealand projects that engage with two or more of UNESCO’s mandated programme areas: Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, Communications and Information. Successful projects will be those that advance the National Commission’s strategic objectives as outlined in the National Commission’s Strategic Plan. 

UCAF aims to expand the reach of the National Commission’s activities in New Zealand to also achieve the organisation’s goal of working in a more intersectoral manner.

Successful UCAF Applicants 2009

Human rights education in schools, climate change projects in colleges and an information technology festival on the remote East Cape are a few of the innovative projects supported this year by the NZ National Commission for UNESCO’s Contestable Activity Fund or UCAF

Successful projects funded this year were:

• Human Rights in Education Project with ASP Schools (Human Rights In Education Trust): $5000
• Wellington Youth Climate Forum for secondary students ($4375)
• Te Rangitawaea ICT festival for East Cape residents (Ngati Porou Runanga): $5000
• Kowiana annual conference for young, Korean Kiwis (Kowiana Association): $3000

Applications for our 2010 funding round will open next year.