BREDA:
UNESCO's office for Education in Africa
The UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar,
better known under its French acronym BREDA, is the largest UNESCO
office in Africa. It is the most important by the number of countries
it covers, by the size of its budget, by the number and quality of its
staff and especially by the scope of its activities.
Established in 1970 to address educational planning
issues in Africa South of the Sahara, BREDA, over years, extended its
fields of action so much that it now covers not only other education
sub-sectors but deals also with other areas of competence of the
Organization: Science, Social Sciences, Culture and Communication.
