{"id":3065,"date":"2026-01-04T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3065\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:01:25","slug":"unesco-strengthens-collaboration-with-ministry-of-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3065\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO Strengthens Collaboration with Ministry of Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNESCO Head of Office and Representative to Namibia, Ms. Eunice Smith, recently paid a courtesy visit to the Honourable Ms. Indileni Daniel, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT), to reinforce UNESCO\u2019s partnership with the Ministry in promoting sustainable development notably through science and culture. The discussions centered on environmental conservation, the promotion of indigenous knowledge systems, heritage management, tourism development, and Namibia\u2019s potential to develop UNESCO Global Geoparks as a tool for community empowerment and economic diversification.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by Ms. Helvi Elago, National Programme Officer for the Culture Sector, and Ms. Kombada Mhopjeni, National Programme Officer for the Science Sector, Ms. Smith provided an overview of UNESCO\u2019s past collaboration with the Ministry in Natural Sciences and Culture and highlighted possible areas for partnership going forward based on Namibia\u2019s priorities identified in Namibia\u2019s National Development Plan 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UNESCO Head of Office and Representative to Namibia, Ms. Eunice Smith, recently paid a courtesy visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1560,1564,557,1143,1558,1561,102,2690,1562,1557,1559,1644,1563],"class_list":{"0":"post-3065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-build-a-stronger-multilateralism-un","9":"tag-climate-change-biodiversity","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-foster-science--innovation-for-humanity","13":"tag-g20","14":"tag-namibia","15":"tag-natural-sciences","16":"tag-partnerships","17":"tag-priority-africa","18":"tag-promote-inclusion--mutual-understanding","19":"tag-reconcile-with-nature","20":"tag-respond-to-current-global-challenges-ai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}