UNESCO Regional Center for Educational Planning

The Regional Centre For Educational Planning ( RCEP ) was established in accordance with the agreement signed between the Government of United Arab Emirates and the United Nation Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) on 17th October 2003.

The objective of the Centre shall be to support capacity development for education sector-wide policy and planning in Ministries of Education, with particular emphasis to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and Yemen, through the following functions build national and regional capacity for modern educational planning, by targeting senior officials and technical staff of ministries of education, local level (province, district) education offices, and other ministries directly related to the education sector, such as finance ministries, facilitate information-sharing and exchange on educational planning and management, disseminate relevant information to education authorities in the region and make readily available such material to the trainees of the Centre in English and Arabic, foster collaborative initiatives and maintain links with key stakeholders in educational planning, nationally, regionally and internationaly, with a view to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 pertaining to education and undertake any other activities necessary to strengthen educational planning regionally and internationally.