A/HRC/21/20 65. The Assisting Communities Together Project is a joint initiative of OHCHR and UNDP awarding, since 1998, small grants to national and local civil society organizations in support of grass-roots human rights education initiatives in selected countries. 13 In 2011-2012, the grants supported activities countering discrimination; a total of 28 OHCHR and 20 UNDP grants were awarded in Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Ecuador, Iraq, Kosovo, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Senegal, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Uganda and Uruguay. Under the eighth phase of the project (2012-2013), OHCHR and UNDP expect to award grants in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Republic of Moldova, the Sudan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Tunisia. B. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 66. As part of its education mandate, UNESCO promotes and supports national implementation of the World Programme by its member States, also through joint initiatives with OHCHR as mentioned above. It has developed materials to assist its member States to integrate education for peace and human rights in school systems, such as Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Education (June 2011). Another example is a short film Education for Human Rights… Young People Talking, produced in 2011 in cooperation with the national commissions for UNESCO and national coordinators of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network from Albania, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, the Dominican Republic, France, Indonesia, Lebanon and Uganda. The film showcases schoolchildren’s key concerns from a human rights education perspective, touching upon issues related to gender, violence, peace and diversity, among others. C. Other intergovernmental organizations 67. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) has promoted human rights education and the World Programme in the OSCE area. It has organized national and regional events in Central Asia to present human rights education approaches in the school system and to assist States in integrating human rights into their formal curricula. ODIHR has also been developing guidelines for human rights education in the secondary school system, for law enforcement officials and for public health professionals, containing methodological guidance for quality human rights education. 68. The Council of Europe14 supports human rights education and the World Programme in Europe; in 2010 its 47 member States adopted, by recommendation CM/Rec(2010)7, the Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, whose implementation will be reviewed in late 2012. The Council’s numerous materials include the “Charter for All”, presenting the document in a language accessible to young people, and a revised version of Compass: A manual on human rights education with young people. Among the Council’s many training activities are the Pestalozzi Programme,15 which develops competencies of education practitioners, and human rights training offered to judges, prison staff of national human rights institutions and other professional groups. Human rights education is also mainstreamed in the Council’s youth policy. 13 14 15 16 See www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/act.htm. www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/What/ICCCoE_EN.asp. See www.coe.int/pestalozzi.