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During the 1950s, many new states emerged and changed the entire balance of power within the international organizations, adding to both their willingness and their ability to help. Support came first and foremost via the UN and its specialized agencies’ programs for technical assistance, which aimed to help with the economic development of new as well as already existing countries around the world, and through which also UNESCO slowly but surely expanded its field operations. In these early years the organization could offer technical assistance to requesting governments within the fields of elementary education, fundamental and adult education, technical education and science, and the work would be carried out by mission experts sent and employed by UNESCO.1
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UNESCO’s Assistance in Educational Planning in Africa 4 September 1963, UNESDOC, and International Symposium on 60 Years of History of UNESCO, November 2005 (Paris: UNESCO, 2005), 42, 447, 477–478.
Newsletter 7:22, 31 October 1960, cited in Gail Archibald, Les Etats-Unis et l’UNESCO, 1944–1963: Le rêves peuvent-ils résister à la réalité des relations internationales?: Série Internationale, 44 (Paris: Sorbonne, 1993), 269.
Mbuyu Mujinga Kimpesa, L’Opération de l’UNESCO au Congo-Léopoldville et le diagnostic des réalités éducatives congolaises, 1960–1964 (unpublished dissertation) (Genève: Université de Genève, 1983) and Josué Mikobi Dikay, La Politique de l’UNESCO pour le développement de l’éducation de base en République démocratique du Congo, 1960–1980 (unpublished dissertation) (Orléans: Université d’Orléans, 2008).
Gary Fullerton, UNESCO in the Congo (Paris: UNESCO, 1964), Preface.
International Yearbook of Education, vol. XXVII, 1965 (Geneva: International Bureau of Education, 1966), 98; Fullerton, UNESCO in the Congo, 11, 14, 42–43.
International Yearbook of Education, vol. XXVI, 1964 (Geneva: International Bureau of Education, 1965), 87–89. International Yearbook of Education, 1965, 97–99; Fullerton, UNESCO in the Congo, 19, 21, 25–40 and Paul-Henry Gendebien, L’intervention des Nations Unies au Congo, 1960–64 (Paris: Mouton et Cie, 1967), 185–191.
International Yearbook of Education, vol. XXX, 1968 (Geneva: International Bureau of Education, 1969), 111.
Literacy 1967–1969: Progress Achieved in Literacy Throughout the World (Paris: UNESCO, 1970), 33.
This chapter is mainly based on Josué Mikobi Dikay, La Politique de l’UNESCO pour le développement de l’éducation de base en République démocratique du Congo, 1960–1980 (unpublished dissertation) (Orléans: Université d’Orléans, 2008).
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Dikay, J.M. (2016). Education for Independence: UNESCO in the Post-colonial Democratic Republic of Congo. In: Duedahl, P. (eds) A History of UNESCO. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58120-4_9
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