40th anniversary<\/strong><\/h3>\nJean-Yves Le Saux stressed the importance of the predictable and flexible funding from Iceland. \u00a0In addition IPDC secretary Guy Berger thanked Iceland for its support. He noted that the Programme marked its 40th anniversary on 24 November with an important role going ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIceland\u2019s support will help build the capacity of journalists in developing countries. They have an important role in supplying the public with reliable information by means of a strong and independent media sector. This is a key to countering the current infodemic\u201d. He added: \u201cAll contributions to media development are appreciated and make a difference. However, we particularly value this multi-year commitment from Iceland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNESCO and Iceland have signed an Agreement, aiming at providing the first financial support of Iceland to the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The Agreement was signed by Unnur Orrad\u00f3ttir-Ramette Permanent Delegate of Iceland to UNESCO with Jean-Yves Le Saux, Director of the Bureau of Strategic Planning at UNESCO. First contribution Iceland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20052],"tags":[20076,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}