What future for UNESCO?
1. The main purpose of the next step that the TF21 may take on programming issues is to assist the Executive Board in preparing the debate on the draft Medium-term Strategy for 2002-2007 (C/4) and beyond. This is a twofold exercise: the recommendations of the TF21 should concern both “what” and “how” of UNESCO’s action in the twenty-first century. 2. The example of the current C/4 is very significant. Indeed, it is an excellent document which, in full accordance with UNESCO’s mission, contains a clear and coherent vision of the Organization’s strategy. However, the effectiveness of UNESCO’s action in the last five years seems not be as clear and coherent. Bridging the gap is what the reform is all about. As the Director-General, Mr Matsuura himself has put it, “UNESCO must change, not in mandate and mission, but in the ways in which they are given practical expression, thus responding to the expectations of the international community We have to demonstrate our usefulness, or disappear
