National Commissions play a crucially important role, linking UNESCO with the educational, scientific, cultural and communications and information communities in member states. They also help those communities articulate their interests and concerns so that they may be expressed by their governmental representatives in UNESCO's governing bodies.
In light of this importance, UNESCO provides a number of resources to help National Commissions. These include:
* Learning from One Another: Four Pilot Inter-regional and Sub-regional Projects
* Charter of National Commissions for UNESCO
* Good Practices of National Commissions for UNESCO: A Compendium
* Architecture of National Commissions