Memory of the World UNESCO Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (MOWLAC)
Regional Memory of the World committees are cooperative structures that bring together people from two or more countries in order to pursue the Programme's objectives. The grouping may be (for example) geographically based, or based on other parameters such as shared cultures or interests, or grouped around regional offices of UNESCO. Regional committees provide a means of addressing issues which fall outside the practical scope of the International Advisory Committee on the one hand, and of individual national committees on the other, and provide a mechanism for cooperation and complementation beyond the national level. Membership would normally include representatives of the national committees relevant to the grouping. In addition to MOWLAC the other regional committees are MOWCAP - for Asia and the Pacific http://www.unesco.mowcap.org and MOWAfrica for Africa.
National
committees are encouraged, but not required, to link to a relevant
regional committee. By the same token, regional committees need not be
comprised solely of representatives of national committees: they may,
for instance, include representatives of National Commissions of UNESCO
from countries which do not have national Memory of the World
committee. In the Caribbean the regional programme is conducted by MOWLAC.
MOWLAC is coordinated out of the UNESCO Cluster office, Jamaica. The programme officer for MOWLAC is Sr. Isidro Fernandez-Aballi.
For further details: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2440&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html