The UNESCO Office in Jamaica serves twenty Caribbean English and Dutch-Speaking Small Island Developing States to pursue peace, eradicate poverty, sustainable development and inter-cultural dialogue through its five programmes in Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, and Communication and Information.
The Member States and Associate Members of the Office's regional mandate are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saints Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.