The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes international collaboration in Education, Sciences, culture, and communication in order to increase universal respect for Justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter  

While promoting the programs related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Sri Lanka National Commission of UNESCO   based on the Ministry of Education, focuses much on SDG 4 Quality Education giving due regard to SDG4 and SDG4C and identifying the urgent need of qualified and Quality teachers in the South Asian Region in 2012