The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has put together this brochure on its contribution to Africa's Plan for Science and Technology to 2010 in the lead up to the forthcoming African Union Summit, in January 2007, and the meeting of African Ministers of Science and Technology November 23-24, 2006. The theme of the 8th summit meeting of the African Union Heads of State, to be held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in January 2007, is Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation for Africa's Socio-Economic Development. November 23-24, 2006, African Ministers of Science and Technology will be meeting in Cairo (Egypt) ahead of the forthcoming summit; the UNESCO delegation to the Cairo meeting will be headed by Walter Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences. In preparation for this event, UNESCO has put together a brochure on its contribution to Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action. This brochure outlines UNESCO's ongoing programs and activities in Africa. It echoes the objectives of the African Union (AU)/New Partnership for Africa's Development's (NEPAD) Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action and provides a "foretaste of the ways in which UNESCO can lend its support to NEPAD." Themes addressed herein are: (1) Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Indigenous Knowledge; (2) Energy, Water and Desertification; (3) Information and Communication Technologies and Space Science and Technologies; and (4) Improving Policy Conditions and Building Innovation Mechanisms. Annexes include: (1) Microbial Resource Centers in Africa; (2) UNESCO Chairs in Science and Technology in Africa; (3) World Heritage Sites in Africa; and (4) Biosphere Reserves in Africa. (Contains 32 boxes.) [This publication was produced with the support of the UK Permanent Delegation to UNESCO and UK Department for International Development.]