The UNITAR Hiroshima Fellowship for Afghanistan programme, a seven-month-long capacity building initiative undertaken in partnership with the Hiroshima Prefectural Government, the Singapore International Foundation and other international partners including Microsoft Corporation, was recently concluded with the graduation of 32 Fellows and Coaches.

This capacity-building initiative aims at developing expertise within a core group of Afghan public officials to further facilitate the reconstruction process of Afghanistan. This, the sixth annual Cycle began last April and comprised three week long sessions in Afghanistan, Singapore and Japan and five web-seminars linking participants in Kabul with experts in Hiroshima, Phoenix, Calgary, Singapore and Seattle. With the completion of the sixth Cycle, UNITAR has graduated 185 Fellows since the inception of the programme.

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