The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has agreed to an unprecedented partnership with the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND), which will be concluded today as part of the Fifth AGFUND Development Forum. Both organizations, represented by Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR, and by Mr. Nasser B. Al-Kahtani, Executive Director of the AGFUND, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding based on mutual trust and in spirit of cooperation. The official signing will be the preamble of the “Symposium on the Role of Financial Inclusion in Achieving the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development”, organized by the AGFUND and taking place today at the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva.

“We need to find different ways of talking to each other about climate change, rather than leaving this to formal education, and the best way to do this is to start young.”

3-7 April, 2017, Port Louis, Mauritius - With the goal of stimulating both the demand and the supply side of the provision of quality education of inclusive green economy (IGE) in Mauritius, UNITAR organized a one-day workshop (3 April) on “IGE in Mauritius: What skills do we need?”, as well as a training of trainers (5 – 6 April) on “How to design, develop and deliver effective e-learning”. The events were organized jointly with the Ministry of Civil Service and Administrative Reform and the Civil Service College, Mauritius, withing the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE).