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Name: Salma Khalifa
Title: Product Development Manager, Savola Group Country Egypt
Course: FAO-UNITAR Joint e-Learning Course on Trade and Food Security (Arabic edition)
It is evident that women go to great lengths in order to pursue their education and professional careers. Decades of research show that women, particularly mothers, who are employed full-time end up working the equivalent of a "double shift" because they are usually in charge of most of the housework and childcare.
Salma Khalifa understands too well this reality of juggling work and family. A mother to a ...
Nikki Antonette De Vera, an advocate for disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the Philippines, emerges as a beacon of change in the field. Nikki’s exposure to emergency response efforts early in life inspired her commitment to sustainable livelihoods and equitable DRR.
As an alum of the UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme, her journey underscores the symbiotic relationship between culture and learning in building resilient communities.
The UNITAR training programme provides a women's lea...
Title: Auxiliary Police Officer
Country: Canada
Course: Management Practices for Safer Roads: Toolkit
In 2002, the town of Drachten, in the Netherlands, removed nearly all traffic lights and road marks in the name of road safety. The aim was to reduce accidents and improve the town’s quality. The paradoxical experiment worked, and despite increases in traffic volumes, accident numbers fell from 8.3 per year between 1994 and 2002 to an average of just one per year in 2005.
If traffic signs are supposed to make traffic flow safer, how did the experiment work? The answer lie...
Name: Judith Draleru
Organization: United Nations Volunteer Programme
Functional Title: Midwife
Country: Uganda
Course participated in: Master’s in Conflictology
Judith Draleru is a midwife in South Sudan as a United Nations Volunteer. She took a Master in Conflictology offered by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Univeristat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Judith grew up in North Uganda. When the war broke out in 1979, she was separated from her parents at the age of five, raped, and then ...
Climate change has challenged traditional livelihood strategies, such as agriculture and pastoralism, requiring alternative, resilient livelihood options. To develop capacities that can face these new realities, the UNITAR Division for Prosperity organized the “Developing green livelihoods for women and youth in Africa: Strengthening food security, supporting climate resilient economies” programme. This Impact Story reveals that the programme was useful to participants' needs and that the majority were able to use what they had learned, including participants who started th...
Mariya Asagi is a development professional from Japan who specializes in educational and humanitarian support.She participated in the Primary Course, part of The Programme for Global Human Resource Development for Peacebuilding and Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, held online and in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan, in January and February 2025. Hiroshima University is commissioned to implement the Programme, in collaboration with the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR...
Nathalie Fakher Eddine is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded a social dining platform.The platform connects home cooks with locals and tourists to promote Lebanese culture and offer women and underprivileged families a means to earn money.Nathalie completed the 2024 UNITAR “Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Food Security and Economic Development in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon” programme.Through the programme, Nathalie learned more about sustainable business models, financial sustainability, and community engagement.Nathalie emphasizes the importance of a soli...
Sonath Abdul Sattar recalls when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the Maldives in 2004.
We did not know what a tsunami was; we thought it was a big wave. And we waited and watched – we saw the water receding outside so we could see the reefs. And then when it crashed, it was coming with the dead fish and everything. We were not aware at all.
It was a pivotal moment in Sonath’s life. In the aftermath, Sonath began volunteering for the country’s relief efforts. It began her career in disaster management, a path which eventually brought her to Japan to take part in the UNITAR ...
The National Adaptation Plans (NAP), coordinated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aim to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience. It further facilitates the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities (1). UNITAR is involved in several of the programmes of the NAP process such as the Integrating Agriculture in NAPs (NAP-Ag) and it is a partner in the NAP Global Support Programme (NA...
2022年6月・広島 - 持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）との関連付けを探すだけに終わらず、SDGsの視点を生かして自分たちの方針や政策をアップデートすることが求められている、と慶應義塾大学大学院特任助教で国連大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所研究員の高木超さんは語る。
2020年から国連ユニタール広島青少年大使プログラムの講師を務め、SDGsに関するアドバイザーとしても活躍する高木さん。2030年までに目標を達成するためのSDGsの「行動の10年」に入り、日本でもかつてない機運を感じる一方、まだ「知る」段階を目指したプログラムが多いとも思う。
「やらなきゃいけない」と、縁遠いまま啓発や宣伝に取り入れようとしても、「ぼやっとしたタグ付け」にとどまってしまう。たとえばこれまで明朝体で書いていた書類をユニバーサルデザインに置き換えてみたらー。課題解決や改善の道筋はいたるところにある。知識を実践に結び付けるには、自分たちの文脈の中でとらえ直し体系化することと、検証・評価の仕組みを取り入れることが必要だという。, 自治体や開発途上国のガバナンスに関心をもっており、学生時代にはSDGsの前身であるミレニアム開発目標（MDGs）に着目していた高木さん。2030アジェンダが採択された2015年、神奈川県大和市に勤めていた。MDGsとは異なり、すべ...