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27 September 2023, New York, USA – On 15-22 September 2023, UNITAR Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General Mr. Nikhil Seth paid an official visit to New York City for the 78th United Nations General Assembly and high-level meetings with United Nations executives., On September 15th, Mr. Seth's initial meeting was with UN Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina Mohamed to discuss the transition of UNITAR’s Nigeria Project Office. Following this, Mr. Seth met with H.E. Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, to explore collaboration op...
Mwikali Munyao, Kenyan carpenter and entrepreneur, participated in the first round of the UNITAR Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, Mwikali lost her job as a customer service agent. She decided to pursue her interest in carpentry and turned it into a business.
The UNITAR training taught her the entrepreneurial skills she needed and helped her business overcome financial challenges.
The second round of the UNITAR entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership training programme, r...
25 Young South Sudanese Professionals Begin UNITAR Leadership and Entrepreneurship Programme in Juba
8 August 2017 – The third cycle of the UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme: Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training began as 25 young South Sudanese professionals took part in the programme’s Orientation Workshop in Juba, South Sudan. The programme is a six-month capacity-building training for junior- to mid-career-level professionals that focuses on project management, leadership, and social entrepreneurship skills. This year, 25 Fellows and Coaches, including 11 women, from the public sector, private sector, academic institutions, media, and civil society organ...
26 October 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR, Franklin University Switzerland (FUS), and Industrial Policy Studies (IPS) Switzerland sign a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the first SDG Management School (SDGMS) in Geneva.
The SDGMS is the first Business School in the world to put the UN mission for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into practice at the forefront of education. The SDGMS will foster global leadership, by providing innovative and creative education to students, based on the cooperative partnership between the Parties, operating in Europe and ...
Financing urban water infrastructure is not easy: typically investments involve a high capital outlay and long pay-back periods, as well as greater risks and lower rates of return than other forms of infrastructure.
From July 22-23 2010, CIFAL Atlanta in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management hosted the Fifth “International Water Forum: Financing Water Systems and Governance”, bringing together representatives from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Uruguay, Colombia and major cities from United States.
The International Water Forum…
Hemispherical Discussion about the Challenges of Education in the Americas
15 April 2015, Panama City, Panama - The Decentralized Cooperation Programme of UNITAR joined the discussion with over 500 presidents of the most prestigious universities from the 35 countries in the Americas to present public policies on education in the region, in order to reach educational equity.
The inaugural Forum of Rectors of the Americas took place in Panama City in the framework of the Seventh Summit of the Americas hosted by His Excellency Juan Carlos Varela, President of Panama, on 10…
UNITAR Elected New Partner of the UN-EC Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI)
12 January 2015, Geneva, Switzerland – In light of its work in the field of migration and local governance, UNITAR was recently elected official partner of the six-member Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI). A global inter-agency programme funded by the European Commission and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the JMDI comprises IOM, ILO, UNHCR, UNFPA, UN Women and now also UNITAR.
It seeks to maximize the potential of migration for local…
QCPR Module 2- Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review
29 April 2016, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office partnered with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) for the “Second Module of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review” on 29 April 2016. The workshop was attended by approximately 50 delegates from several Permanent Missions in New York.
Mr. Marco A. Suazo, Senior Advisor and Acting Head of the UNITAR…
Forum of Small States Interactive Session Held in New York
16 June 2016, New York, USA - The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Sweden, organized an Interactive Session between the Forum of Small States (FOSS), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT). The session aimed to determine the countries' needs and collect feedback from FOSS countries in order for UNITAR to provide the best level of training possible.
Singapore’s…
16 March 2022, Doha, Qatar - UNITAR and its long-standing partner, The Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Center (ROLACC), have officially inaugurated CIFAL Doha, one of 24 highly specialized international capacity-building centres, on Wednesday 16 March during a formal high-level ceremony in the city of Doha, Qatar. The newly established CIFAL centre will leverage the synergetic areas of expertise of UNITAR and ROLACC and will empower leaders and young professionals in the Gulf Region in the areas of anticorruption and transparency, sustainable economic development, social ...