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3-4 March 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. As a follow-up to the 50th session of the Board of Trustees, the Board’s Chairman, Ambassador Henri Lopes, visited the Institute on 3-4 March with a view to engage in dialogue with UNITAR managers. Apart from sharing more detail on the Institute’s programming in the broad fields of peace, security, and diplomacy; environment; and governance; management also discussed achievements related to the Institute’s Knowledge Systems Innovation Unit, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Communications and Information Technology.
During the…
International Day of Peace Celebrated by UNITAR, JICA and Hiroshima Toyo Carp Collaboration
21 September 2016, Hiroshima, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office successfully collaborated with Japanese professional baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Chugoku Center and the Hiroshima Scouts Association to observe the International Day of Peace (21 September) on 17 September at the Hiroshima Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium.
Two special displays in the stadium introduced the activities of the Office, UNITAR Goodwill…
UNITAR and MapAction sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
December 22, Geneva, Switzerland – On Wednesday 16 December UNITAR and MapAction met to sign a MoU. Liz Hughes, MapAction Chief Executive, Nigel Press, Chairman of MapAction Board of Trustees, Einar Bjorgo, UNOSAT Manager and Francesco Pisano, UNITAR Research Department Director, acting as Officer in Charge, gathered in UNITAR’s offices for this important moment.
This MoU, defines the frame for future cooperation between UNITAR’s UNOSAT programme and MapAction.
“We are very pleased to see this MoU in place as…
UNITAR's Climate Change Programme will host a closing workshop for 14 Pilot Projects under the umbrella project Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) to be held the 10 to 11 June 2009 at the Gustav- Stressemann Institute in Bonn, Germany. During the closing workshop, the 14 Pilot Projects from Africa and Asia will show case their results, share lessons and best practices and deliberate on post project activities to ensure continuity and sustainability of the project outputs.
Furthermore, the project’s results will be shared with the…
The work done by UNOSAT at the height of the crisis in Kyrgyzstan has been used widely in human rights verifications. This confirms one of the early methodological innovations brought about by the UNOSAT team: prolonging the useful life of satellite derived information beyond the emergency phase.
In the case of Kyrgyzstan , Human Rights Watch has been benefitting from the high resolution imagery used by UNOSAT over cities affected by urban violence to discuss directly with survivors the details of events occurred during the violence outbreak. This underscores the power of…
Mauritania Advances its National Adaptation Planning Process
13 April 2015, Nouakchott, Mauritania - “Mauritania is particularly vulnerable to climate change” said Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Mr. Amédi Camara, at the official opening of a one week technical training on National Adaptation Planning supported by the National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme. In front of ministerial colleagues from Fisheries and Maritime Economy, Employment, Training and Communications, as well as parliamentary representatives and the international…
Geneva, 22 March 2014, in celebration of World Water Day, UNOSAT is thrilled to announce the release of its first hydrogeological map of Chad, produced in the context of the RésEAU project – Cartography of water resources in Chad
As highlighted by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon: “Water holds the key to sustainable development”. This is particularly true in Chad, which faces extreme weather conditions, varying between a very arid climate in the North and floodplains in the South. Better knowledge of groundwater resources and their interaction with rainwater is…
UNITAR Delivers Workshop with Columbia Law School on Women’s Leadership & Negotiation Skills
23 March 2018, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted the first in the three-part workshop series on conflict resolution, mediation, and multilateral negotiation. This series is sponsored by the Government of Sweden under the programme “Leveling the Playing Field”. This workshop focused on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal of gender equality.
The event began with…
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Winners Awarded for Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017
23 May 2017, Medan, Indonesia - The winning participants of the Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change (YLCCC) 2017 were awarded with the “Tribal Camp Award” and the “Team of the Year Award”. The YLCCC initiative – organized by UN CC:Learn, UNESCO Office, Jakarta, The Climate Reality project Indonesia, and Youth for Climate Change Indonesia, with the support from the Office of the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change – aimed at empowering 150 Indonesian students to take…