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CIFAL Curitiba Organizes Workshop on Compliance and Integrity
18 October 2018, Curitiba, Brazil – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) jointly with the Management of Risks and Compliance Division of the FIEP System hosted a one-day-workshop on “Compliance and Integrity Programs” designed to promote and strengthen the implementation of integrity and anti-corruption programs.
Sustainable Development Goal # 16 “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” encourage countries to secure accountable institutions at all levels.…
UNITAR Executive Director invited as a guest speaker at the Brazilian Congress on Innovations contributed to a brainstorming organized for the 4th time by the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on 3 August 2011. The meeting brought together heads of relevant ministries, presidents of principal public development agencies including FINEP, SEBRAE, and national development bank BNDES, leadership of national and foreign companies based in Brazil, as well as a number of foreign guests in the context of this year’s theme – World…
On 8 and 9 March 2011, the UNITAR New York Office organized the fifth annual Workshop on Elections to United Nations Organs with over 35 participants. The workshop was designed to respond to the specific needs of election officers - many of them new to this position or newly posted at the United Nations altogether. The course aimed to equip participants with the necessary overview and tools to identify opportunities for candidatures and to provide them with insights and experience of successful campaigning.
The workshop was divided into two parts. On the one hand,…
In cooperation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of São Tomé and Principe and with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of São Tomé, UNITAR has successfully implemented two workshops for the benefit of diplomats and government officials of São Tomé. The first training focused on the training of trainers and the second on conference diplomacy and multilateral negotiations.
His Excellency Mr. Manuel Salvador dos Ramos, Minister of Foreign Affairs and His Excellency Américo de Oliveira dos Ramos, Minister of Finances and International Cooperation…
25 April - 1 July 2011
The Local Development Programme of UNITAR is launching a new session of its proven e-learning course Governance in Urban Sanitation, in English language. This e-course has been awarded with the International ECBCheck Quality Label for e-Learning!
The course, which will run from 25 April to 1st July 2011, aims to enhance the capacity of local decision-makers and sanitation professionals to make the most enlightened decisions and investments in the area of urban sanitation. It provides analytical tools to understand the financial and institutional…
The International Law Programme is implementing the Spanish version of its series of e-courses on International Environmental Law (IEL) due to the high demand from Latin American Countries for this kind of training.
Latin America comprises several countries with a wide variety of cultures that share a great deal in common and must prepare themselves for new environmental challenges. Today, many Latin American countries have to implement numerous Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) at national levels with limited financial, technical and particularly human…
10-12 May 2011, Bergen, Norway. During the 2011 GDACS Stakeholders Meeting, a crowd-sourcing application for geo-tagged photos was released to the disaster management and early responders community.
Developed under the EC funded GEO-PICTURES project by AnsuR, in collaboration with UNOSAT, this Android app automatically geo-locates (tags) photos, size them according to bandwidth and send them off to a web-server - all with the touch of one button. In the web-server, photo location is indicated on a map, and the photo can be further assessed, shared…
18-19 April 201, Jakarta, Indonesia - In cooperation with the Diplomatic Academy of Indonesia, UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) organized a two day training workshop for Junior, Mid-level and Senior Diplomats from Indonesia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). On the first day the senior diplomats received a briefing on Leadership, where they got to know the evolution and the different theories of leadership leading to a value based and transformational leadership.
This session helped the participants demystify the concept of leadership…
28 June - 30 June 2011, New York, USA. The UNITAR New York Office organizes a “Workshop on the structure, retrieval and use of United Nations documentation”, jointly organized with the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and in cooperation with the Office of Legal Affairs. On both days, the workshop will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The workshop will inform new delegates in permanent missions to the United Nations in New York how to identify and electronically retrieve the documents of the various organs of the United Nations. The workshop…
25 July to 23 September 2011, Social Media Tools, e-learning course. In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development, an e-learning course on social media tools.
UNITAR is pleased to announce the opening of registrations of a special session, taking place from 25 July to 23…