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Susan Wanjiru is a Kenyan entrepreneur who is passionate about raising and empowering all women.
Susan joined the 2022 UNITAR Online Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme for Women and Girls in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region.
The online entrepreneurial training provided Susan with the tools to be financially disciplined and the steps to plan, manage and assess risk.
The UNITAR training programme is run in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat and the United Nations Develop...
UNITAR launched its new training programme “Developing Green Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Africa: Strengthening Food Security, Supporting Climate Resilient Economies” on 9 November 2023 at an online event hosted from Geneva.
Guests included dignitaries, government officials and programme partners, as well as participants of the new programme.
150 women and youth participants from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe with a passion for development will gain skills to support climate-resilient economies.
The programme will run from November 2023 to February 2024 and have ...
In global business, disputes and conflicts are inevitable. The University of Bolton (UoB) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have co-developed an MBA in Alternative Dispute Resolution programme, designed to equip students with the skills to develop efficient, practical, and astute strategies for resolving such issues, outside of the traditional courtroom setting.Delivered jointly by UoB and UNITAR, the programme is taught fully online, with the unique opportunity for participants to spend one week in Geneva, receiving hands-on training facil...
July Edition: Field Visit: 07 July – 11 July 2025 / E-Learning Course: 09 June - 04 July 2025 / Premium Package: 09 June - 11 July 2025, This year, UNITAR is delighted to deliver its next edition of the UN Immersion Programme to the Hague, Netherlands. It will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into the city of peace and justice and thereby gain first-hand experience of the United Nations there. UNITAR will host most of the activit...
In line with its commitments to the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNITAR is strengthening its partnership with the University for Peace (UPEACE) to launch two new Master of Arts : the M.A. in International Law and Diplomacy, and the M.A. in Development Studies and Diplomacy. , The Master of Arts in International Law and Diplomacy (online and hybrid formats) is a two-year graduate programme permitting students to specialize in the interface between international law and diplomacy. It will not only broaden student’s knowledge in the field of i...
23 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have launched a Call for Applications for their joint online course on Agri-food Export Promotion Policy and Practical Tools which will take place from September 6 to October 1, 2021. The course will be facilitated by Experts and delivered fully in Russian language in asynchronous manner.
A better trade policy environment for modern agrifood markets requires the development of capacity to understand both t...
30 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - From 29th to 30th March 2021, UNITAR, ESCAP, UNDP, and UNDESA teamed up for a virtual training on the Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF), held over 3 half-days. Titled “Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) and Budgeting for the 2030 Agenda: Financing Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery”, the first day took a deep dive into the INFF building block on integrated financing strategies, including country cases and practical experiences based on DFA findings. The second and the third days focused on the alignment of...
Kossiwa J. Tossoukpe is the founder of KESecurix - Diversity in Security, and a former police officer in Zurich, Switzerland. At age 21, she was the youngest in her police academy class, and the first Black woman to join the force. Kossiwa studied at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a Master's degree in International Relations and Global Security. She was also a Trainee at UNITAR's Division for Peace, supporting the pre-deployment training team. Kossiwa's consultancy firm focuses on enhanc...
Over the past decade or two, increasing efforts have been directed to promote gender equality and empowerment of women in all sectors of society, including women’s participation in leadership and decision-making positions. To contribute to this common objective, the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and UNITAR organised a series of three e-workshops on gender, women’s leadership and mentoring in November and December 2020. The series aimed to strengthen female leaders’ confidence, resilience and leadership capacities, and targeted women and men in leadership pos...
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Bangkok, Thailand, 11 October 2011 (IRIN) - As residents across flood-ravaged Southeast Asia look up to the skies and brace for more rain, satellites 35,800km away are looking down on them.
Space technology has become a critical tool in protecting people from disasters in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, where more than 6.5 million people have been affected by recent flooding and at…