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UNITAR invites young entrepreneurs, innovators, civil servants, and other actors along the agricultural value chain in South Sudan to apply to the Great Ideas Space for South Sudan 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Training for Food Security.
The training programme aims to equip participants with the knowledge, skills and network to turn ideas into a business model that combat food insecurity, create jobs, and contribute to building resilience and sustainable food systems in South Sudan.
The deadline for the application is on 18 July 2023.
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6 and 10 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. UNITAR Executive Director, Carlos Lopes, visiting Singapore and Malaysia next week for a series of high-level meetings, was invited to deliver public lectures on challenges to multilateralism by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) on 6 June and Malaysian Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations on 10 June.
The lectures will discuss a qualitative change in international order over the past two decades and a new discourse that has gained prominence in the international relations theory and that emphasizes…
In the wake of the past eLearning Africa 2009 Conference (Dakar on May 27-29, 2009), UNITAR takes stock of past achievements in reaching out African participants through technologically intensive learning techniques such as e-Learning.
The percentage of African participants is quite significant. Despite logistical and technical difficulties, numbers show that e-learning is on an ascending trend as an educational means in Africa. UNITAR has been able to take measures of this growth.
According to 2008 internal statistics, the percentage of African participants among…
UNITAR and DevInfo partnered to train national actors on the new DiMonitoring tool for improving the creation and implementation of national to local development plans. Co-hosted by UNITAR and UNICEF (host agency for DevInfo) the workshop took place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from September 19-22 with over twenty-one participants ranging from Barbados to Bhutan.
The training provided participants with an applied understanding of the core DevInfo database technology, for both users and administrators, and how this can be used to develop territorial planning and its…
E-Learning course on Digital and Cyberdiplomacy
Digital and Cyberdiplomacy (12 November - 03 December 2018)
6 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - New digital technologies have had, and will continue to have, a profound impact on both the practice and content matter of diplomacy. The digital ecosystem in which diplomats operate offers new opportunities, especially for smaller states, but also challenges traditional activities and organisational structures. At the same time, cyberspace itself is throwing up a series of issues, range ranging from Internet governance to cyber…
CIFAL Bogota hosts the VI Sustainability Management Dialogue on “Corporate Government in the Digital Era”
8 November 2018, Bogota, Colombia - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Bogota (CIFAL Bogota) jointly with the Regional Center of the Private Sector for the Support of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations hosted the VI Sustainability Management Dialogue on “Corporate Government in the Digital Era”.
This event was held on 30 August 2018 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the…
Attorney General of Qatar and UN Special Advocate on the Prevention of Corruption
H.E. Dr. Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is the Attorney General of the State of Qatar (since 2002) and the UN Special Advocate on the Prevention of Corruption.
H.E. Dr. Ali bin Fetais has been a member of the United Nations International Law Commission since 2002. In September 2012, Dr. Ali bin Fetais was appointed Special Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the recovery of stolen assets. His responsibilities included supporting the activities…
国連ユニタールは、2025年8月25日から8月28日にかけて、アジア４か国および広島県からの若者計13名を迎え、「SDGsとデジタル未来：AIとデジタル・ストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修・スタディツアーを広島市内で開催しました。スタディツアーでは、広島平和記念資料館訪問や平和記念公園のVRガイドツアー、被爆者講話、デジタルツールの活用事例を学ぶワークショップや企業視察等を実施しました。最終日、参加者は、AIやデジタル技術を活用して制作するストーリーテリング企画を発表しました。, 2025年8月28日、広島 - 国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、2025年8月25日から8月28日にかけて、アジア４か国および広島県からの若者計13名を迎え、「SDGsとデジタル未来：AIとデジタル・ストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修・スタディツアーを広島市内で開催しました。同事業は、広島県および広島市の資金提供を受け、一般社団法人国連ユニタール協会の協力のもと国連ユニタールが実施しています。AIやデジタル・ストーリーテリングを社会変革のツールとして活用する能力を若者の間に育むことを目的としています。, 4日間にわたるスタディツアーは、8月25日に開始しました。株式会社スピングルカンパニーとのコラボレーションにより、参加者は「折り鶴再生スニーカ...
12 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. UNOSAT work in support to the international humanitarian and human rights communities was at the centre of discussions at the UNITAR-WMO Symposium on “leveraging satellite solutions for global challenges” that concluded successfully in Geneva on 12 October 2011. In closing the proceedings, Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, praised UNOSAT. “UNOSAT provides exceptional support to the humanitarian and human security communities” he said to an audience of 160 participants from Geneva based UN…
South Korean President Myung Bak Lee announced the national 5-Year Green Growth Strategy in 2009, positioning Korea as the global leader for Green Growth and Low-Carbon Development. From 11 to 13 November 2010, CIFAL Jeju convened over eight country delegations in Jeju Self-Governing Province, the leading area for Green Growth piloting for localization of national Green strategies. Since 2007, Jeju province was designated as the pilot area for Green Growth development, and as such the UNESCO World Heritage island harbours the richest variety of local examples in Green…