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Dr Marwa Nofal is a psychiatrist at a public mental health hospital in Egypt.
In 2020, she launched a non-profit organization that brings together mental health professionals to facilitate more mental health research in Egypt and the Middle East and the North African region.
Dr Marwa turned to the UNITAR Entrepreneurship for Public Health and COVID-19 Recovery in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon programme to learn about leadership strategies, entrepreneurship and teamwork.
Marwa's advice for fellow entrepreneurs is to take action, no matter how small.
, 15 May 2023, H...
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop) is a forum where world leaders come together to collectively act towards achieving the climate goals agreed under the Paris Agreement and Convention.
This year’s conference, which took place in Sharm el-Sheikh, brought together six high-level roundtable sessions on cross-cutting issues, including food security, water security, finance, energy security, vulnerable communities, and transition from fuels. A tweet from Ambassador Mohamed Nasr, Director General for Climate, Egyptian, expressed his views behind the urgency behi...
An Independent Evaluation of UNOSAT Rapid Mapping Service (RMS) was published in July 2018. Using a mixed methods approach, it was the first independent evaluation of the Rapid Mapping Service since its inception in 2003. The evaluation included an online survey with a 20.8% response rate and key informant interviews covering 38% of institutional stakeholders, along with a theory of change analysis and a comprehensive desk review. For each evaluation criterion, the evaluation applied a rating, using a four-point scale traffic light system of green, amber and red.as practice...
3 December 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The ambitious agenda of COP 26 to accelerate action towards and beyond the goals of the Paris agreement may have been a let-down for most people. For the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), it was also an opportunity to promote once more the added value of satellite-derived information for improving climate resilience.
The conference was “an important step but not enough” in the words of António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Despite the negotiations underdelivering, many insightful events took place, where d...
UNITAR will host a public event to mark the culmination of the in-person workshop for the Japan-funded Leaders for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Sea and Human Security training programme on 21 February 2025 at the Elizabeth Rose Conference Hall, United Nations University, Tokyo.The event, titled “Ways Forward for Ocean Action in the Indo-Pacific” is open to both in-person and online participation and will be livestreamed on UNITAR Hiroshima’s YouTube channel.The programme will feature a keynote lecture, policy brief presentations by selected tr...
On 4 February 2025, UNITAR welcomed 17 professionals from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon to Japan for the Phase 3 workshop of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation training programme.The workshop will run from 4 February to 11 February and will be held in Tokyo and Hiroshima.In this final phase, participants will focus on refining their business and project plans in the agriculture and food sectors, developed during the previous phases, into feasible and practical business enterprises.On the final day of the workshop, the participants are expected to pitch ideas to showcas...
“International relations tells us to operate from the head. I think in peacemaking and preventive diplomacy, it is also important that the heart is involved.”
When Kamsiah Kamaruddin, Deputy Director General of the ASEAN Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, applied to take part in the first UNITAR Regional Training Programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy for the Asia-Pacific, she had served in a number of bi-lateral posts and engaged in a series of…
The close collaboration between UNITAR and the Ecole de Maintien de la Paix Alioune Blondin Beye(EMPABB) aims at contributing to international and regional efforts towards sustaining peace and security in Mali, by supporting the preparation of African military contingents and Formed Police Units (FPUs) prior to their deployment to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This project will also lead to strengthening capacities of EMPABB to act as a centre of excellence in preparing military contingents and FPUs prior to…
The CommonSensing project is funded by the United Kingdom Space Agency and aims to strengthen disaster risk reduction and climate change resilience in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu through 1) increasing national resource capacities in the use of Earth Observation (EO) solutions to address disaster risk reduction and climate change resilience by 2020, and 2) enhancing evidence-based decision making by using CS solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (CCA).
The endline evaluation assesses the project’s effectiveness, efficiency and likel...
23 August 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - Asia-Pacific stands at the forefront of the climate crisis. It’s the world’s most carbon-intensive region – accounting for over half of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, it is also one of the most vulnerable – home to many of the developing countries most at risk of climate change.These climate impacts are diverse – from melting glaciers in the Himalayas to flooding and extreme heatwaves in South Asia. And they are already impacting people’s lives – affecting agriculture, destroying homes, and threatening the liv...