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Franklin University Switzerland and UNITAR organized a joint event during the Open Geneva Hackathon Festival. The online Hackathon "Food as a nexus for synchronic urban and rural development" offered a platform to generate innovative ideas to rethink and improve food as a linkage for development in rural and urban areas. The hackathon lasted three days and was delivered entirely online, allowing participants worldwide to join the event.
The event included the participation of UN-Habitat, FAO and UNITAR experts to facilitate workshops and group work activities. Four w...
Mwikali Munyao, Kenyan carpenter and entrepreneur, participated in the first round of the UNITAR Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, Mwikali lost her job as a customer service agent. She decided to pursue her interest in carpentry and turned it into a business.
The UNITAR training taught her the entrepreneurial skills she needed and helped her business overcome financial challenges.
The second round of the UNITAR entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership training programme, r...
Name: Hana Ali
Title: Entrepreneur
Country: Iraq/UK/Germany
Fellowship: UNITAR COVID-19 Response & Recovery Programme: Mobilizing Resilient Social Entrepreneurs to Address Food Insecurity and Unemployment for Youth in Iraq
“I once heard a really fantastic quote. It goes a little something like this: ‘take one small step every day, and at the end of the year you will have taken 365 steps”, says Hana Ali with smiley eyes. Based on her experience, consistency is the best advice she can give to anyone willing to join the entrepreneurial world. “A lot of people feel discour...
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) is a joint mechanism between five UN agencies, of which the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is one. Hosted and led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), PAGE aims to help Member States embark on a greener and more inclusive growth trajectory by putting sustainability at the heart of economic policies and practices to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this regard, PAGE seeks to support countries and regions foster sustainable economic growth, create income and j...
Title: Head of Office, UNDRR Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute
Country: Republic of Korea
Partnership: e-learning courses on Disaster Management at Local Level
If we learnt one thing from history is that we cannot achieve sustainable development without taking Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) seriously. Sanjaya Bhatia, who oversees the capacity development work of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), knows it from experience. Sanjaya started his career in the civil service in India working in the districts, which a...
Country: The Gambia
Partnership: Scaling-up the national response to non-communicable diseases to achieve the sustainable development goal 3.4; reducing by one third pre-mature mortality from NCDs by 2030
The Gambia is Africa’s smallest non-island country and one of its most densely populated. The Smiling Coast, as it is also known due to its location on the map cutting through the middle of Senegal in a position that appears like that of a smile, has a significant young population – about two-thirds is under age 30. Yet roughly 37 per cent of its people died in 2019 from ...
Title: Law School Professor; PhD in Law, PhD in Political Science
Country: USA/Spain
Partnership: Gender Equality in the International Human Rights Framework Building Back Stronger
Academic institutions undeniably play an essential role in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Primarily, it is in academia that the creative thinking needed to solve some of the most pressing challenges of our world is developed. Sometimes, however, it is not easy to bring together academic institutions and other sectors of society to work around some of these challenges...
Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu was the first safety and protection cluster coordinator for Tonga. In 2018, she participated in the UNITAR Women’s Leadership on Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme.The UNITAR programme introduced Lavinia to disaster risk reduction principles and continues to be the foundation on which she builds her work in disaster management.UNITAR featured Lavinia's work in developing standards for Tonga and fostering the community-government relationship. She updates us on what she's been working on since then., 23 August 2024, Hir...
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...
“She believed she could, so she did!” One look at Rose's motto on Skype is enough to give you an idea of this young woman's positive mindset. Born in Baghdad 26 years ago, she's been working as a project engineer at a construction company since 2013, and was one of the twenty-four selected Fellows for the 2016 Cycle.
“I am a dreamer girl, and I'm always interested in trying something different: even in my daily work, I'm not into sticking to the same routine. So, my current job will certainly not by my final career choice. In the future, I plan to work in the…