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Two years ago when Sitra Abubaker founded her digital marketing start-up Social.ly in Ethiopia, she admits she had no educational background and no professional experience to run a business. So when a friend told her about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s online course empowering women as entrepreneurs, she leaped at the chance.
“If I had to pick one thing … it’s understanding customers … developing a value proposition that is meaningful and relevant,” she says. “Everything I learned from this course has been helpful to my start-up.”
With Social.ly, Sitra wants to bridg...
The UNOSAT Emergency Mapping Service (UNOSAT-EMS) is a 24/7 service that provides satellite imagery analysis support following rapid on-set disasters, complex emergencies, and crises. The Service is free of charge for the emergency phase of the response. The UNOSAT-EMS was established in 2003 funded in the last three project cycles by Norway through Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The current phase of the project receives funding from the latter.
The interface of UNOSAT with the UN emergency response syst...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the third phase of Great Ideas Space: Entrepreneurship for Public Health and Covid-19 Recovery in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon in Japan.
Twenty entrepreneurs from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon will visit Tokyo and Hiroshima to participate in study tours and workshops.
The first two phases of the programme were run virtually. Participants engaged with peers and mentors through an interactive platform and webinars.
At the end of the in-person workshops, the participants will present their pitches – a culmination of in-depth discuss...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity will implement the Gender Empowerment Now! Project in Jordan and Lebanon.
The second phase on gender equality and women empowerment training programme kicks off on 5 April 2022.
Approximately 50 government officials will be trained to enhance their skills and knowledge in policy-making to address gender inequalities.
, 31 March 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR will launch the second phase of its Gender Empowerment Now! Project in Jordan and Lebanon. The project seeks to build the capacity of public institution...
31 January 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Prosperity Division launched today an innovative training programme on ‘Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development: Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship through Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Afghanistan and Iraq’.
The 3-month training programme which was made possible through the support from the Swedish International Development Agency’s (Sida) towards the UNITAR Strategic Framework Fund (SFF) offers a unique opportunity for women from these countries to build the...
We offer diverse range of learning solutions. These videos provide an overview of some of our solutions and explain concepts and methodologies., The Chemicals and Waste Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), through various projects, is supporting countries in their efforts to ratify and implement the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Among these projects is the Swiss funded UNITAR project on “Ratification and early implementation of the Minamata Convention on mercury”, being implemented in 16 countries. The objective of the projec...
December 2021 - Regardless of size, innovative and social businesses can create positive waves which reach beyond their communities to achieve national, or international status. It is this type of grassroots action which is necessary if the world is to address the challenges brought about by climate change., In Iraq, people use copious amounts of plastic. "We have oil, so plastic is very cheap here," says Mustafa Musa Jaber, a participant in the Iraqi youth entrepreneurship training programme run by the UNITAR Division for Prosperity. Awareness about plastic waste is only j...
10 June 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly undermined progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In fact, it remains difficult to get a complete picture of the damage wrought so far, and existing rough estimations are likely to be underestimates. However, the crisis has also served as a wake-up call for us to take action to create the world we want by 2030.
This was the central message from Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR, at an online symposium on “COVID-19’s Impa...
4 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – In August 2024, the UNITAR Future Global Youth Leaders Programme brought around 20 high school students from across the world to UNITAR headquarters in Geneva, providing them with the knowledge, skills and experiences necessary to lead in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. This programme round was completed in partnership with IC Education, a Chinese educational enterprise.The programme was divided into two parts: an introductory online learning phase and an intensive, in-person experience in Geneva. Th...
Angelamercy Baltazaryさんはタンザニアで助講師兼研究者として、有機廃棄物を養殖用タンパク質の飼料に変えています。Baltazaryさんは国連ユニタールの「アフリカの女性と若者を対象としたグリーン生計の開発：食料安全保障の強化と気候変動に強い経済活動の支援」研修の修了生であり、研修の最終フェーズとしての日本でのワークショップに成績上位者として招待されました。Baltazaryさんは、持続可能で気候変動に強いベンチャー企業の発展のための起業家精神とデジタル技術を身につけることを通して、自身の養殖ベンチャーを拡大するための実践的で革新的な戦略を学びました。, 2024年8月27日、広島 - タンザニアの起業家で助講師のAngela Baltazaryさんは、自然保護に情熱を注いでいます。国連ユニタールのグリーン生計に関する研修を通じて、彼女は有機廃棄物に含まれるメタンをタンパク質に変換するプロジェクトを開発し、着手しました。このような有機廃棄物の再利用は、温室効果ガスを削減すると同時に、タンザニアの公衆衛生と食料安全保障にも貢献します。, Baltazaryさんは自然を愛する人です。緑豊かな風景と野生動物が生息することで知られるカゲラ州で生まれ育ったBaltazaryさんは、高校生のときにセレンゲティ国立公園を訪れたとき、人生の...