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Close to 100 Participants from the South Trained on Social Media Tools for Development in 2015
13 November 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - Today the “Innovative Collaboration for Development” Fall 2015 session ended, closing this year's sessions of the e-Learning course. In 2015, close to 100 participants coming from 44 countries, of which 36 are developing and Least Developed Countries were trained on the use of social media in a development context.
Throughout the year, three nine-week long online sessions were carried out in English, and one in French.
The course “…
Mrs Khaemeuy Chao is an employee of the technical staff of the Weather Forecasting and Warning Division, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Her role involves disseminating weather forecasts, issuing monitoring and analysing weather conditions for weather forecasts, and severe weather warnings, writing press releases, and compiling monthly summary reports. Recently, Mrs Chao decided to strengthen her capacity in this area by attending training courses organised by UNOSAT as par...
Enes Karaibrahimoglu heard about the opportunity to translate the course “Defending Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and jumped at the chance to get involved in translation for Turkish.
The course was created by UNITAR and UNESCO, while SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI) took the lead in coordinating translation efforts.
Enes hopes that translating the course into Turkish and other languages will foster more discussion about the use of AI, by getting more people interested in AI.
, 25 April 2023, Hiroshima, Japan - M...
18 November 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNOSAT delivered a week-long training in Serrekunda, The Gambia, on the use of Earth Observation (EO) and Geospatial Information Technologies (GIT) applications to support operational planning and decision-making for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience to government officials in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) and the UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries., The Gambia’s geographical location exposes the country to climate-related h...
17 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - As a first step to future cooperation, UNITAR and the International Ocean Institute (IOI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The two institutions formally agreed to seek mutually beneficial cooperation to fulfil their respective missions. UNITAR and the IOI recognized their common purpose as high standing learning, training, and capacity-building institutes. As such, the two organizations decided to actively collaborate in enhancing essential capacities of future leaders of developing countries for environmentally conscious ...
3 November 2022, Accra, Ghana - The Group on Earth Observation and the Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals (EO4SDG) Initiative announced the winners of the 2022 GEO SDG Awards at GEO Week 2022. The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) received the GEO Participating Organization Award for its Emergency Mapping service, recognizing the productivity, innovation, novelty and exemplary efforts in the use of Earth observations to support sustainable development. Launched in 2019, this annual award is presented to those making an impact on the 1...
E-Learning for a Green Recovery
24 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - Over the next 18 months, it is estimated that economic investment into national recovery packages will reach up to US$ 20 trillion. The make-up of these financial decisions will define the shape of our societies, our economies, and our environment for decades to come. We now sit at a “make or break moment” for both humanity and our planet, and the need for informed decision-making to support a green recovery is, therefore, greater than ever.
This is where the “Learning for a Green Reco...
3 December 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – The COP26 summit brought parties together to accelerate action towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With the rising urgency surrounding the global environmental crisis, climate change diplomacy is maturing to include a wide range of policy domains, from finance and the economy, to gender sensitive adaptative actions in climate negotiations.
In order to discuss the various implications of climate change diplomacy following the Glasgow Climate Change Conference, U...
Without women at the table, humanity cannot move forward. Bineta Diop, AU Special Envoy on WPS
From April 2021 to October 2023, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Office of the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security (OSE) jointly implemented the USAID-funded project “Accelerating the delivery of the WPS agenda on the African Continent” to enhance the full realization of this groundbreaking framework in Africa. As part of the project measures, a Gender Monitoring Sp...
14-15 July 2020, New York, USA, Zoom Workshop - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office organized a two-day virtual event, “The Structure, Drafting, and Adoption of the United Nations Resolutions” on 14-15 July 2020. This training was supported with funding allocated from the Swedish International Development Agency’s (SIDA) contribution to the UNITAR Strategic Framework Fund, under the programme ‘Leveling The Playing Field’ which focuses on the development of skills and knowledge of Least Developing Countries. The workshop was atte...