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UNITAR will co-organize a Summit of the Future side event “Intergenerational Dialogue for a Sustainable Future: Shaping Inclusive Society through Digital Power” on 19 September (10:15–11:30 a.m. EDT [UTC-4]) in New York and online.This Summit of the Future side-event will be co-organized with the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York, the Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations in New York, the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva, and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth.Leaders and youth represe...
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UNITAR is launching its Strategic Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Empowering the Sahel Region through Digital Reskilling and Upskilling to Enhance Productive Sources of Livelihood and Employment training programme on 15 November 2021.
The programme is for women and youth in the Sahel region interested in digital technologies and motivated to make a positive impact on society.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to transform their entrepreneurial ideas into digital products to empower others in their communities.
The 6-week onl...
10 April 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Sovereign Order of Malta successfully hosted a Human Rights Council side event titled, "After 25 Years of the Palermo Protocol – The Need for Real Action".Focusing on strengthening global efforts to combat human trafficking through capacity-building and training, the event brought together a plethora of experts in the field, encouraging rich dialogue and raising awareness of the remaining pitfalls in current methods following the General Assembly Resolution...
UNITAR Training Programme “Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Food Security and Economic Development in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon” is now accepting applications from young entrepreneurs ages 18 to 45 in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon.Participants will learn the fundamentals and advanced entrepreneurship concepts focusing on food security to achieve economic development and fight food insecurity.The programme will run from July 2024 until March 2025 and the application deadline is 30 June 2024.(As of 1 July, the application deadline has been extended to 7 July.), 28 May 2024...
Emmanuel Mutabazi is a digital skills advocate in Rwanda committed to reducing the digital divide. Through his foundation, he offers inclusive digital skills training programmes for communities that lack access to digital resources.With a background in ICT and youth empowerment, Emmanuel strives to close the digital skills gap and promote digital equality for young people and women in Rwanda.He participated in the UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” programme, where he further developed his skills to realize his goals., 27 November 202...
UNITAR Women's leadership workshops are designed to equip women with the tools and knowledge needed to not only succeed, but excel in leadership roles. They foster an environment where self-confidence is nurtured, assertive communication is honed, and valuable mentorship relationships are forged. The skills acquired during these workshops are not merely theoretical; they are pragmatic, and ready to be applied in real-world scenarios.This program is also a response to the pressing need to address and challenge gender stereotypes that persist worldwide. By providing a pl...
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) is a process through which members of armed forces and groups are supported to lay down their weapons and return to civilian life. As a complex process, it comprehends political, security, social and economic dimensions aimed at creating an environment where a peace process, political and social reconciliation, as well as sustainable development, can take place.To compile lessons learned from DDR programmes implemented throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR (IAWG-DDR) developed and publ...
What is the Academy?
The Academy aims to build capacities and facilitate experience-sharing among key stakeholders from SEA in support of a clean and inclusive energy transition. A coaching mechanism will provide attendees with an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge and skills that they acquire during the Academy, with the training focusing on four countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines) that represent around 80% of the region’s total energy share and population.
The Academy will be conducted virtually (with some face-to-face elements) with...
Lucretia Dreyer, a South African disability inclusion advocate, completed the 2023 UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme.The programme showed Lucretia the significant potential of assistive technologies in helping children with disabilities learn coding and robotics.Lucretia hopes to establish an inclusive coding and robotics programme where children with and without disabilities can learn together.The Japan-funded UNITAR programme ran from November 2023 to March 2024 and aimed to prepare 7,000 women and youth fro...
UNITAR launched the second phase of the "Leaders for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Sea and Human Security" (FOIP) training programme on 10 September 2024 in Jakarta.The second phase began with the opening ceremony for a 10-Day Jakarta Workshop, which welcomed around 80 participants from 12 countries across Asia. High-level representatives from the government of Indonesia also attended the ceremony. The aim of the second phase of the programme is to equip leaders and officials from Asia’s public and private sectors through in-person workshops with the skills and strateg...