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Sonath Abdul Sattar recalls when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the Maldives in 2004.
We did not know what a tsunami was; we thought it was a big wave. And we waited and watched – we saw the water receding outside so we could see the reefs. And then when it crashed, it was coming with the dead fish and everything. We were not aware at all.
It was a pivotal moment in Sonath’s life. In the aftermath, Sonath began volunteering for the country’s relief efforts. It began her career in disaster management, a path which eventually brought her to Japan to take part in the UNITAR ...
広島県内およびアジア地域在住の18歳～24歳の若者を対象に、国連ユニタール「SDGsとデジタル未来：AIとデジタルストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修の参加者を募集します。本研修では、若いチェンジメーカーがAIやデジタル技術を活用したインパクトのあるストーリーテリングの方法を学びます。本研修は2025年6月に開始し、約5ヶ月間にわたって実施されます。本研修は、広島県および広島市の支援と日本マイクロソフト株式会社の協力のもと、国連ユニタール広島事務所が運営します。応募締切りは、2025年5月31日（日本時間 午前10時）です。, 2025年5月2日、広島 – 国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）広島事務所は、国連ユニタール「SDGsとデジタル未来：AIとデジタルストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修の参加者を、広島県内およびアジア地域の若者を対象に募集します。この研修では、若いチェンジメーカーがAIを含むデジタルメディアを活用したストーリーテリングプラットフォームを使い、社会にインパクトを与えるストーリーを作成する方法を学びます。研修は、2025年6月7日に開始し、約5か月間にわたって実施されます。応募締切りは、2025年5月31日（日本時間 午前10時）です。参加者の募集人数は、広島県在住の若者約10名と、その他アジア地域在...
A breakthrough initiative by the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership is bringing students together via video link to talk about climate change, informing the climate debate and adding new perspectives to climate change education across the globe.
By Sara Tchaparian// 30th March 2017 // Climate Change Education// Youth
“What will the future be like when the glaciers have melted because of climate change?”
This is a question put to a class of Swiss teenagers via video link by 16-year old Joyce Jelasi from Malawi. It conjures up images of a potential…
26 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR and Franklin University Switzerland (FUS) – a Swiss/American accredited liberal arts university in Lugano, Switzerland – hosted a three-day online hackathon event during the Open Geneva Hackathon Festival. The event was organized and managed by three graduating students: Cristina Elvira Pérez, Jacqueline Lemon, and Ugo Bernasconi, from the Master’s programme in International Management with an emphasis on Responsible Management and Climate Action at FUS in partnership with UNITAR.
The hackathon aimed to foster creative and integ...
Breastfeeding is low-cost yet easily meets the nutritional needs of young babies. In other words, breastfeeding promises food security for babies and eases some of the household’s financial burdens. BFEI provides healthcare professionals and communities with evidence-based resources to advocate for exclusive breastfeeding, which supplies infants with all the necessary nutrients during the first six months of life., Every year, 3 million children die due to undernutrition. Breastfeeding could help avert many of these unnecessary deaths since breastmilk provides all the nutri...
6 April 2022 - This virtual side event organized by UNITAR, as part of the Crowd4SDG project, brought together passionate stakeholders involved with Citizen Science Data (CSD). Speakers shared their experience working with citizen scientists, as well as enabling the use of CSD by National Statistical Offices and Systems (NSOs and NSSs).
Ms. Hayoi Chen, Coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys at the UN Statistics Division moderated this session and representatives from UNITAR, Office for National Statistics UK (ONS), the Dutch National Insti...
26 April 2023, Hangzhou, China. Tremendous amounts of data generated every day represent significant opportunities for National Statistical Systems (NSS) to improve the timeliness, granularity and quality of information about our societies. Yet, many NSOs, particularly in developing countries, struggle to ensure they have sufficient staff with relevant competencies to harness these opportunities or at times even to produce basic statistics. Building sustainable statistical programs at the national level can help strengthen the capacities of staff of the NSOs and NSS o...
The National Adaptation Plans (NAP), coordinated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aim to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience. It further facilitates the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities (1). UNITAR is involved in several of the programmes of the NAP process such as the Integrating Agriculture in NAPs (NAP-Ag) and it is a partner in the NAP Global Support Programme (NA...
13 April 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Flooding is the most frequent type of disaster, affecting more than 2 billion people in the 20 years between 1998 and 2017 alone. When disaster hits, it is of vital importance to quickly know which areas have been affected in order to assess the potential damage and inform humanitarian relief efforts.
Within the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) supports teams on the ground to assess the impact of floods through its rapid mapping service. How this...
Working towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires behavioural changes at various levels throughout global systems. Training and capacity-building are powerful ways that we can change behaviours, which is why it is important that learning design integrates behavioural science (BeSci) principles and knowledge.What is BeSci?As stated by the UN 2.0 initiative, nurturing behavioural science is about fostering our knowledge of how people act and make decisions – to create better choices and positive change that work with, not against, the grain of human nature.Behav...