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My Experience as a PAGE Trainer
04 July 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - Rahinatu Sidiki Alare is a Technical Officer at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) at the University of Ghana. She is part of the PAGE Community of Trainers that was launched through a training of trainers (ToT) event in Turin in October 2016. Here is a short up-date from her on how she is using what she has learned in Turin back home in Ghana:
“The Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies organizes regular seminars during which experts in related fields share research…
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...
By Pilar Lagos
Originally published on the PAGE website.
Mr. Martin van Brakel currently works at the WorldFish Bangladesh & South Asia office as a Fisheries Scientist. He is leading the efforts to improve livelihoods of communities that rely on the hilsa shad (ilish fish) for the Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH) project. Occasionally, he works as a consultant to assess aquatic resource-based livelihoods practices and ecotourism development, including recreational fisheries in other countries in the South Asia…
More than 60 Learning Institutions Worldwide Agree on How Best to Provide Education and Training for a Sustainable Future
16-18 December, Paris, France – At OECD headquarters this week, more than 100 individuals from over 60 institutions gathered at the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning. Participants discussed global and national approaches to green economy learning and explored opportunities to collaborate with the goal of up-scaling it.
Participants of the Forum included policy-makers, development partners as well as representatives from education and training…
21 December 2023, Online/Dubai, UAE - From the 4th to the 10th December, UNITAR hosted three events at COP28 for UN CC Learn’s Climate Classrooms, entitled; Tackling Plastic Pollution; Sustainable Marine Transportation; Upskilling for Decarbonization, and two in-person events at COP28, first with CIFAL City of London on December 5th entitled ‘Sustainable Development and Higher Education’, and second with RES4City at the ‘United in Science 2023’ event on December 10th.
The first event "Tackling Plastic Pollution," on December 4th, 2023 provided an interactive session ...
10 March 2022, New York, United States (Virtual) – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York office, in partnership with the Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic, kickstarted the three-event Spring 2022 presentations of the Columbia Law School Series with the first session titled, “Women and Negotiation: How to Be Your Own Ultimate Self-Advocate”. Garnering over 120 participants from around the world, the event successfully highlighted the struggles faced by women in the workplace, and how best to combat gender inequality in social setti...
UNEP Executive Directors warn about Global Warming. Reported by NTV Kenya.
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From 28 June – 2 July 2009, UNITAR teamed up with the Global Environmental Governance Project, a joint initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the College of William and Mary, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Center to organize the Global Environmental Governance Forum: Reflecting on the Past, Moving into the Future, Montreux, Switzerland. The event immediately followed the first meeting of…
COP20 Side Event Shows How Countries are Putting their National Adaptation Plans into Practice
4 December 2014, Lima, Peru - While ‘NAP’ (short for National Adaptation Plan) was just another international buzzword a few years ago, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are translating the concept into reality, influencing planning and budgeting at national, sub-national and local levels. At the same time LDCs are facing extreme and very pressing challenges as a result of climate change, in particular in the Sahel region.
The extent of the work that is being done…
The UNITAR Operational Satellite Training Programme (UNOSAT) contributes to human security, peace and socio-economic development by providing integrated satellite-based solutions for governments as well as relief and development organizations within and outside the UN system. As part of its capacity development activities, a two-week training programme took place in Bhutan, with support from the State of Qatar. With funding through the newly-established Strategic Framework Fund, the programme aimed to enhance the use of geospatial technologies for evidence-based decision ma...
21 January 2009
Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.. CIFAL Findhorn in partnership with the Scottish Government will be hosting a day long conference which will provide the opportunity to explore Scotlands contribution to the first half of the Decade and plan for the second half. The focus of the day will be broad, we will look at contributions to ESD across all sectors, including schools, colleges, universities and community learning networks. The conference will open with keynote talks by Mark Richmond, Director of the Division for the Coordination of UN Priorities in Education,…