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Title: Research Assistant, Capital Markets Authority
Country: Kenya
Training programme: Fundamentals of Microfinance (AGFUND)*
Hilary Mulindi grew up surrounded by the beautiful landscapes of Western Kenya, with the world’s finest lakes, mountains and plains right before his eyes. Later on, he moved to Nakuru where he pursued his undergraduate studies in economics and statistics with a focus on Econometrics from Laikipia University. Today, Hillary has accumulated over 5 years of experience in financial markets research and policy, and currently works as a research assistan...
28 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - SURGhub, the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub, is now available to all healthcare providers across the world.
Led by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), and association with the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, this initiative aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of the current and future global surgical care workforce.
SURGhub’s primary focus is to support frontline workers in low-reso...
28 September 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - SURGhub is an initiative led by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in partnership with the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and with a content curation process led by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). It provides a central UN-based platform for high-quality, context and curriculum-appropriate learning content in global surgery. In doing so, SURGhub aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of the current and future global surgical care workforce.
With the new mobile app, users will now...
11 April 2024, Geneva, Switzerland - As our global learning community is growing at a faster pace than ever (almost 400k certificates issued!), we invite our alumni to take part in our contest to become the next UN CC:Learn Champion.
Our alumni are drivers of change in their communities, and we want once again to give them a platform to showcase their work and initiatives.
We want to hear from you – our alumni – what you have been doing to address the climate crisis in your community, workplace, or household as a result of taking our courses. Your impact stories...
"Peace is our most precious value and the essence of our work. All that we strive for as a human family depends on peace. But peace depends on us.”
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Seungjae Lee is a student striving to help refugees in Hong Kong through a tutoring programme.Seungjae joined the UNITAR 2024 Youth Ambassador Asia-Pacific Programme themed "Local Solutions for Global Challenges: Youth Empowerment and Community Impact”.Through the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Programme, Seungjae learned how to structure his community project and expand it to a higher level and potentially to an international scale.Through his projects, Andy supports refugees in tutoring, which aligns with the Sustainable Development Goal 4 Quality Education, he set the goal of e...
30 August 2008 - The second edition of the annual Retreat convened by the United Nations Secretary-General took place in Torino, Italy, on 29 and 30 August 2008. The Retreat provides an opportunity for top UN officials to exchange ideas and reflect on how best the Organization can tackle current challenges and discharge its high profile responsibilities more effectively. The annual event has been organized as a joint effort between UNITAR, the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), and the Department of Management in the UN Secretariat.
The Secretary-General, Mr. BAN...
10 October 2018, Atlanta, United States – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Atlanta (CIFAL Atlanta) and the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Greater Atlanta hosted a raising awareness event at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.
The primary work of the RCE is to offer broad-based, multi-stakeholder educational and training programs to support regional sustainable development efforts. The RCE aims to create a new regional model for collective impact, by harnessing higher education capacity and knowledge for regional be...
梶原 心瞳さんは日本・広島出身の高校生で、平和活動に熱心に取り組んでいます。彼女は、起業家精神やリーダーシップ能力、課題解決力を養いながら、持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）への理解を深めることを目的とした、アジア太平洋地域の若者向けプログラム「2024年国連ユニタール青少年大使・アジア太平洋プログラム」に参加しました。この8週間のプログラムは、国連ユニタールとITSエデュケーションアジアの共催により実施されたものです。心瞳さんは、日本全国の子どもたちに温かい食事を提供している広島拠点の非営利団体を支援するプロジェクトにより、「2024年青少年大使インパクト賞」を受賞しました。, 2025年6月13日、広島 - 広島の高校生である梶原 心瞳さんは、平和を推進する活動に情熱を持つ若きアドボケイトです。彼女は、「2024年国連ユニタール青少年大使・アジア太平洋プログラム」を修了した26人の若きチェンジメーカーの一人です。, 心瞳さんの平和への思いは、学校の課外活動「千羽鶴クラブ」（広島インターナショナルスクール）から始まりました。このクラブでは、世界中から送られてくる希望と平和の象徴である折り鶴を、広島平和記念公園へ届け、捧げるという活動を40年以上も続けています。 「折り鶴はただの紙きれではありません。それは世界中の人々の想いや願い、希望...
According to the Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory, between 1960 and 2016, 16879 children were recruited in Colombia by different illegal armed groups, 54% of them were recruited by the FARC-EP. Nowadays, Colombian children and youth continue to be at risk of recruitment by other illegal armed groups and urban criminal gangs.
Pintando el Futuro (Painting the Future), the first component of the project “Youth-led Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia: A Transformational Approach”, aims to strengthen the capacity of local communities to help prevent the (re-) ...