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Geneva 18th June 2009 - UNITAR’s Climate Change Programme and partners presented the results of fourteen pilot projects in Asia and Africa that brought together scientists and local communities in Asia and Africa to develop climate change risk communication materials that support decision making, raise awareness and also implement concrete actions. The results from the project called Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) were presented at a side event held the 12th June 2009 during the June 2009, Bonn Climate Changes Talks.
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Geneva 14 March 2011. The aftermath of the catastrophic quake and tsunami in Japan has mobilised unprecedented participation from social networks and crowd sourcing communities around the world. Satellite imagery released for free by major commercial satellite companies earlier this week revealed to the world the extent of the impact of the tsunami waves that hit the east coast of Japan on Friday 11 March. Japan is using various satellite sensors and is coping with the technical work necessary to turn this large amount of data into useful information for rescue and…
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) - which is the main forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making between key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners - and UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully launched the new e-Learning course on information management in humanitarian crises on 26 April 2011. This course, which will end on 17 June 2011, aims at strengthening the information management skills of humanitarian coordination professionals of partner agencies both at headquarters and in the field.
The course has been designed by…
In its continued effort to encourage and promote the voices of young women in the peace and security field, UNITAR has developed the She Leads for Peace Summer School, an innovative programme specifically tailored towards young women seeking to situate their career objectives as well as passions in the wider sustaining peace ecosystem. The She Leads for Peace Summer School is rooted in the main themes and teachings of the Women's Leadership for Peace Programme as well as the understanding that gender shapes young people’s opportunities, actions, and pathways. The She Leads ...
UNOSAT is increasingly active in both crowdsourcing and geo-tagging. To expand its experience in the latter, UNOSAT is working in partnership with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre to test an experimental geo-tagging system called Gloe, developed by HP Labs, a sponsor of the CCC project. The intention is to verify the usability of Gloe in support of development work and humanitarian aid in the field. UNOSAT and the CCC partners are hoping to determine which applications are more suitable to collaborative mapping and crowdsourcing for thematic mapping, especially in Africa.…
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative
Harvard Business School
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Linda is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on leadership. Linda was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Linda is the author or co-author of several award-winning articles and books including…
27 April 2023, Katowice, Poland – Between April 20 to 26, 2023, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Plock continued its efforts to promote the Autosobriety Training Programme, aimed at preventing drink-driving. The Programme was featured at the Local Career and Professional Development Fair capturing the attention of primarily young individuals who have just finished college and are looking for career advice.
During the four-hour event, around 80 people learned about the programme, using virtual reality glasses and video materials ...
Koto Kajihara is a high school student from Hiroshima, Japan, who is a passionate advocate for peace.Koto joined the 2024 UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia-Pacific Programme, which brings together youth from the region to deepen their understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals while practicing entrepreneurship, leadership and problem-solving skills.The 8-week programme is organized by UNITAR and ITS Education Asia.Koto won the 2024 Youth Ambassador Impact Prize for her project to support a Hiroshima-based non-profit organization that provides warm meals to children throu...
19 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - As the international community and the public celebrate today the World Humanitarian Day the crisis in the Horn of Africa continues to unfold as humanitarian agencies step up their response. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought is gripping much of the Horn of Africa and Somalia in particular. According to OCHA “this is the gravest food crisis in the world, and the situation is getting worse”. UNOSAT is working since July to help chart the extent of the emergency.
Since July UNOSAT has been tasked to…
Approaches to Address Risk Factors for Road Traffic Crashes Discussed at UNITAR’s National Road Safety Workshop in New Delhi
22 - 23 August 2017, New Delhi, India - UNITAR in collaboration with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India, and with the support of Diageo and the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) conducted a two-day capacity building workshop on “Improving Road Safety and Transport Systems” in New Delhi on 22 and 23 August 2017. The workshop convened transport secretaries from Indian States, local authorities, road…