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Name: W.A. Kumudu Sanjeewa
Title: Head of Communications and Information Management (CIMU), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: South Sudan
Partnership: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
South Sudan is ranked among the five countries in the world most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In the past years, the country has seen wet seasons becoming wetter, and dry seasons getting even drier. As a result, devastating floods are mercilessly hitting its population with increasingly destructive pow...
Exclusive Edition - 07 - 11 April 2025 , UNITAR is delighted to deliver the third edition of field visit to Geneva specifically tailored for postgraduate students of MA in Translation and Interpreting from Newcastle University. It will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into the UN ecosystem and learn from professional interpreters first-hand.UNITAR will host most of the activities in the historic Palais des Nations and the UNITAR headquarters, located at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) building in Geneva. They will consist of a...
UNITAR has partnered with Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations to offer an Online Master of Science in International Affairs and Diplomatic Practice.Practitioners will explore contemporary diplomacy against the changing nature of world politics and investigate the complexities of relationships between different countries. Through a series of seven courses and six modules, students will build upon their knowledge and skills in international security, policy analysis, negotiation and conflict management and monitoring and evaluation, while d...
3 March 2020, New York, USA – During the first two days of the working visit to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhil Seth, completed several meetings with United Nations high-level officials and Ambassadors. The visit is taking place from the 2nd to the 6th of March 2020. After a coordination meeting at UNITAR Office in New York, with a brainstorming on the future of training and an introduction by the new office members, Mr. Seth met with the Under Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Ms. Rosemary Di...
UNITAR's Social Development Programme provides e-learning opportunities to increase the outreach of its training activities. The online courses, based on sound academic principles, are intended for decision-makers from different government levels and representatives of the private sector, NGOs and international organizations., In the 6 modules of this e-learning course, you will learn how to conduct risk analysis during strategic planning exercises, which expands humanitarian focus from acute and urgent needs to chronic vulnerabilities and exposure to future risks, stress, ...
From 4 July to 5 August 2011 UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully conducted the e-Learning course on “Fundamentals of Central Banking and Monetary Policy”. The course combined self-study, mentored online discussions, and self-assessments with the aim of providing participants high quality training, knowledge sharing and networking in a flexible and cost-effective way.
Under the expert mentorship of Prof. Alexandre Faure, Foord Professor of Investments at Rhodes University (South Africa), the class of ten (10) senior and middle level officials from…
UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) in collaboration with the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) is holding a five day, face-to-face training course on the Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations. The course, which runs from February 8-12, 2010, is fully funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
The course, being held within the premises of the BICC in Bonn, Germany, seeks to advance a better understanding of the theoretical and practical framework of the protection of civilians. At the end of the course, participants will be able to…
Training future negotiators and mediators
The 17th UNITAR-IPI Fellowship Programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy concludes in Norway
Conflict prevention, as one of the major obligations under the Charter of the United Nations, requires Member States and the UN Secretariat to develop and nurture the necessary talent and knowledge in their diplomats and staff to keep up with international best practices and to equip them with the latest conflict resolution skills.
During the two-week UNITAR-IPI Fellowship Programme in…
The Austrian Development Agency has contributed EUR 300,000 to UNITAR’s Climate Change Programme, in support of the activities of a project that contributes to improve the ability of developing countries to address climate change, through developing adaptation measures and planning mitigation strategies.
The project entitled “Capacity Development for Adaptation to climate Change and GHG Mitigation” (C3D+) is an 8 million Euro project, that brings together Regional Centers of excellence located in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean, to form a network that…
UNITAR, with support from the Government of Japan, is launching Peacemaking Training Programme for South Sudan
27 March, 2015, Hiroshima, Japan - On 9 July, 2011, South Sudan became the newest country in the world with a total population of nine million. Unfortunately, the country relapsed into armed conflict in 2014, just three years after achieving independence. It not only revealed the fragility of South Sudan’s institutions, but also the mounting political, security and socio-economic challenges the country faces - this includes the country’s poverty ratio of 50…