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CIFAL Argentina Promoting a Dialogue on Mobility, Sustainable Transport and Road Safety
26 September 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina – CIFAL Argentina jointly with the Habitat III Secretariat and the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM) hosted the “Urban Morning: Mobility, Sustainable Transport and Road Safety” to facilitate a dialogue on innovative strategies that advance urban mobility and sustainable transport, as well as measures that improve road safety in cities.
Mr. Juan Matteo, Executive Secretary of the Argentina Federation of Municipalities (FAM)…
UNITAR hosts the XIII Annual Meeting of its CIFAL Global Network
21 October 2016. Quito, Ecuador - The CIFAL Global Network serves government authorities and key actors mainly from local and sub-national levels by providing training on how to tackle issues ranging from road safety to migration and development, leadership and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to name a few.
UNITAR’s global network of affiliated training centres is comprised of 16 “International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL)” Centres located across Africa, Asia-Pacific,…
UNITAR Organizes Climate Change Diplomacy Orientation Programme Ahead of COP21
November, Geneva, Switzerland - The Climate Change Diplomacy Orientation Programme for Diplomats in Geneva took place on the 3 – 4 November 2015. This two-day workshop was the third in a series of ten activities comprising UNITAR’s Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice, and was held ahead of the upcoming 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP21, scheduled in Paris for later in the month.
Drawing on the wealth of knowledge of main speaker Mr. Frederic Gagnon-Lebrun,…
ICCM4 nano side event – UNITAR/ Switzerland/ OECD
On 28 September 2015, UNITAR, in close cooperation with the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and OECD, organised a side event on nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials at the recent International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4), in Geneva, Switzerland.
This was a very good opportunity to share lessons from the recent, successful regional workshops on nanosafety that took place in Zambia, Colombia and Thailand, organised by UNITAR, OECD, and the Government of Switzerland. Representatives…
Sustainable Development Goals: A Creative Approach for a Sustainable City
20 November 2015, Glasgow, United Kingdom – On 26 October Glasgow Green Year, CIFAL Scotland, UNITAR and Creative Carbon Scotland hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) debate at Glasgow City Council Chambers. In a dynamic and highly interactive working session, participants from the public & private sectors and the creative community highlighted where Glasgow is making great strides in SDGs implementation, as well as areas where improvement would put the city in the vanguard.
The…
Graduation Ceremony For Executive Master Degree in Development Policies and Practices
25 February 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – Civil servants from the Ministry of Finance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan received degrees certifying their completion of the Executive Master Degree in Development Policies and Practices (DPP). The graduation ceremony commemorated the achievement of 55 students from around the world in completing the Executive Master Degree Programme. The students hailed from South America, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Francophone Africa and…
January 2014, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR is pleased to announce that a new Head of Hiroshima Office, Ms. Mihoko Kumamoto, took office from January 2014.
Ms. Mihoko Kumamoto has over 18 years of professional experience in the development cooperation field and has been with the United Nations for 12 years. Ms. Kumamoto started her career at Kyushu Electric Power Company in Japan where she coordinated training programmes and while there, she discovered that her passion was in helping people to help themselves, specifically through human development and development cooperation…
May 2014, Geneva, Switzerland – The third edition of the UNOSAT training on “Rapid Response Mapping in Disaster Situations” was delivered by expert trainers from 30 April to 02 May 2014 in Geneva. This special training is part of the CERG-C post-graduate specialisation of the University of Geneva in the field of geological and climate related risk.
UNOSAT and CERG have been collaborating for three consecutive years to offer post-grads students and professionals coming to Switzerland a valued opportunity to receive hands-on training on satellite imagery analysis for…
UNITAR Strengthens Diplomats’ Skills to Efficiently Chair Conferences
October 2014, Rome, Italy – In times of multilateral decision-making, the Chair of an international conference or high-level meeting plays an essential role in ensuring an effective exchange of arguments and a substantive negotiation outcome. In light of the Chair’s important role, UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme organised a two-day workshop on “Chairing International Meetings and Working with the Chair” at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome…
UNITAR Trains African Ministry Officials on Climate Change Diplomacy and Health
5 - 7 November 2014, Nairobi, Kenya – Climate change and its direct impacts are projected to pose some of the most pertinent and extreme risks to human livelihoods in coming decades. Risks of severe ill-health, mortality and morbidity due to climatic change increase in likelihood with greater magnitudes of warming, and many of these risks constitute challenges particularly for the least developed countries and vulnerable communities, given their limited abilities to cope.
UNITAR, in…