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October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The United Nations Development Programme – Regional Bureau for Africa (UNDP RBA) and UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully conducted the skills-building workshop on “Négociations financières multilatérales: les défis pour l’Afrique” (Geneva, 20 to 21 October 2011). Fifteen (15) negotiators and officials from French-speaking Sub-Saharan African countries participated in this two-day event. The main workshop goal was to enable participants to effectively prepare and participate in multilateral financial negotiations such…
DFID and UNITAR Launch Innovative Platform to Deliver Transformational Change in Humanitarian Work in Pakistan
16 February 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan - Future support to Pakistani people needing humanitarian support will be improved, thanks to a new platform launched by the UK Government and UNITAR in Islamabad.
The Pakistan Evidence and Learning Platform (PELP) aims to improve the humanitarian response in Pakistan through knowledge management, capacity building, and third-party monitoring. It was launched by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research…
UN CC:e-Learn Platform Reaches 25,000 Certificates
We appreciate all of our users around the world for their interest in our courses and their continuous support for our goal of promoting global climate literacy.
14 August 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - Since the platform’s launch, back in 2014, we have strived to leave no one behind as we train people on the key aspects to understand and address climate change. For this reason, all of the courses currently offered are free of charge and in an increasing number of languages, including English, French, Spanish, Mandarin…
Francesco Pisano says: “We are continuing to equip the Programme with what it takes to do this job effectively and professionally. But this is done also to bring a distinct advantage to the entire UN family. After the partnership with Google to share crowd generated data with UNOSAT and the rest of the UN, this is a second main achievement by UNOSAT which will change the way we do things and the overall technology level of the UN. I hope this can be of help to the entire UN”. UNOSAT in fact has added to the purchase order the funds necessary to endow 3 other UN bodies with ...
1 to 6 August 2011, Addis Ababa. More than seventy Ambassadors and senior Government Officials of Ethiopia convened in Addis Ababa during the first week of August at a workshop co-organised by UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ethiopia, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, to share information and benefit from tailor-made briefings on the latest developments in business, trade and economic diplomacy. The topics discussed ranged from economic and commercial diplomacy to international perspectives on…
Vice-President of the UNITAR Board, Prof. Radha Kumar, inaugurated the UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme’s (PTP) second face-to-face training course being held in New Delhi, India from February 1-5, 2010.
The introductory course on Understanding Conflict and Conflict Analysis aims to analyze the interaction between the context, the actors, and the causes of conflict. It seeks to identify opportunities to solve a conflict, and indicate roles and responsibilities of different actors that could lead the process of conflict transformation.
The course is being…
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…
21 December 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - As Humanitarian Coordinator in Jordan, Andrew Harper travels frequently to camps sheltering Syrian refugees. The situation in many of these camps is often harrowing, but nothing like the past few days, when cold weather and snow blizzards hit parts of Jordan and the West Bank, brought by storm "Alexa", which moved through the Middle East region from about 12 to 14 December. In one of his comments posted on Twitter, Mr Harper writes“it was said that this is the worst storm in 60 years. I believe it”.
UNOSAT used satellite imagery to…
17 January 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - UNOSAT released fresh analysis illustrating how people are fleeing violence in urban areas in South Sudan to seek refuge at UN bases nearby. In one of the analyses, UNOSAT experts have documented the growth of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Rubkona base of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The analysis shows the progressive increase of informal shelters erected by IDPs to settle in the UN base, most probably to seek safety. Imagery analysis reveals that a portion of the UNMISS compound is in use by IDPs, occupying…