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New York, USA. The Government of Malaysia is the first to contribute to the newly established Fellowship Fund created by the main training vehicle of the UN, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). A symbolic and timely gesture, in support of South-South cooperation, this contribution will ensure access of diplomats from least developed and developing countries to Core Diplomatic Training courses (CDT).
Since 1965, UNITAR implements a comprehensive training curriculum for diplomats in New York, Geneva and elsewhere on topics…
Thousands of official and unofficial, formal and informal meetings take place at the United Nations and its related bodies and agencies. Representatives within the United Nations system as well as from governments and other bodies such as international and non-governmental organizations must be able to operate in a professional manner in such a multilateral environment. They need an in-depth understanding of the various layers of protocol and formal rules of this Organization as well as the multilateral system. In order to equip those professionals working with the…
Following the success of the Cancun climate change negotiations last December (COP16), UNITAR is committed to supporting the progress of multilateral negotiations under the UNFCCC. Throughout 2011, the Institute’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme will be working to strengthen the participation of Parties and key stakeholders in forthcoming consultations and decision-making processes, so as to harvest the momentum generated by the outcomes in Cancun and to enhance consensus-building between all Parties working towards a post-2012 climate change agreement.
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April 12th, 2011 marked a new milestone in the history of the cooperation between UNITAR and the Municipality of Plock Poland. On this date, Mr. Carlos Lopes, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNITAR Executive Director, and Mr. Andrzej Nowakowski, Mayor of Plock, signed a new partnership agreement which further strengthens ties between the two entities through the activities delivered by CIFAL Plock, the International Taining enter for Local actors located in Plock.
CIFAL Plock is coordinated locally under a partnership between the City of Plock and UNITAR. It started its…
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Institute of International Studies (IIS) of Fudan University, China have signed a cooperation agreement to receive post graduate students from Fudan University at UNITAR Headquarters in Geneva in the framework of the UNITAR internship programme. This programme will allow students to gain a greater insight regarding the works of the United Nations and to obtain meaningful experiences in a challenging learning environment at the international level. At the same time, UNITAR benefits from…
In April 2011, UNITAR and the Association of International Chemical Manufacturers (AICM) established a framework agreement to allow the two organizations to develop and implement projects and activities and pursue other forms of cooperation. Specific areas of focus will include, inter alia:
Assisting China and other developing countries and emerging economies with the introduction of compliance monitoring systems for chemicals and strengthening of existing programmes for the harmonization of national regulations on chemical safety based on the GHS (Globally…
20 May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. UNITAR Executive Director Carlos Lopes and the Director-General of CERN, Rolf Heuer signed a framework cooperation agreement enhancing the long standing collaboration already existing between the two institutions in view of new challenges among which that of providing better connections between the scientific and the international communities.
UNITAR and CERN have a long history of partnership and shared values, including their respective mandate in the area of research. CERN is the scientific partner that enabled the development of UNOSAT…
In a precedent-setting move, UNITAR and OECD, under the auspices of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (which UNITAR presently chairs), are holding Awareness-Raising Workshops on Nanotechnology/ Manufactured Nanomaterials for Developing and Transition Countries. These workshops are being organised in conjunction with UN regional meetings on the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) during 2009-2010 following a request for action regarding nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. The workshops will…
UNITAR’s commitment to reduce the carbon emissions per unit of training delivered by 50% by 2012 was cited as an example of climate-friendly action within the United Nations system in a report entitled;” Moving towards a climate neutral UN: the UN system’s footprint and efforts to reduce it.”
The report which also indicates 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide as the greenhouse gas footprint of the UN system was coordinated and compiled by the UN Environment Management Group (EMG) and launched during the UN Climate Change Convention meeting held in…
A month into the Haiti tragedy, the relentless work of the Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) in producing geospatial information to support relief and more recently to estimate damage in view of reconstruction is attracting praise from UN organisations and member states alike. UNOSAT has already completed one mission to Haiti, while the next one is due to commence on 20 February. The work on the ground is done in conjunction with Haiti’s national centre for geographic and spatial information (CNIGS).
UNOSAT produced the first maps in the immediate…