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The Board of Trustees is the Institute’s governing body. The Board formulates principles and policies to govern the Institute’s activities and operations, approves the work programme, adopts the budget, reviews the structure and composition of staffing and performs other statutory functions, including considering the methods of financing the Institute with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of its future operations and the Institute’s autonomous character within the framework of the United Nations., The Board meets in regular session at least once a year. Sessions are tra...
Mele Moimoi is a disaster risk reduction trainer at Tonga National Council of Churches (TNCC).
Her preparedness habits and knowledge about disaster risk reduction helped her in the 2022 Tonga disaster.
Mele learned about gender leadership in disasters at the 2021 UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Training Programme.
Tongan women take care of the family while men work far from home. Women need to know how to respond to disasters and lead in crises.
, April 2022 - The volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami that hit Tong...
Brochure of the 2023 SeriesFinal Report 2023 Series , General Objective: To learn from good practices on the existing normative, national policies, and other initiatives on access to justice for older persons, including guaranteeing truth, reparation, memory, and non-recurrence.Concept Note: BelowVideo recording. Here Takeaways document: Below , General Objective: To learn about challenges and opportunities in accessing labor markets, with a special emphasis on older persons while identifying the possibility of strengthening partnerships to move forward ...
UNITAR's Breastfeeding Education Initiative (BFEI) combines its experience in training and research to create adapted breastfeeding education wherever it's needed most. Explore our reports to better understand the Initiative's scope and how, through different activities and components (capacity building, public awareness and partnerships) we foster breastfeeding education around the globe., These events, of a Conference and a Training of Trainers (ToT), contributed to Breastfeeding Education Initiative (BFEI) targets as listed below. This conference consisted of a one-...
November 2023, Port Vila, Vanuatu – The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) joined hands with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to extend the delivery of technical training in geospatial information technology at the subnational level in Vanuatu. These trainings had been designed for the PWD engineers, specifically focusing on the use of GIT and road network digitization in Vanuatu. The first training for Shefa was conducted in May 2023, followed by the training in Torba and Sanma in August. Trainings in Tafea and Penama provinces we...
When Lu’isa Uai Taunga, an officer with the National Emergency Management Office in the Kingdom of Tonga, participated in the UNITAR Disaster Risk Reduction Training which wrapped up in November 2017, she left with renewed energy and ideas for new initiatives to prepare her community in the island group of Ha’apai in the event of a disaster. “This year I changed my approach, and this is something I learned from UNITAR during my school visit where the bottom to top approach was used.” she shared with UNITAR disaster risk reduction training associate, Junko Shimazu.
She wor...
Title: Chief Operations Officer of the National Emergency Operations Center
Country: Solomon Islands
Partnership: CommonSensing Project
Tropical Cyclones are regular and disastrous occurrences for the Solomon Islands. Each year the cyclone season brings powerful wind speeds and high storm surges, threatening SIDS. George Baragamu, Chief Operations Officer of the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC), situated in the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), in the Solomon Islands, knows the risks of such weather events too well.
George works to protect the country...
29 December 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - On the 2nd of December 2021, UNITAR hosted the third meeting of UN SDG:Learn Steering Group entirely online. The meeting was co-organized with the UN System Staff College (UNSSC).
The main objectives of this meeting included an overview of the various accomplishments of UN SDG:Learn in 2021 and discussions regarding the future of the initiative. The various efforts, hopes and intentions of the Learning Pathways working group, the working group on Partnership, Co-creation and Programming, and of the working group on Communi...
Nikki Antonette De Vera, an advocate for disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the Philippines, emerges as a beacon of change in the field. Nikki’s exposure to emergency response efforts early in life inspired her commitment to sustainable livelihoods and equitable DRR.
As an alum of the UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme, her journey underscores the symbiotic relationship between culture and learning in building resilient communities.
The UNITAR training programme provides a women's lea...
La Universidad está comprometida con los ODS, desarrollando diferentes actividades de gestión ambiental en la interna de La Universidad, algunas de ellas como: ∙ Políticas la conforman “Cero Plástico” que prohibió el uso de plástico no reciclable, busca crear consciencia entre sus estudiantes, docentes y personal administrativo para forjarlos como agentes de cambio para un desarrollo sostenible y de protección del medio ambiente. ∙ Otra es la de “Cero Papel Académico”, cuya estrategia comprende la habilitación de aulas virtuales y la prohibición, a los docentes, de utilizar...