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Twenty-Four Young Iraqi Fellows Complete Workshop on Needs Assessment and Effective Communication in Istanbul
14 December 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has successfully completed the second workshop of the UNITAR Iraq Fellowship Programme: Entrepreneurship and Youth Leadership Training, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 7 – 11 December 2017. The Fellowship is a six-month specialized capacity-building programme that examines entrepreneurship and youth leadership in the context of Iraq. It is comprised of four face-to-face workshops and is…
Fourth edition of the Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice - Apply!
Only a few places remain available to participate in UNITAR’s fourth edition of the Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice! The programme will take place from September 2018 until August 2019, and only three weeks are left to apply.
August 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - In light of the success obtained in previous years, the Executive Diploma will follow a similar model of 10 training workshops, but also include some innovative elements aimed to complement this core component. In fact,…
Mr. Bumerdene Dulam from Mongolia is a CEO of Mongolian National Consulting Firm (MMCG) and a founder of the NGO “Mongolian Green Business Council”. He provides the professional research, training and marketing service for Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and his consultancy field is Environmental Management System.
In 2015, he took an e-course “Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Asia” offered by UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). This is his first time to take an online course, and he had a great experience with it. He says that there are 3…
UNDP and FAO join to launch a new online course on climate change and agriculture in partnership with UNITAR
A six-week course begins on November 13, features leading global experts on climate change
13 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - ‘National Adaptation Plans: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture’ is the title of the new United Nations’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course is timed to launch in parallel with the upcoming climate talks in Bonn, Germany, more formally known as the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23). The registration…
In October 2016, UNITAR delivered a training to employees of the Government of Madagascar to support them in efficiently managing the country’s public finances. The training programme took place in Antananarivo over two-week period and included three main themes: negotiation techniques, follow-up and evaluation of public investment projects and internal debt management.
Rova Rakotondratsimba was one of the managers who took part in the training. “I work at the General Directorate of the Treasury, at the Directorate of …
UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme relaunches its successful e-learning course on Chairing International Conferences. The value of this course that is going to start on the 4th of April is not only to provide information, skills and guidance to delegates who may be appointed or elected to chair meetings, it is also important for all delegates to understand what the chairman is doing, and why he or she is doing it. Indeed, unless delegates want the conference to fail, they should support the chairman’s efforts. In short, successful conferences…
The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti resulted in an outpouring of relief and an unprecedented variety of crowdsourcing efforts. UNOSAT was heavily involved in damage assessment and analysis activities, ingesting data from the crowd but also synthesizing lessons learned from previous emergencies. The work was conducted in integrated and participatory involving the European Commission Joint Research Centre and the World Bank-GFDRR, the Haitian National Centre for Geo-Spatial Information, Swisstopo and the University of Zurich. This widespread effort combined im...
19 May - Bern, Switzerland - Invited as a guest lecturer on the occasion of the 9th meeting of the Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies, UNITAR Executive Director, Carlos Lopes, addressed the issue of environmental disaster response and, more specifically, opportunities that new technologies create in the area of disaster risk reduction as well as related capacity building efforts. Mr Lopes brought UNITAR’s perspective to the discussion by highlighting the importance of capacity development, effective partnerships and the key role of high-quality training…
20 June to 15 July 2011 - web-based - Climate Change has been at the top of the international agenda for some time now and the magnitude of the issue needs to be understood, specifically regarding the correlation between trade and environment. This sparks the debate about their relationship in terms of agreements and measures to mitigate climate change effects. In light of this ongoing debate, UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme and the World Trade Institute (University of Bern, Switzerland) are relaunching their successful e-Learning course on Trade and…
1-3 June, 2011, Asaba, Delta State Nigeria. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Nigeria Office in collaboration with Delta State of Nigeria Government has recently organized a three-day training program on Participatory Budgeting and Revenue Generation in Asaba, Delta State. The workshop arose out of the need to include citizenry and stakeholder participation in effectively deciding what projects are priorities to their communities on one hand and the need to generate adequate funds to execute projects to promote sustainable development in the…