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On 4 February 2025, UNITAR welcomed 17 professionals from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon to Japan for the Phase 3 workshop of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation training programme.The workshop will run from 4 February to 11 February and will be held in Tokyo and Hiroshima.In this final phase, participants will focus on refining their business and project plans in the agriculture and food sectors, developed during the previous phases, into feasible and practical business enterprises.On the final day of the workshop, the participants are expected to pitch ideas to showcas...
The UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites 2011 Session was held recently in Hiroshima, Japan, and was attended by representatives of 19 countries. Uniquely well-placed in the eternally resonant city of Hiroshima, the Series seeks to utilize UNESCO’s Convention concerning the Protection of the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage more effectively by focusing on national policy making and planning, and on exchanging know-how on best practices and case studies.
The Series offers a set of innovative approaches to heritage conservation, includ...
24 May 2023, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has reached a significant milestone in its illustrious history, marking 60 years of empowering individuals and strengthening capacities for sustainable development. To commemorate this momentous occasion, UNITAR has released a series of beautiful commemorative stamps that reflect its rich legacy, global impact, and unwavering commitment to fostering knowledge and expertise worldwide. This stamp edition is the second UNITAR stamp after the first one issued in 1969 by the UN Post...
8 September 2016, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will partner with the Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG-Fund) to host an International Conference on “Attaining the SDGs by 2030: Business and the UN, New Partnership Models.” The Conference will be held at UN Headquarters in New York City on 8 September 2016. More than 60 participants are expected. Registration is not closed, however, and the Conference can accommodate up to 100 attendees.
As UN Member States turn their attention toward the implementation of the 2030 Ag...
20 September, 2018, Curitiba, Brazil – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) jointly with the Federation of Industries of the State of Parana (FIEP) System and Ecovia hosted the sixth edition of the Conference on Transit and Transformation, bringing together approximately 200 participants from the public and private sectors.
The main objective of this Conference was the promotion of road safety education. The Conference featured a panel of experts on road safety to promote a dialogue on responsible citizens, best practic...
Established in 2016, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in the Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) is hosted by the University of the Philippines (UP) serving as a hub for the Asia-Pacific region, leveraging UP's disciplinary strengths in areas such as public policy, migration and development. The CIFAL jointly with the UP and its Center for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS) aims to enhance data on Philippine migration and contribute to develop sound public policies. It will also serve as a hub for capacity building on how to implement the Un...
16 March 2022, Doha, Qatar - UNITAR and its long-standing partner, The Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Center (ROLACC), have officially inaugurated CIFAL Doha, one of 24 highly specialized international capacity-building centres, on Wednesday 16 March during a formal high-level ceremony in the city of Doha, Qatar. The newly established CIFAL centre will leverage the synergetic areas of expertise of UNITAR and ROLACC and will empower leaders and young professionals in the Gulf Region in the areas of anticorruption and transparency, sustainable economic development, social ...
31 October 2022, Cape Town, South Africa – In the framework of the 7th Regional Conference for Africa under the theme Connecting Africa through Smart, Safe and Resilient Roads: Stimulating Growth and Trade on the Continent, UNITAR and CIFAL Durban in collaboration with the South African Roads Federation (SARF), theInternational Road Federation (IRF), the World Road Association (PIARC), offered a training session on innovative practices to optimize road networks, and a training workshop on the Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit, gather...
22 January 2019, Quito, Ecuador- The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Quito (CIFAL Quito) jointly with the Consortium of Provincial Autonomous Governments of Ecuador (CONGOPE), the Local Governments Association of Ecuador, the National Electoral Council and the Democracy Institute hosted “The New Role of Local Authorities in Elections” in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca, Ecuador.
These conferences aimed at strengthening the capacities of Decentralised Local Governments towards the 2019 municipal elections in Ecuador. They gathered 500 participants,...
06 August 2019, Quezon City, Philippines – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization and UN Women launched the Global Migration Professional Course at the School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman.
The main objective of this course is to exchange knowledge through a comparative and pragmatic approach on the challenges in migration management. This one-month-course is comprised of 7 modules distrib...