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Course on Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Development
02 June 2015, New York, USA – Course on Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Development, conducted by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), New York Office, with presenters from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UN-Habitat, United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law at Sea (DOALOS) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Also participating were Project Concern International (PCI), United Nations Foundation, and Public-…
12-13 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop on “Regional Integration: Key Negotiation Challenges Moving Forward”, which was directed by Dr. El Hadji A. Diouf (Executive Director, African Agency for Trade and Development) and Dr. Christian Häberli (Senior Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland) had 23 participants from 16 Sub-Saharan African countries. Senior trade experts from UNDP, South Centre and World Trade Organization also made presentations on specific issues and shared their insights with the participants in the thematic…
Network Amplifies Groundbreaking Satellite Sentinel Project, Calls on Young People to Show that the “World is Watching”
New York, USA, 7 January 2011 – MTV and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, are teaming up with George Clooney and the Satellite Sentinel Project– along with Not on Our Watch, the Enough Project, Google, the United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Trellon, LLC -- by calling on young people to help deter violence in Sudan, and send a loud message: “the world is…
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Dubai -- 6 March 2014 – Countries that have begun to embrace a green economy approach say that they realize a fundamental change in national planning and investment is required to reach their sustainable development and poverty eradication ambitions.
More than 450 participants from 66 countries – including 27 ministers - presented their national perspectives at the first global conference on the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), an initiative led by the United Nations to support countries making the transition to…
9 September 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - Executive Director of UNITAR, Sally Fegan-Wyles was invited to make Welcoming remarks at the opening of the Conference “15 Years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security – Review and Outlook” organized by the Government of Switzerland and held at the Maison de la Paix in Geneva this morning. Below is her welcoming remarks.
“15 Years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security”
Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 9.00 am, Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Speech by Sally Fegan-Wyles…
14 June 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development (ICfD), an e-learning course on Web 2.0 tools for development.
The overall goal of the course is to empower development professionals to recognize the potential of social media and to make innovative use of these tools to improve the efficiency, effectiveness…
16 January 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
UNITAR is pleased to announce the opening of the registrations for the next English session of the Innovative Collaboration for Development course (ICfD), an e-learning course on Social media and Web 2.0 tools for development. The course will take place between 3rd March and 2nd May 2014.
Developed jointly by UNITAR and FAO and based on the primary courseware developed by IMARK, this course is part of a collaboration framework aiming to cooperatively develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management.…