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The UN CC:Learn e-learning platform has just featured a brand new 30-minute tutorial on climate information and services!
31 March 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn is pleased to announce the launch of a new introductory e-tutorial on "Climate Information and Services" for decision-makers and professionals from Africa and beyond, which has been developed in collaboration with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The tutorial is available on UN CC:e-Learn platform.
It is structured around answering three questions:
What are...
18 November 2022, Lima, Peru – UNITAR and the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN) signed an Interinstitutional Agreement to collaborate in the development, implementation and maintenance of a regional dashboard that will include relevant road safety statistics for CAN Member States.
In the Andean Community, more than 325,000 traffic collisions were recorded in the CAN countries during 2019, resulting in 135,834 people injured and 13,424 fatalities. The SGCAN is charged with preparing the annual statistical reports on road safety, by harmonizing and compilin...
UNITAR is supporting the African Union activities related to strengthening the capacity of its Member States to provide effective support to implement emerging as well as classic DDR through the operationalization and dissemination of the AU Operational Guidance Notes (OGNs). UNITAR, also a member of the Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR (IAWG-DDR) and the Integrated DDR Training Group (IDDRTG), is well-positioned as a link to the main actors working on DDR, therefore connecting the work of the AU and the UN.
The initiative launched in 2019 will contribute to enhan...
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Poland emerged as a primary destination for Ukrainian women evacuees. Women evacuees face the harsh realities of family separations, broken-up communities, prolonged uncertainty, and barriers to social integration. While the employment rate of the evacuees who settled in Poland is estimated to be relatively high, the job opportunities often do not align with the women’s professional skills and experience, and a humanitarian digital gap has emerged. The UNITAR digital reskilling programme was set up to urgently respond to thi...
Jacques Dembele, from Mali, is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at UNDP Guinea-Bissau.He participated in the Primary Course of the Program for Global Human Resource Development for Peacebuilding and Development, held in January and February 2025 both online and in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan.Jacques was motivated to join the course by his desire to learn about peacebuilding and development from Japan, a country he admires as a global advocate for peace.His time in Hiroshima and the course experience fuelled his commitment to continue contributing to peacebuilding and deve...
29 May 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Global Water Academy (UGWA) proudly hosted the side event entitled, ‘Blueprints for Prosperity: Building Resilience for SIDS Through the Blue Economy’ at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in collaboration with York University as UGWA Academic leads, and UGWA partners IRC Wash.
The theme of the side event was ‘Navigating the Blue Future’, to foster SIDS discussions on sustainable growth through blue economy innovation with partner organizations. The importance of establishing SIDS blueprint...
The Supporting the Yearly Training Programme of the École de Maintien de la Paix project aimed to strengthen the impact of peace operations (UN and non-UN) by directly addressing the challenges related to paring deployed personnel. More specifically, the project sought to reinforce the École de Maintien de la Paix (EMPABB) to host training of African personnel deploying to peace operations. The project planned to achieve its goals by enhancing accessibility to the regional training centre, empower local trainers to deliver impactful training and equip personnel from the reg...
14 to 16 January 2020, Background
Governance and institutional issues have received significant attention during the intersessional process on the “Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management and the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020”, including at the third meeting of the intersessional process (IP3) in Bangkok, Thailand, 1 – 4 October 2019.
As a contribution to support relevant discussions in the intersessional process, UNITAR organised an informal workshop on governance topics considered of importance for the process. The workshop was su...
Energy access is a critical and under-served need among the 134 million people in need of humanitarian assistance today. To help address this and related issues, in July 2019, the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) Humanitarian Working Group and Global Plan of Action (GPA) Coordination Unit, which UNITAR forms part of, will host two consecutive events – the annual SAFE Workshop & the first ever Humanitarian Energy Conference – to convene a broad community of stakeholders engaged in providing energy solutions to crisis-affected people. Both events will take place over...
The eradication of global hunger by 2030 is a key goal in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and trade is recognized as one of the means for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge is how to ensure that the expansion of agricultural trade works for, and not against, the elimination of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. This challenge has been at the forefront of governments’ struggle to negotiate the changes to global agreements on agricultural trade. National and regional institutions need greater technical capacity and resou...