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Maritime governance encapsulates maritime sectors' strategic management and regulatory oversight, including port and vessel operations. It entails formulating and enforcing policies, allocating resources, and supervising maritime activities to ensure safety, security, efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Central to fostering global trade and regional economic development, effective maritime governance prioritizes the safeguarding of life, assets, and the marine ecosystem while promoting orderly and lawful maritime conduct. This holistic approach harmonizes stakehol...
14 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland. On 11 – 13 June 2025, UNITAR supported a workshop, “Harnessing Administrative Data Sources for Official Statistics Production: Migration and Environment/Climate Change statistics cases” in Grenada, implemented by Grenada’s Central Statistical Office (CSO). The workshop supports Grenada’s overarching objective of integrating administrative data into their national statistical framework, providing a space to formalize engagement between administrative data holders and the CSO for enhanced data quality. Read more, 8 July 2025, Geneva, Sw...
The Advisory Board for the NCD, Digital Health, and Capacity Building Division brings together a distinguished group of experts committed to UNITAR’s vision, mission, and strategic objectives.The Advisory Board provides critical insights and technical guidance to ensure that the Division’s programmes and activities align with UNITAR’s mandate, UN guidelines, and the strategic framework objectives of promoting health for all. By championing UNITAR’s objective to promote health for all, particularly for the most vulnerable people and countries, the Advisory Board plays a pivo...
A medical student in Cameroon, Marie-Claire Tohnain, joined the 2021 Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Programme.
Marie-Claire finds having a DRR mindset relevant to her study in medicine.
She is also affected by the crises in public health and armed conflict in the Northwestern region in Cameroon.
UNITAR Division for Prosperity runs the DRR training programme which is grounded on the Sendai Framework and its goals for an “all-of-society” inclusive approach.
, October 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – What happens when disasters strike ...
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...
マリ出身のJacques Dembeleさんは、国連開発計画（UNDP）ギニアビサウ事務所のモニタリング・評価担当官として働いています。2025年1月から2月にかけてオンラインと対面（広島と東京）で開催された「平和構築·開発におけるグローバル人材育成事業」プライマリー·コースに参加しました。彼にとって日本は、平和を発信してきた憧れの地であり、今回の研修への参加を決めました。広島での研修は、平和構築と開発に貢献する決意を新たにするきっかけとなりました。本事業は、広島大学が外務省の委託を受け、国連ユニタールと連携して実施しています。, 2025年6月19日、広島－Jacques Dembeleさんは国連開発計画（UNDP）ギニアビサウ事務所のモニタリング・評価担当官として、民主主義、健康、経済発展、気候変動に関する取り組みに携わっています。国際機関でのキャリアアップに必要なスキルを磨くため、「平和構築・開発におけるグローバル人材育成事業」プライマリー・コースに参加しました。, 「平和構築·開発におけるグローバル」人材育成事業プライマリー·コースは、国際機関でのキャリアを目指す若手専門家の実践的なスキル、知識、能力を強化することを目的としています。国内外から優秀な研修員23名を迎え、2025年1月から2月にかけて、オンライン研修に続き広島と東京で対...
Democracy has often been considered as one of the durable systems for building sustainable peaceful and inclusive societies, especially societies experiencing deep socio-political divisions. In most countries undergoing political transitions, these transitions may be triggered by various factors in a bid to change the prevailing political and constitutional order.
Lately, various political transitions have occurred following popular revolutions including the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt or military coups that happened in Haiti, Mali, and Myanmar. The end of ci...
UNITAR launches Digital Finance Initiative with virtual conference to promote Sustainable Prosperity
UNITAR Executive Director Nikhil Seth emphasizes the urgent need to strengthen efforts to support the “new digital normal” to reduce inequalities in financial inclusion.
, 10 May 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has launched a new set of projects that aim to support efforts to expand Financial Inclusion beginning with its first annual virtual conference on Digital Finance. The conference was held on April 21st, World Creativity and Innovation Day, and included three panel discussions, each centered on specific topics that address the role of developing FinTech innovation...
During the 25th Conferences of the Parties (COP25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Madrid, Spain on 2-13 December 2019, UN CC:Learn co-led the organization of the One UN Side Event on Climate Change Education titled “Learning for Climate Action”, which took place on Thursday, 12 December 2019. This event was designed to highlight the tangible contributions that learning, skills development and investment in climate-resilient education systems are making towards concrete and ambitious climate action as well as discuss opportunit...
23 August 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - Asia-Pacific stands at the forefront of the climate crisis. It’s the world’s most carbon-intensive region – accounting for over half of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, it is also one of the most vulnerable – home to many of the developing countries most at risk of climate change.These climate impacts are diverse – from melting glaciers in the Himalayas to flooding and extreme heatwaves in South Asia. And they are already impacting people’s lives – affecting agriculture, destroying homes, and threatening the liv...