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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...
August Edition: Field Visit; 4 August - 8 August 2025, During the upcoming year, UNITAR is delighted to deliver the first edition of our 5-day field visit to New York– the main headquarters of the United Nations. We will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into the host city of these key UN agencies and thereby gain first-hand experience of the United Nations. UNITAR will host most of the activities on the premises of the UN Offices in New York. They will consist of a nuanced balance between the follo...
A solid and proactive engagement with partners is instrumental to achieving effective, efficient and sustainable results. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 60/215, UNITAR views partnerships as “voluntary and collaborative relationships between various parties, both public and non-public, in which all participants agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and, as mutually agreed, to share risks and responsibilities, resources and benefits.”
Partnerships may be donation-based, may support project implementation or may be c...
The year 2023 was a very special and exciting one for the UNITAR Division for Prosperity, as we celebrated not only the 60th anniversary of UNITAR but also the 20th of the Hiroshima Office, which is a part of the Division for Prosperity. We held many events in Japan and Geneva, together with our Advisory Board members, partners, alumni and supporters of UNITAR.
As we close the year with many fond memories, we remain committed to serving the world so that 20 years from now, we can all live in a more sustainable, peaceful and prosperous world.
“People are the core of natio...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Former President of the Soviet Union and Founding President of Green Cross International
Resetting the Nuclear Disarmament Agenda
To read Mr. Gorbachev's speech, please click here
Introductory statement by
BAN KI-MOON
United Nations Secretary-General
Remarks by the Secretary General
Monday, 5 October 2009 | 4:30 p.m.
Palais des Nations; Assembly Hall
To watch the video archive of the Conference, click here
To watch the photo gallery of the Conference, click here
The 3d Edition of the ...
UNOSAT offers basic and advanced courses on the use and applications of Geospatial Information Technology for disaster risk management. The courses are delivered face-to-face either in situ or at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. They can be customised to different needs.
Training methodology
We focus on a highly interactive learning-by-doing approach using case studies derived from recent disasters and conflicts. The trainings are comprised of theoretical lectures, round table discussions as well as field vis...
The skills and tools of diplomacy are resources of tremendous importance within, but also outside traditional diplomatic fora. In order to fulfil its true mission, it is important that the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) strives to include stakeholders from across all sectors, ages, genders and geographical and cultural backgrounds. This effort aims to contribute to the creation of a fairer and more equitable society, committed towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
To attain this goal, UNITAR has given great importance to...
Learning from past experiences to inform future programmes and organizational decisions is a vital step of an evaluation process. Lessons learned from evaluations are abstract generalizations that provide an evidence-based source of information on what has (and what has not) worked well from programming implemented in a given setting and under certain conditions with results from such exercises contributing to the creation and uptake of knowledge.
Aligned with UNITAR’s strategic framework learning approach to evaluation, this lessons learned paper series aims to contribut...
Multilateral Diplomacy training lies at the heart of UNITAR. The Institute traditionally delivers training workshops on the UN system and skills development. Given the recent global context, UNITAR specifically designed a series of training programmes on multilateralism. These aim at strengthening the spirit of international cooperation and togetherness, build up values such as solidarity and inclusiveness in participants and sensitize them to the importance of addressing global challenges, such as climate change, in a spirit of cooperation. Please find below our excl...