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Lucretia Dreyer, a South African disability inclusion advocate, completed the 2023 UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme.The programme showed Lucretia the significant potential of assistive technologies in helping children with disabilities learn coding and robotics.Lucretia hopes to establish an inclusive coding and robotics programme where children with and without disabilities can learn together.The Japan-funded UNITAR programme ran from November 2023 to March 2024 and aimed to prepare 7,000 women and youth fro...
22 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Division for People launched the “Webinar Series Management Practices for Safer Roads” to raise awareness about practical interventions and best practices that contribute to improve road safety. Mr. Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR, kicked off the series and highlighted the importance of remaining focused on issues like road safety during these unprecedented times. “Let’s continue to take bold steps to reduce road traffic crashes and let’s further collaborate so that when the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, we stand read...
Born in Togo, 39 years old Bontiébite Badjare was trained as an agricultural engineer at Lomé's university in 2004, following the example of his older brother. He first obtained a position as an assistant at the International Center for Soil Fertility. A few years later, he worked for the Togolese Agricultural Research Institute, before he resigned to become an independent consultant, working among others for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This is where he first looked into the impact of chemicals on the environment, a field on which his…
This Online Event Series is organized by UNITAR's Division for People and Social Inclusion and its CIFAL Global Network of training centres around the world.
Participation is open to diplomats, staff of international organizations, development practitioners, faculty members and administrators of educational institutions and anyone who is interested in the discussed topics.
Registration is mandatory and free of charge. https://unitar.org/unitars-upcoming-web-based-activities#people , Coming soon
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16 October 2018, Taguig City, Philippines – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) jointly with the University of the Philippines (UP) Korea Research Center and UP Asian Center convened the Conference “South Korean Migration to Philippines” at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Philippines.
Migration’s integral role for sustainable development was recognized for the first time in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which unveils the contributions of migrants to foster development among countries of origin and des...
16 September 2022, Geneva, Switzerland – The Universidad Europea de Valencia and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) present the Master in International Leadership and Negotiation. The increase in volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) in today's world means there is no longer an approach to management that can be applied to all organizations and work environments. Leaders must adjust their leadership strategies to be more flexible and adapt to a variety of challenges and situations, and this master's aims t...
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is one of the most recent arrivals in Bonn and, by establishing its presence through an office, joins 24 other UN entities collectively “shaping a sustainable future” in a unique space of creativity and cooperation.
The UNITAR Bonn office will provide a full range of services spanning its work across all pillars of Agenda 2030, together with flagship programmes on multi-lateral diplomacy, climate change learning, e-waste, non-communicable disease, peace and satellite analysis & research. UNITAR provides in...
On 3 February 2025, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) kicked off the 10th Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation training programme in the City of Hiroshima.15 diplomats from 14 Asia-Pacific countries are participating in this year’s 6-day programme to deepen understanding and enhance negotiation skills for nuclear disarmament.Along with lectures conducted by experts, there will be a youth session on 6 February at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, inviting local youth to interact with the participants.On their final day of the session, the partic...
The year 2025 marks 80 years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings – the first and only use of nuclear weapons in the world – and the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force, cementing a categorial ban on nuclear weapons.Based in the symbolic city of Hiroshima, UNITAR Division for Prosperity has an inherent interest in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Since 2015, we have been training government officials from Asian countries who are on...
15 November 2024, Panama City, Panama – UNITAR in collaboration with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), FIA Foundation and its International Training Centre for Authorities CIFAL Madrid, launched the Safe Mobility 4 All and 4 Life Programme to strengthen FIA Members Clubs through cutting-edge knowledge and evidence-based interventions that promote safe mobility. This unique programme aims to equip participants with the skills to design projects and actions that promote road safety at the local and country levels. It also seeks to facilitate...