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UNITAR and BADEA Collaboration Strengthens Project Monitoring Skills of Francophone African officials
30 November 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) successfully completed its joint 2-week face-to-face training on "Strengthening the Capacities of African Officials from BADEA Beneficiary Countries on Project Monitoring Frameworks and Tools" from October 28 to November 8, 2018.
The training was conducted at the BADEA Headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan and was participated by Francophone African officials who are…
10 March 2025, San Salvador, El Salvador –In partnership with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, UNITAR kicks off its Airports and Economic Development Training Programme multi-regional workshop series in San Salvador, El Salvador on 4-5 March 2025.With a strategic focus on Artificial Intelligence, technology, and cybersecurity, the inaugural training workshop titled “Future-Proofing Airport Development: Leveraging Technological Innovations, AI, and Cybersecurity” brough...
From the 22nd to the 27th November 2010, UNITAR PTP, jointly with the South African Development Community (SADC), organised a Protection of Civilians Training of Trainers course at the South African Development Community Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe.
In his preface to Jean Marie Guehenno’s recent paper on Enhancing the Capacity of African Peacekeeping Training Institutions, Lakhdar Brahimi, highlights the pressing need for UN peacekeepers to be fully well-trained. Since then, the UN has been undertaken many more challenging missions, especially…
From 18 to 22 July 2011, New York, USA. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)New York Office, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are organising a Seminar on International Trade Law and Policy at the United Nations Headquarters. The seminar aims at enhancing the knowledge on trade-related issues of delegates of permanent missions to the United Nations in New York.
The programme will cover the functioning of the international trade system, including an overview of the role,…
From 25 to 26 August 2011, the UNITAR New York Office is organizing a workshop on “Women in Diplomacy” at the United Nations Headquarters. The workshop aims at enhancing the negotiation skills of women delegates and to enhance their skills to assume leadership roles in multilateral diplomacy.
The workshop is part of the UNITAR / Olof Palme Memorial Fund 2011 Negotiation Series “Towards a level playing field”. It is designed as an advanced-level skills-building course for women diplomats, particularly those from developing and least developed countries. It will…
Through a partnership agreement signed with UNITAR, Sulá Batsú Cooperative will be cooperating with the Institute on the delivery of the course Innovative Collaboration for Development , the first e-Learning course implemented by UNITAR and FAO in the framework of their agreement to jointly deliver a series of online courses on knowledge management and web 2.0 technologies.
Sulá Batsú is a cooperative of professionals based in San José, Costa Rica, which seeks to contribute to social transformation through creative work with knowledge sharing and collective creation…
February 2012, Tirana, Albania – A Mid-term Review Workshop and a National Chemicals Management Database Planning Meeting was held in Albania on 9-10 February 2012, under the framework of a national project for the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM).
The workshop was attended by some 30 representatives of government, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, academia, and industry, as well as UNITAR. As part of the mid-term review of the project, the draft updated National Chemicals Management Profile,…
6 April 2009
Nairobi, Kenya
The initiative “Access to basic services for all”, jointly initiated by UNITAR and UN-HABITAT in 2004, aims at providing the development partners (including National Governments, local authorities, United Nations agencies and the international financial institutions, public and private sector, NGOs, etc.) a formal and mutually agreed basis which would govern the relations between the different stakeholders with a view to improving the provision of basic services.
Resolution 22/8 completes the Resolutions of 2005 (20/5) and 2007 (21/4) and…
Consistent with UNITAR’s strategic vision of leveraging new information and communication technologies for training and outreach, UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme focuses on training, skills building and cross-fertilization of information among officials in themes relating to public finance, financial governance, trade and intellectual property using internet-based e-Learning. This training programme brings together a global community of officials from the public and private sector as well as from civil society and academia primarily through e-Learning and…
Mercury Inventory Training in Jordan, May 2016
The Minamata Convention on Mercury, ratified by 25 countries (as of 10 May 2016), is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. It clearly underscores the need for actions to reduce further anthropogenic mercury releases; these actions should be guided by reliable information on sources of mercury emissions and releases. Therefore, developing robust, national inventories of emissions and releases is critical in identifying and addressing the issue.
As such, the…