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Financing urban water infrastructure is not easy: typically investments involve a high capital outlay and long pay-back periods, as well as greater risks and lower rates of return than other forms of infrastructure.
From July 22-23 2010, CIFAL Atlanta in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management hosted the Fifth “International Water Forum: Financing Water Systems and Governance”, bringing together representatives from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Uruguay, Colombia and major cities from United States.
The International Water Forum…
15 November,2013,Hiroshima, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office was proud to host Professor U. Joy Ogwu, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations, on Thursday 14 November. Professor Ogwu met with the 2013 UNITAR Youth Ambassadors, Ms. Sae Murai, Hiroshima Jogakuin High School, and Mr. Yuuki Yanagawa, Hiroshima Gakuin High School, and discussed the role of today’s youth, gender, diplomacy, and peace.
The UNITAR Youth Ambassador Programme provides an opportunity to learn about the United Nations system as well as careers in…
4 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has just published its Training Catalogue on Public Finance, Trade and Intellectual Property featuring the thematic focus areas, partnerships and different training activities such as high-level conferences and fora, face-to-face seminars and workshops, communities of practice, and e-Learning courses.
The catalogue is being distributed to beneficiary institutions to ensure that they are aware of the training opportunities available from UNITAR in the field of finance, trade and intellectual property. In addition, it is also being…
28 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - The Local Development Programme of UNITAR, in partnership with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), is launching an e-Learning course in Spanish on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries. The course will be running from 3 April to 10 July 2013.
The course addresses below questions as well as provides solutions and alternative approaches that target a more sustainable transport system in developing cities.
Do we dare to create a transport model different from that of the so-called advanced world…
More than 120 delegates representing European institutional stakeholders and industry across the civilian, security and defence domain attended the workshop on ‘Space for Security and Defence’, jointly organised by the European Defence Agency, the European Commission and the European Space Agency in Brussels on 16 September. The Manager of UNOSAT was invited to speak on the UN experience in applying satellite solutions in the context of UN decision making and field support.
Given that effective civil security and defence capabilities are linked to the ability of decision…
UNITAR Participates in the Fifteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration
16 February 2017, New York, USA - Mr. Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) chaired today a Panel of Experts organized by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations during the Fifteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration.
Mr. Seth stressed the need for ongoing negotiation for a Migration Compact to be open and transparent…
UNITAR and UNDESA to Work Together to Assist Member States on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Implementation
7 March 2016, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) represented by its Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth, and the United Nations Secretariat represented by the Under-Secretary- General for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Mr. Wu Hongbo, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in New York.
UNITAR and UNDESA have agreed to focus their collaboration initially on the…
Training Course on the United Nations General Assembly for the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10 - 13 September 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research delivered a four-day training course on the United Nations and its General Assembly for a group of diplomats working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain who will attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
The training was delivered jointly by His Excellency Amr Aljowaily, Egypt’s Ambassador to Serbia, with extensive experience in the…
7 September 2022, Płock, Poland – The “Autosobriety Training Programme to Prevent Drink-Driving” kicks off today with the aim to equip and train driving schools, educational centres and secondary schools with educational tools in order to contribute to the prevention and reduction of alcohol-related traffic fatalities and injuries in Poland.
The programme comprises educational tools including an online training course, a 360-degree video to experience the effects of alcohol in driving performance through Virtual Reality, and a microlearning course available through EdApp....
28 May 2024, Geneva, Switzerland - In the vast expanse of the Pacific, where the azure waters meet lush islands, the threat of climate change is not distant, but a reality deeply anchored in the present. Rising sea levels, frequent flooding, and coastal erosion pose relentless threats to their rich ecosystems and communities. Despite contributing minimally to global carbon emissions, these island nations face staggering costs to bolster their infrastructure against climate-induced hazards. Estimates suggest that Pacific island countries need to inve...