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Angeline Mueni Mutuku, the entrepreneur from Kenya, participated in the second round of the UNITAR Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
After losing her job at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Angeline started her business selling pure honey and pishori rice.
Angeline considers the UNITAR programme as part of her personal development by building her skills and confidence to excel in her business and serve as an example for women.
UNITAR Division for Prosperity partnered with Absa Bank and Sun...
Enhanced DRR Partnership Between UNITAR and the Mexican Government
4 December 2014, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Executive Director, Ms. Sally Fegan-Wyles, its Director of Research, Mr. Francesco Pisano, and the Senior Manager of its Decentralized Cooperation Programme (DCP), Mr. Alex Mejia, welcomed a delegation from Mexico led by the Hon. Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, Cabinet Secretary for Territorial and Urban Development. The delegation visited the Palais des Nations on 27 November 2014 and was comprised of representatives from the Ministry of Territorial and Urban…
Economics of the Public Sector
Date: May 6 to Jun 7, 2019 (5 weeks) | Delivery: Online, Instructor Moderated | Fee: USD800.- | Language: English
More information and online registration: https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/economics-public-sector-2019
Fundamentals of Money Creation
Date: May 6 to Jun 7, 2019 (5 weeks) | Delivery: Online, Instructor Moderated | Fee: USD800.- | Language: English
More information and online registration: https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/fundamentals-money-creation-2019
Cross Cultural Negotiation
Date: May 13 to Ju...
31 March 2023, Merida, Mexico - The Executive Director of CIFAL Merida in Mexico, Héctor Navarrete Muñoz, and the Director of the ITAérea Business School, Mr José Ignacio Escudero, sealed the extension for another 4 years of the partnership that has united these institutions since 2017.
In November 2017, the ITAérea Aeronautical Business School, CIFAL Merida (International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders) and UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) met for the first time at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, for the signing of the trilateral ...
Knowledge is the fuel that can power the transformation put forward in Agenda 2030. In a world where data and information is easily available, knowledge also became free and wide spread. The wide range of stakeholders who need to engage and to contribute to transforming our world need to easily access usable knowledge to overcome the global challenges. As much as knowledge scarcity hinders evolution and development, knowledge abundance also has its downside. The human brain has limited capacity to process new information and cognitive overload can compromise the acquisition...
The UNITAR New York Office is pleased to announce the briefing on the fourth meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), Mexico 2010, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Mexico, and part of the Migration and Development Seminar Series jointly organized with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the MacArthur Foundation. The half-day briefing will be held on 14 October 2010, from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
In preparation of the GFMD IV, this briefing will inform diplomats and other…
26-28 March 2019, Merida, Mexico – UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Merida (CIFAL Merida) in collaboration with the Secretary of Public Safety of the State of Yucatan and the Municipality of Merida, with the support of Diageo hosted a three-day in-depth training workshop for law enforcement officers from the Dominican Republic to strengthen their capacities to implement breathalyzer campaigns in the Dominican Republic.
UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Initiative aims to- through training and public awareness, contribute to reduce...
Monday 28 February 2011, 15:00 – 16:30, Room XVI of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century. These challenges pose both risks and opportunities for global societies. In order to mitigate these risks and maximise the respective opportunities, the UN climate change negotiations have become a crucial fora for international Parties to devise creative and viable solutions which are effective on a global scale. Essentially all governments must ensure that their greenhouse gas emissions…
Strengthening of Hurricane Preparedness and Response in the Yucatán Peninsula
3-4 April 2017, Mérida, Mexico – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Mérida successfully concluded the XII International Seminar on Hurricane Preparedness held on 3 - 4 April 2017.
The seminar brought together 150 airport executives and civil aviation authorities from Mexico and Latin America to learn about disaster preparedness and response, as well as on how to reactivate airports after tropical cyclones.
Dr. Lixion Ávila, expert from the National…
In a world where more data are generated in one year than over decades before, its value to informing important policies and decisions aimed at the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is ever more important. The surge in data presents both significant opportunities for generating much needed evidence, as well as new challenges as the spread of fake news increasingly threatens the very foundations of our societies. Against this backdrop, UNITAR’s Strategic Implementation of the 2030 Agenda Unit (SI Agenda 2030) has teamed up with UN Statistics Division...