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Negotiations are more important than we may perceive, as we daily engage in these sometimes without even noticing. A successful negotiation means getting what you want without offending the other party. Negotiating needs continuous practice, analysis and review to sharpen the skills needed for a productive negotiation. The e-learning course “International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques” is one of three courses on financial negotiation that UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme offers.
This online course took place from 5 to 30 July 2010, and…
5-7 Febuary 2013, Osaka, Japan - The International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC UNEP), in collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), is working on an initiative to produce and implement "Guidelines for the development, review and updating of national waste management strategies." It responds to UNEP Governing Council decisions 25/8 and 26/3 calling on UNEP to support national implementation of integrated waste management and to the Rio+20 call for development of comprehensive national waste management strategies (paragraph…
Afghanistan Public Officials Master Public Policy as they Graduate from Swiss University
26 February 2015, Geneva, Switzerland – Governments officials from the Ministry of Finance of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Economics and the Office of the President attended the graduation ceremony in Geneva where degrees were conferred to certify their completion of the Development Policies and Practices (DPP) Master’s Degree Programme.
The occasion marked the final step in a rigorous, year-long Executive Master’s undertaken by twenty Afghan officials, as well as other forty…
CIFAL Philippines Officially Launched in Quezon City to Offer Training on Migration, Gender Equality in the Asia-Pacific region
29 September 2016, Quezon City, Philippines – With the objective of expanding its training activities on migration and development at local level, UNITAR in partnership with the University of the Philippines launched the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) Philippines, which will be based in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
CIFAL Philippines will be hosted by the University of the Philippines (UP) under the auspices of…
France Supports the Organization of Youth Climate Dialogues
10 October 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France recently announced that it will financially contribute to the UN CC:Learn programme, in order to support the organization of Youth Climate Dialogues between French schools and schools from UN CC:Learn partner countries.
http://www.uncclearn.org/youth-climate-dialogues
UN CC:Learn is currently organizing three Youth Climate Dialogues with French schools in 2016-2017, the first of which will take place…
Malawi Launches Secondary School Sourcebook on Climate Change
20 October 2015, Lilongwe, Malawi - Last week, during the first ever Climate Week in Malawi, the Minister for Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, H.E. Mr. Bright Msaka launched a new Climate Change Sourcebook for Secondary School Teachers in the presence of the UN Resident Coordinator Ms. Mia Seppo. This sourcebook, which intends to support teachers in imparting climate change messages, has been developed by the Malawi Institute of Education, with support from UN CC:Learn and UNDP.
The National Climate Week…
28 July 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - On Friday 25 July, as the conflict in Gaza intensified, UNOSAT analysts prepared to spend another weekend working on incoming high-resolution satellite images of the areas concerned by the hostilities. Their job: assess from space the level of damage to civilian structures and community facilities in Gaza to help UNRWA and OCHA determine the humanitarian situation and the needs of the civilian populations caught in the conflict zone. UNRWA is the United Nations agency established in 1949 to provide assistance and protection to a…
UNITAR Roundtable on Sexual Violence Prevention
28 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland – On the 23 October, members of the UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) Advisory Board gathered in Geneva to further advise UNITAR leadership on how best UNITAR could contribute to promoting peace and security through training and capacity building. Back-to-back with the board meeting, a high level event was held on the subject of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
The panel of the roundtable included three of the eminent persons of the UNITAR PTP Advisory Board; namely the Special…
CIFAL Philippines Concluded Forum on the Role of the Philippines in the Association of South East Asian Nations
8 February 2018, Quezon City, Philippines - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in the Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) and the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Asian Center jointly organized the forum “The Role and Position of the Philippines in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)”, taking place on 8 February 2018 at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines.
The forum was conducted in partnership…
CIFAL Jeju hosted International Workshop on Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
20 - 23 March 2018, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province convened the workshop “Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific region” from the 20th to the 23rd of March. The workshop broight together 32 participants representing…