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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…
“Heavy rains in Colombia have affected close to 2 million persons”, the country's president Juan Manuel Santos said on Sunday after inspecting floods in the northern “Atlantico department”.
Following his overflight of some of the affected areas, the president confirmed the arrival of international aid, stressing that the country needed more assistance.
The floods were made worse by the effects of the weather phenomenon “La Niña”, with rains in the second part of the month of November exceeding previous historical records. The International Federation of the Red Cross…
Keynote speakers of the 6th edition of the Geneva Lecture Series jointly organized by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and UNITAR, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy discussed the implications and lessons of the financial crisis for global economic growth and economic and financial governance models.The conference that took place at Palais des Nations in Geneva, on 8 December 2010 followed the usual format of the initiative - an interactive debate with journalists and the general public following the keynote addresses - and attracted 1700 people in attendance…
The latest OCHA Humanitarian Update on south Sudan clearly indicates that “In the context of the upcoming January 2011 referendums, the humanitarian community is taking a number of steps to be prepared in the event of referendum-related violence”. OCHA and all other UN agencies active in humanitarian response in the country are very active in assessing the situation as the date of the referendum approaches.
In this connection UNOSAT is making a special effort to meet the requests of various agencies and ensure that its capabilities for satellite analysis and…
Keynote speakers of the 6th edition of the Geneva Lecture Series jointly organized by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and UNITAR, Heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy discussed the implications and lessons of the financial crisis for global economic growth and economic and financial governance models. The conference that took place at Palais des Nations in Geneva, on 8 December 2010, followed the usual format of the initiative - an interactive debate with journalists and…
An intense and productive training of trainers (ToT) was run in Cairo from the 4th – 6th December, 2010 in partnership with the Cairo Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA). The programme saw innovative and interactive training techniques utilized in the delivery and training of individuals from civil society, universities and government. The programme helped participants increase their use of training methodologies, while at the same time immersing them in concepts of natural resource management and peacekeeping.
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The online course Governance in Urban Sanitation, implemented by the Local Development Programme, is among the first e-Learning courses to be awarded with the Open ECBCheck certification for its compliance with the International Open ECBCheck Standards.
The Open ECBCheck is an accreditation and quality improvement scheme for e-Learning programmes. It supports capacity building organizations to assess the quality of their e-Learning programmes, facilitating continuous improvement through peer reviews and collaboration. Initially developed by the European Foundation for…
What are good and illustrative case studies of effective capacity development supported by UN agencies that deliver results on climate change in Member States? This question was at the heart of the discussions at the One-UN COP-16 side event on Capacity Building as a Driver of Low-Emission, Climate-Resilient Development, 1 December 2010, Cancun, Mexico. The event was co-organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the co-conveners for capacity development under the One UN Climate Change Action…