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Linda Scott is the Deputy Ambassador for Namibia and she represents her country in the United Nations. Mrs. Scott has a deep interest in conflict resolution and negotiations, and it was this interest which motivated her to attend several UNITAR workshops.
“The first UNITAR workshop I attended was in 2008 and it was one of the highlights of my diplomatic career. It was a two-week negotiation skills programme that took place outside Oslo in Norway,” she explains. “It was phenomenal. We were a fantastic…
The UNITAR Iraq Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training Programme is a fellowship initiative that provides youth with skills in entrepreneurship and leadership to develop or strengthen local businesses that contribute to social and economic stability in their country. The programme objective is to equip the youth with hard skills to enhance project and business development and implementation (i.e., business planning, business and revenue models, needs assessment, sales, marketing and innovation strategies, and monitoring and evaluation techniques), and soft skills to...
UNITAR and the Geneva-based LALIVE law firm conducted a new e-learning course on “Introduction to Investment Arbitration” from March 14 to April 15, 2011. Twenty-one lawyers, officials and professionals mostly from developing countries and transition economies participated in this executive-level course which aimed at enabling participants to analyze key issues related to investment arbitration, and to apply the principles discussed to future situations.
The course on “Introduction to Investment Arbitration”, which was mentored by an international team of four arbitration…
Promoting Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development
6 September 2016, Quito, Ecuador - UNITAR’s Decentralized Cooperation Programme in collaboration with the Government of Ecuador hosted the webinar on “Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Sustainable Development” aimed at providing a space for discussion on how PPPs can be leveraged for sustainable development and help achieve the SDGs and implement the New Urban Agenda. More than 100 participants attended the webinar, representing local governments, private sector, civil society and academia from…
UNITAR and UNITAR Association invite Hiroshima high school students (grades 10 to 12) to apply to the “2024 UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme: Leaders for a New Era.”
The programme theme will be centred around nuclear disarmament and peacebuilding. The programme will take place mainly at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office and partially online, from 30 June to 30 August 2024.
The training programme is free of charge and financially supported by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government.
The deadline for the application is 3 June U2024 (10 a.m...
24 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - On 24 September 2020, 50 participants took part in a four-hour webinar on the topic “Sustainable Development Goals in the Private Sector”, organized and implemented by UNITAR and the Global Institute of Excellence in Hong Kong. In a short introduction, UNITAR’s executive director Nikil Seth explained how the Sustainable Development Goals and the private sector are ultimately connected and how the business sector has an immense influence on the impact of climate change and the ecological footprint. Especially now, in the mi...
Working towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires behavioural changes at various levels throughout global systems. Training and capacity-building are powerful ways that we can change behaviours, which is why it is important that learning design integrates behavioural science (BeSci) principles and knowledge.What is BeSci?As stated by the UN 2.0 initiative, nurturing behavioural science is about fostering our knowledge of how people act and make decisions – to create better choices and positive change that work with, not against, the grain of human nature.Behav...
Building Capacities in Cooperatives
19 May 2015, San Jose, Costa Rica – In the first week of May, CIFAL-Atlanta, in collaboration with the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU), CENECOOP, Fundepos University, Cooperative of the Americas (COOP), Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean, Central America and South America (CCC-CA), and the Ministry of Labor of the government of Costa Rica, held a three-day conference in San Jose, Costa Rica on cooperative competitiveness and the digital economy.
There were a total of 74 participants…
The Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa. It is known for its beaches, coral reefs and nature reserves. As such, sustainable fishing is a critical issue for the remote Indian Ocean Republic.
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) library is a research center, which encourages responsible fishing for sustainability. Biologists and other scientists from Seychelles and abroad, as well as students from the School of Maritime Academy in Seychelles use the library to access…
QCPR Module 2- Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review
29 April 2016, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office partnered with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) for the “Second Module of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review” on 29 April 2016. The workshop was attended by approximately 50 delegates from several Permanent Missions in New York.
Mr. Marco A. Suazo, Senior Advisor and Acting Head of the UNITAR…