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Breastfeeding is low-cost yet easily meets the nutritional needs of young babies. In other words, breastfeeding promises food security for babies and eases some of the household’s financial burdens. BFEI provides healthcare professionals and communities with evidence-based resources to advocate for exclusive breastfeeding, which supplies infants with all the necessary nutrients during the first six months of life., Every year, 3 million children die due to undernutrition. Breastfeeding could help avert many of these unnecessary deaths since breastmilk provides all the nutri...
While people across the globe are locked down under the COVID-19 pandemic and face-to-face learning has been curtailed, UNITAR Division of Prosperity is leveraging our extensive experience delivering innovative mobile-based learning to reach an increased number of women in spite of disruptions.
By quickly ramping up and expanding our online presence, UNITAR Prosperity continues to provide these women with the leadership, entrepreneurial, and financial literacy skills they need to improve their livelihoods in the face of the pandemic, challenge gender norms, and transform t...
UNITAR is supporting the UN Department of Peace Operations (DPO) and the UN office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) through implementing a join project on Effective Weapons and Ammunition Management in a Changing DDR Context, based on the handbook published by DPO and UNODA in 2018 and revised in 2021.
The objective of the initiative is to strengthen the knowledge, skills and attitudes on how to safely and securely handle, store and dispose of DDR weapons and ammunition and to enhance the capacity of DDR practitioners to properly manage weapons and ammunition in DDR contex...
18 October 2019, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations, B4 Development, and Generation Amazing, hosted an event on using behavioral insights and sports in preventing violent extremism. The event took place in Conference Room 6 at UN Headquarters on 18 October 2019.
The event began with introductory remarks by the Permanent Representative to Qatar to the United Nations, H.E. Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, followed by a video message fro...
Energy access is a critical and under-served need among the 134 million people in need of humanitarian assistance today. To help address this and related issues, in July 2019, the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) Humanitarian Working Group and Global Plan of Action (GPA) Coordination Unit, which UNITAR forms part of, will host two consecutive events – the annual SAFE Workshop & the first ever Humanitarian Energy Conference – to convene a broad community of stakeholders engaged in providing energy solutions to crisis-affected people. Both events will take place over...
December 2021 – We need the power of Generations Z and Alpha to tackle climate change. But while we recognize the importance of empowering youth, have we been helping them to act on their creativity and to reflect that back into their communities?
UNITAR Division for Prosperity hopes to do just that with its Youth Ambassador programmes, one in Hiroshima and another in Asia and the Pacific, where high school students develop projects to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)., One Hiroshima Youth Ambassador, Wakaba Takai (16), challenges the prevailing view i...
9 June 2021, Bonn, Germany - In the first three quarters of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a 30% fall in electronic and electrical equipment sales in low- and middle-income countries but only a 5% decline in high-income countries, highlighting and intensifying the digital divide between north and south, according to a new UN report.
Worldwide, sales of heavy electric appliances like refrigerators, washing machines and ovens fell the hardest -- 6-8% -- while small IT and telecommunications equipment decreased by only 1.4%. Within the latter category, sales of...
This project was established to preserve and pass on the valuable lessons and experience of Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General (SRSGs) and to ensure these are used to refine and enhance UN peace practice. The five components have included: 1) the debriefing of current and past representatives through in-depth interviews; 2) the publication of a book for new SRSGs based on a distillation of the major issues raised in those interviews; 3) the production of a set of DVDs/videos of the interviews; 4) a regular seminar for SRSGs and senior U...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity Director Mihoko Kumamoto attended the 2023 Sport for Future consortium conference in Tokyo, on 2 March 2023.
Hiroshima Yokogawa Sports Culture Club, a UNITAR partner, was awarded the annual prize for consortium members for promoting gender equality and peace through sports and international collaboration.
UNITAR and the Yokogawa Club have been partners since 2015 in promoting the Sustainable Development Goals through sports. The two organizations hosted the Afghanistan national women’s football team in Hiroshima for leadership training and...
14 April 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has concluded a four-day training on key leadership skills for Geneva's diplomatic community at the Palais des Nations, bringing together 31 participants from over 25 member states. This Collaborative Leadership Workshop consisted of 7 sessions, led by world-class experts, including Ambassadors, all working to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead engagingly and collaboratively.
The workshop began with opening remarks by Mr Nikhil Seth, UN ASG and UNITAR Executive Director, who stated, “We need each o...