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25 May 2021, Hong Kong, China / Hiroshima, Japan - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) and ITS Education Asia will jointly launch the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme in Hong Kong and other cities in China. The 10-week programme empowers high school students to help our world build back better, greener, and stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. It trains the young people on sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Youth are the driving force of social development and how we act...
While UNOSAT has consistently met high standards in very short delivery timelines, the new Data-in-hand strategy is an attempt to routinely approach actual near-real-time analysis. Francesco Pisano, Manager of UNOSAT, says “this level of responsiveness is not new at UNOSAT. What is new is our strategy to make this a standard feature. We keep looking downstream at user requirements in the field and we equip ourselves with what it takes to do better each time in responding to these”. In commenting on the attempts being done in some quarters of the GIS and space communities to...
Franco Escobar, a research fellow and PhD student from Mexico, aims to reinvigorate youth involvement in nuclear disarmament.In 2023, Franco took part in the Youth Leader Fund Programme for a World without Nuclear Weapons, which connects future leaders from various countries to advance disarmament efforts.Franco is creating the first youth archive of nuclear disarmament, documenting the stories of young activists to reclaim authorship of the Nuclear Age., 3 November 2024, Hiroshima, Japan - Hailing from Mexico, Franco Escobar, a research fellow at the Hiroshima Peace Instit...
UNITAR alumna Karmen Chebib is Head of the Information and Public Relations Unit at the Center for Educational Research and Development, Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon.
Karmen Chebib recently completed UNITAR's Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) training programme.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Karmen led her unit in training teachers on how to counteract gender stereotypes and encountered all kinds of attitudes and practices.
Karmen is applying what she learned in the programme to her work. In her organization, she develop...
The MA in Global Sustainability Leadership is a collaboration between Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) and UNITAR, designed to develop leaders capable of addressing the complex challenges of sustainability, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution. This transformative programme provides academic excellence, practical skills, and global networking opportunities, preparing graduates to drive meaningful change worldwide. The programme offers two flexible study options: a full-time, one-year blended programme, which combines face-to-face modules at TU Dublin with ...
The Institute’s evaluation function is guided by an evaluation policy and serves accountability, decision-making, organizational learning and quality improvement purposes.The policy is operationalized at the centralized and decentralized levels. At the centralized level, the Planning, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Unit acts as the custodian of the evaluation function and undertakes independent evaluations of projects and other undertakings e.g. on a cluster or thematic basis. At the decentralized level, Programme Units undertake self-evaluations of projects and...
21 May 2024, Bali, Indonesia – UNITAR’s Global Water Academy (UGWA) proudly hosted the side event entitled ‘Enhancing Transboundary Water Management and SDGs: A Collaborative Approach’ in collaboration with CIFAL Singapore (Nanyang Technological Institute), and CIFAL Bangkok (Asian Institute of Technology) at the World Water Forum (WWF) in Bali, Indonesia.
The side event aimed to bridge two critical aspects of global water challenges: transboundary water management and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 6. This aligns with the overarc...
الترجمة باللغة العربية - TRANSLATION IN ARABIC , Following years of instability and a decade-long transitional period, Libya today is at a perilous crossroads threatening prospects for stability and reconciliation lingering on the horizon. The highly precarious situation is risking political and security deadlocks that have for years affected all major aspects of life for different generations in the country.
“Towards locally led stabilization and reconciliation in Libya”, is a UNITAR-led project in collaboration with the Government of Japan that builds on the o...
Nanosafety Regional Workshop for the Asia-Pacific Region, Thailand, 10 to 11 September 2015
Working under the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC), UNITAR has implemented, since 2009, a range of activities to support developing countries in raising awareness on nanosafety issues and consider the implications of nano-based and nano-containing products traded across borders. Core funding for these activities has been generously provided by the Government of Switzerland.
Date and Location:
Bangkok, Thailand, 10-11 September 2015
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ILO offices, Geneva Switzerland
9 and 10 September 2019
Background
Governance-related issues related to the “Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management and the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020” have been the focus of several recent studies and international discussions, and are expected again to receive significant attention at the upcoming meeting of the intersessional process (IP3) in Bangkok, Thailand, 1 – 4 October 2019.
Workshop objectives
To help address this and other relevant questions, and as a contributi...