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2021年7月16日・広島 ― 400mハードル日本記録をもつ、元陸上選手の為末大さんが、国連ユニタール親善大使に就任しました。14日にオンラインで開催された記者会見で、「アジアの選手たちへのトレーニングを行いながら各国の選手の友好を広げる活動を行っていたので、ユニタールの活動に共感しました。ユニタールの活動をみなさんに知っていただきたい」と抱負を語りました。
為末さんは、スプリント種目の世界大会で日本人として初めてメダルを獲得し、シドニー・アテネ・北京と3度のオリンピックに日本代表として出場しました。2001年に男子400メートルハードルで日本記録を樹立され、2021年7月現在もその記録は破られていません。
広島市出身で、被爆三世でもあり、これまで様々な方法で世界中に平和や持続可能な社会のための対話を呼び掛けてもきました。現在は執筆活動や会社経営に取り組んでおり、新豊洲Brilliaランニングスタジアムの館長としてパラスポーツの推進にも尽力。東日本大震災発生後には積極的にスポーツ界に被災地支援を呼び掛けたほか、国際レベルのコーチが少ない発展途上国で、国際競技力向上の支援も行ってきました。
14日の会見では、国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局長の隈元美穂子とともに、国連ユニタール親善大使の取り組みや就任への経緯などを説明。為末さ...
17 April 2023, New York, USA - UNITAR & Columbia Law School conducted the last session for the Spring series titled “The Power of Asking the Right Questions & Giving Effective Feedback”. Pelayo Alvarez, Programme Manager at UNITAR New York Office, started by welcoming our in-person and virtual audience and then introduced Rebecca Price, Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Columbia Mediation Clinic team.
Effective communication is the cornerstone of successful re...
2024年12月21日、250名以上の研修参加者が国連ユニタール「スーダン緊急支援：組織能力と生計向上を通じた社会経済の安定促進」研修事業 の第1フェーズを修了しました。紛争が勃発してから約2年が経過した今、スーダンは依然として政情不安、経済の低迷、数百万人の強制移動に苦しんでいます。日本政府の支援により開催されている国連ユニタールのオンライン研修事業は、参加者にデジタル分野と起業におけるスキルを提供しています。これにより、気候変動に強い革新的なビジネスを立ち上げ、食料不安や貧困の課題への取り組みを促進することを目指しています。第2フェーズは2月上旬から始まっており、オンライン・ブートキャンプの後、2日間のバーチャルハッカソンを行います。また、上位20名の参加者は今後第3フェーズへと進みます。, 2025年2月4日、ジュネーブ、スイス - 2024年12月21日に250名以上の女性と若者が国連ユニタール「スーダン緊急支援：組織能力と生計向上を通じた社会経済の安定促進」研修事業の第1フェーズを修了しました。日本国政府拠出の本事業は、2024年8月より開始されました。スーダンでは紛争が勃発してから約2年が経過し、依然として拡大し続ける人道的危機に直面する中、同事業では、スーダン国民が食料不安と貧困に対処できるよう、農業ビジネスを中心に起...
22 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. Last week for the first time UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) implemented its new workshop on “Positivity Skills”. During the two day training the participants learned how to remain positive and spread positivity in their team as well as how to tackle challenges with a positive attitude. The workshop itself ran very positively and at the end many participants even stated that they would like to have a follow-up workshop. “I had a great time and would much appreciate a level two workshop of this kind”, one of the diplomats…
August 2011, Western Cape, South Africa -The Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (D: EA&DP) has developed a mercury emissions inventory of the Province, following the methodology proposed in UNEP’s Toolkit for the Identification and Quantification for Mercury Emissions.
The provincial inventory will feed information into the national inventory, providing examples of the main sources of mercury emissions that can be found at the local level. D:EA&DP identified medical waste incineration, waste water effluent, sludge disposal to…
From the 23rd to the 25th of June 2010, the first workshop in Europe under the global Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) Initiative took place in Tirana, Albania. The event brought together 25 participants from regional authorities and from national government in Albania. It was supported by UNEP within the context of the TACC initiative, a collaboration of UNDP, UNEP, UNITAR and UNHABITAT. UNITAR supported the workshop through the development of training material and participation of a resource person.
In opening the workshop, the Secretary General of…
9 April 2013, Kabul, Afghanistan - UNITAR recently launched the Call for Applications for the 10th annual cycle of its highly successful Fellowship for Afghanistan Programme. The Fellowship is a seven-month long programme which builds the capacity and enhances the leadership, management, and professional skills of a core group of senior government officials, academics, and practitioners from Afghanistan. Sharing Hiroshima's lessons in post-conflict reconstruction, the Fellowship discusses important themes such as organization development and change, project design and…
25 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - CIFAL Scotland and UNITAR have partnered with Stakeholder Forum to offer a unique e-learning opportunity on the fundamentals of the Post-2015 Development Framework. The course responds to the ongoing international debate around the construction of a new development framework.
In June 2012, governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio+20) agreed to launch a UN led process to create a set of universal Post-2015 Development Framework. Based upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),…
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) has opened enrolment to the “8th International Training Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management (GIS4DRM-8)” that will take place in Bangkok from 07th-18th May 2012.
The course is co-organized by ADPC the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, the Netherlands (ITC), and UNOSAT. The GIS4DRM course aims to provide an overview of the use of spatial information in Disaster Risk Management. During their two weeks in Bangkok participants…
UN agencies discuss opportunities to work as one on Climate Change Capacity Building and Development
The United Nations agencies on Monday 8th December 2008, presented to an audience of more than 100 participants their capacity building and development activities to address climate change.
The side event which was hosted by UNITAR at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, was in collaboration with UNEP and UNDP and included presentations from: UN-HABITAT, WFP and UNFPA as well as remarks from Adnan Amin of the UN system Chief Executives Board for coordination, Sudhir Sharma of the UNFCCC and Achim Halpaap of UNITAR.…