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19 October 2018, New York, USA – The United Nations for Training and Research (UNITAR) held a briefing for 63 administrative service officers from the Government of India in collaboration with Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. These administrative officers represented 20 different states within India and many of them started from grass-root roles to now, policy-making roles with 15-20 years of government experience.
UNITAR New York Head of Office Mr. Marco Suazo opened the session by welcoming the administrative service officers and thanking the Permanent M...
On 4 February 2025, UNITAR welcomed 17 professionals from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon to Japan for the Phase 3 workshop of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation training programme.The workshop will run from 4 February to 11 February and will be held in Tokyo and Hiroshima.In this final phase, participants will focus on refining their business and project plans in the agriculture and food sectors, developed during the previous phases, into feasible and practical business enterprises.On the final day of the workshop, the participants are expected to pitch ideas to showcas...
Mariya Asagi is a development professional from Japan who specializes in educational and humanitarian support.She participated in the Primary Course, part of The Programme for Global Human Resource Development for Peacebuilding and Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, held online and in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan, in January and February 2025. Hiroshima University is commissioned to implement the Programme, in collaboration with the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR...
2 March 2023, Cascais, Portugal - UNITAR and Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) join forces to establish the first International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Cascais, Portugal. The partnership with Nova SBE recognizes its work on applied research and commitment to developing new approaches that will help meet society’s most urgent challenges by providing innovative training and facilitating the exchange of knowledge amongst government officials, the private sector, and civil society.
UNITAR’s network of affiliated “CIFAL” cent...
18 February 2021, Brussels, Belgium – UNITAR’s International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders based in Antwerp (CIFAL Flanders) organized the learning webinar ‘Aligning the European Recovery – Belgium as a case study’. The event was organized in cooperation with SDSN Belgium bringing together over 350 participants from around the globe.
To recover from the COVID-19 crisis, the EU will make €672.5 billion available through its Recovery and Resilience Facility. To benefit from the support of the Facility, Belgium and the other Member States will prepare recovery ...
20 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland — From 24 to 26 June 2025, UNITAR supported a three-day workshop in Castries, Saint Lucia, as part of the country’s ongoing experimental data project. The initiative aims to explore the integration of data collected via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with other sources, namely the 2022 Population and Housing Census, satellite imagery, household surveys, and citizen-generated data, to produce official statistics.As informal settlement areas are rapidly changing, utilizing UAV imagery would be a cost-effective method to improve population ...
15 December 2022, New York City, U.S.A. – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research New York Office lead the annual Orientation Course of the Economic and Social Council for 2022-2023. The day-long training was held in a hybrid format, with majority of attendees joining in person in the ECOSOC Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters and more attendees connecting through Webex. , Consisting of nine courses and lasting from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST, the orientation course addressed several topics such as the working methods and structure of the ECOSOC, the...
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University have launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Infrastructure Asset Management for Sustainable Development. The course was developed based on the UN publication “Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development: A Handbook for Local and National Governments” – the result of a joint collaboration of UN DESA, UNCDF and UNOPS.
This e-learning course a...
30 September 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has released the 9th update of its assessment of the damage inflicted on buildings in the Gaza Strip. This analysis, based on very high-resolution satellite imagery collected on 3 and 6 September 2024, shows that two thirds of the total structures in the Gaza Strip have sustained damage. UNOSAT compared imagery captured on 3 and 6 September 2024 with previous data, providing a comprehensive view of the evolution of the destructions.Those 66% of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip acco...
November 2021 - This article brings some light into the black box of how the transition can be tackled in practice, and is written by Eliya Devay, graduate of the UNITAR-Franklin University Switzerland Joint Master’s programme in Responsible Leadership & Climate Action. Eliya is specialized in Sustainable Finance and currently works at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) as a Consultant.
In light of the recent COP26, this article features outcomes and reflections from Eliya's experiential learning project with UNEP FI, as part of his ...