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UNITAR offers courses that run throughout the year or several times a year that are free-of-charge and open to the public. For more information about courses offered, please see below. , This self-paced course, jointly delivered by UNITAR and IUCN, promotes a dynamic learning approach through interactive lessons and multimedia contents. Participants will understand the nexus between biodiversity, climate change and land-use plans; discover the rights and roles of different stakeholders in the planning and decision-making process; and consider ways to col...
2 April 2024, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Jeju was established in 2010 through a collaboration between UNITAR and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, and the International Peace Foundation.
CIFAL Jeju’s mission is to deliver high-quality capacity-building programmes to help civil servants address complex challenges through innovative approaches and to empower local actors to advance towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. CIFAL Jeju seeks to support Jeju Province in its effor...
19-21 November 2018, Brussels, Belgium – UNITAR hosted the Annual Meeting of its Network of Affiliated International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Brussels and in Antwerp, Belgium. The Directors of 15 CIFAL Centres gathered for three days to review its performance in 2018, discuss opportunities for collaboration, exchange knowledge and expertise, and to develop the training calendar for 2019., The Annual Meeting also served to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the CIFAL Global Network, which took place at the Flemish Parliament with s...
23 June 2025, New York, USA - Just steps from the United Nations Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, UNITAR’s “Safe Driving is Cool” mural stands at the corner of Tunnel Exit Street and E 39th Street. This 5,200 square feet public artwork is a reminder that road safety is a shared responsibility, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.6, which aims to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2030. Art has long been a powerful medium to spark social transformation. This mural demonstrates how street art can contribute to buil...
04 December 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Training Initiative and the International Road Federation (IRF) partnered to deliver a series of Master Classes on the “Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit” in the framework of regional conferences.
The first Master Class took place on the 29th of October 2020, in the framework of the 9th IRF Caribbean Regional Congress on “Preparing the Caribbean for a Decade of Change”. During this Master Class, 187 participants from 34 countries were introduced by UNITAR to the “Management Practices for Sa...
15 July 2019, New York, USA – In the framework of the High-Level Political Forum 2019: Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality, UNITAR launched an interactive e-learning Road Safety Toolkit that presents a practical management methodology to:
Collect data on the number and location of deaths by road user type
Identify hazardous and critical road locations and sections where excessive numbers or severity of crashes occur
Outline corrective measures
Implement interventions and monitor results
The Toolkit is based on the premise that achieving road sa...
8 December 2018, Durban, South Africa – Prior to the arrival of the Holiday Season, the Durban Metro Police in partnership with UNITAR officially launched their “No Texting & Driving campaign”.
Driver distraction is a major risk factor for road traffic injuries and fatalities. Using mobile phones can cause drivers to take their eyes off the road, their hands off the steering wheel, and their minds off the road and the surrounding situation. Drivers using mobile phones are approximately 4 times more likely to be involved in a crash than drivers not using a mobile ...
Significant progress on road safety can be achieved through global cooperation, implementation of evidence-based strategies and engagement with all relevant actors, including the private sector, as well as additional innovative approaches.With the aim of contributing to advance road safety, the United Nations Institute for Training And Research (UNITAR) developed the "Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit Learning App" which presents a practical management methodology that can be applied in the field of road safety.The App provides in-hand practical solutions, partic...
Franklin University Switzerland and UNITAR organized a joint event during the Open Geneva Hackathon Festival. The online Hackathon "Food as a nexus for synchronic urban and rural development" offered a platform to generate innovative ideas to rethink and improve food as a linkage for development in rural and urban areas. The hackathon lasted three days and was delivered entirely online, allowing participants worldwide to join the event.
The event included the participation of UN-Habitat, FAO and UNITAR experts to facilitate workshops and group work activities. Four w...
06 August 2019, Quezon City, Philippines – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization and UN Women launched the Global Migration Professional Course at the School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman.
The main objective of this course is to exchange knowledge through a comparative and pragmatic approach on the challenges in migration management. This one-month-course is comprised of 7 modules distrib...