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2 February 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Satellite Centre - UNOSAT released a comprehensive assessment of the damage and destruction inflicted on structures in the Gaza Strip. The analysis, based on very high-resolution satellite imagery collected on 6 and 7 January, paints a stark picture of the extent of devastation in the Gaza Strip.
The satellite imagery, acquired on 6 and 7 January 2024, was compared to images from 1 May 2023, 10 May 2023, 18 September 2023, 15 October 2023, 7 November 2023, and 26 November 2023.
22,131 structures have been identifie...
In October 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) jointly launched its first Arabic edition of the e-Learning course on 'Trade and Food Security'. This initiative aimed to support government representatives and related authorities in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region who are directly involved in shaping and executing agricultural policies and programmes. The course, which lasted for four weeks and was led by experts, was designed to help participants better understand the challenges an...
1 June 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Financial Technology (FinTech) is a silent revolution. Without making large waves, FinTech is transforming and facilitating practical aspects of our life. From simple bill payments and sending small money instantly to friends, to sophisticated and complex investments or trade orders, to tracing trends and ensuring follows up transactions involving recurrent finance - all can be done without moving from home or on a smartphone and at a fraction of the usual costs and commissions. Financial intermediation from banks, brokers, insurers and ot...
8 March 2023 – On International Women’s Day, 2023, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) announced the launch of its new “Master of Arts in Gender and Development” (hybrid format), in cooperation with the University for Peace (UPEACE). The announcement marked the continuation of a long-standing partnership, which combines the academic strength of UPEACE with the world-class executive-style training of UNITAR.
This master's programme aims to equip students with critical knowledge about gender studies in its intersections with development studies, f...
15 November 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR has been collaborating with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) since 2015 to assist African countries with their capacity building for sustainable development. To pursue this fruitful partnership, UNITAR-UNOSAT delivered the face-to-face training on “Strengthening the Project Monitoring Capacities of the BADEA” from 4 to 8 November 2018, in Khartoum, Sudan. Following the successful first edition taking place in December last year, the course was rolled out for the second time, dedicated to the BADEA projec...
プロバスケットボールチームを運営する株式会社広島ドラゴンフライズと国連ユニタールは、ともに持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）達成に貢献するため、協力覚書を締結しました。
4月7日に署名式を実施し、広島ドラゴンフライズの浦伸嘉代表取締役社長、ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局長兼広島事務所長の隈元美穂子が今後の協力を確認しました。
, 2022年4月7日・広島 ― ドラゴンフライズは、青少年育成などを目的とする「バスケでつながる風景プロジェクト」をはじめ、スポーツを通じてSDGsに取り組んでいます。国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局及び広島事務所は、主に開発途上国の人々を対象とした研修プログラムにより同目標のための働き掛けを行っています。
この両者が、それぞれの強みを生かして、①スポーツを通じた平和構築、②持続可能な開発、③格差・不平等の是正、④女性や青少年のエンパワーメントの4つのテーマに基づき、協働して活動することを確認した覚書となります。
署名式では、ユニタールのロゴが入った、広島ドラゴンフライズのユニフォームも紹介しました。...
8 December 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) launched a new initiative to support climate-resilient livelihood development in Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The overall objective is to inspire and empower women and youth to address key social, economic, and environmental challenges in their communities through climate-resilient livelihood and entrepreneurship programmes. Up to 50 participants per country will be selected to join the programme. Women and youth ...
5 July 2023, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s global network of CIFAL training centres is an instrumental platform dedicated to providing training and learning opportunities to a wide range of stakeholders, with special emphasis on local authorities and civil society leaders.
The CIFAL Global Network is composed of 30 International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders across Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North, Central and South America, reaching over 80,000 beneficiaries per year through almost 400 training and public awareness events on sustainable...
Support to the Global Monitoring Plan on POPs in the African Region
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Registration for the third round of the “Biennial Global Interlaboratory Assessment of POPs Laboratories” is now closed. It has been very successful with a record number of laboratories having registered.
GMP2 African Inception and New POPs Workshop
6 - 8 July 2016 - Accra, Ghana
Final results workshop on the UNEP/GEF project ´Tools and methods to include the nine new POPs into the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)...
On the 12th and 13th of March 2020, the Environmental Affairs Department (EAD) of Malawi, in collaboration with UNDP Malawi and UN CC:Learn, launched the UN CC:Learn project and held the National Planning Workshop. The two-day event built on the experiences from the development and implementation of Malawi’s 2013 National Climate Change Learning strategy with an opportunity to learn from other partner countries and has further strengthened the partnership between Malawi and UN CC:Learn, which dates back to 2012.
The workshop contributed with new ...