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April 19th, 2024, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm CEST, blended format in Varembé Conference Centre (CCV) , 9-11 rue de Varembé, CH-1202 Geneva and online.
In July 2023, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres announced the release of a new policy brief with a “New Agenda for Peace”. 30 years after the original “Agenda for Peace”, this new roadmap sets a new tone in a starkly different world: “We are now at an inflexion point. The post-cold war period is over. A transition is underway to a new global order”. Signaling a pivotal moment, the New Ag...
Women and youth in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe are invited to apply for the UNITAR programme Developing Green Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Africa: Strengthening Food Security, Supporting Climate-Resilient Economies.
The training programme aims to build the participants’ entrepreneurial and digital skills so they can develop climate-resilient businesses and create inclusive, environmentally responsible and viable employment and livelihood opportunities that contribute to climate mitigation.
The programme will run from September 2023 to February 2024 and have onli...
8 June 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - The 2022 World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI) Ranking, seeking to assess the innovativeness of universities for the future, will be presented on June 9, 2022, at 3:00 pm (CET)/10:00 pm (KST) in both Switzerland and South Korea. This ranking for innovative universities is designed to highlight and appreciate the efforts of universities to produce a future workforce aligning with the growing demands among entrepreneurs in contemporary society.
This ranking of innovative universities is organized by the Institute for Policy and...
On 11 February 2025, UNITAR signed a memorandum of understanding with QSS AI and Robotics, a Saudi Arabian technology company, to advance artificial intelligence and robotics in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.The partnership will develop and deliver training programmes, workshops and research initiatives on AI and robotics in education, health care, environment sustainability and economic development.UNITAR and QSS AI and Robotics collaborate to drive inclusive and sustainable economic prosperity across the world through innovation and technology., 12 February...
September 2021 - Crowd4SDG Consortium has launched the second GEAR Cycle of the project. This year the project aims to address two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Goal 13 on Climate Change and Goal 5 on Gender Equality. With its launch, it calls for projects that will aim to tackle climate change and gender challenges with crowdsourcing solutions. This is an open challenge competition that uses crowdsourcing as a way to gather information or stimulate actions taken by large numbers of ordinary citizens. Individuals or teams can propose projects at the scale of ...
In August 2021, Crowd4SDG launched the second GEAR Cycle of the project. This year’s GEAR Cycle focuses on two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – SDG 13 on Climate Change and SDG 5 on Gender Equality.
GEAR Cycles include four phases in its implementation: Gather, Evaluate, Accelerate and Refine. The first phase, Gather, kicked off in August with the launch of a call for projects for Open Seventeen (017). This year’s call focused on projects tackling the many challenges related to climate change and gender issues, with the application of crowdsourcing solutions. T...
I am delighted to share our work and progress of 2018 at UNITAR Hiroshima Office. 2018 has been a fruitful year for both Hiroshima and the UNITAR Hiroshima Office. Hiroshima’s local baseball team, Toyo Carp, has claimed the Central League Championship for the third year in a row. The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has also been busy and active, celebrating its 15th anniversary since it began operations in 2003.
We have implemented numerous capacity building training workshops inside and outside Japan, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targeted at leaders fro...
Mwikali Munyao, Kenyan carpenter and entrepreneur, participated in the first round of the UNITAR Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, Mwikali lost her job as a customer service agent. She decided to pursue her interest in carpentry and turned it into a business.
The UNITAR training taught her the entrepreneurial skills she needed and helped her business overcome financial challenges.
The second round of the UNITAR entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership training programme, r...
2022年も残りわずかになりました。本年も国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局は、「新たな日常」のなかで、実務的なスキルや考え方を得られる学びの機会を必要とする多くの方にお届けしようとまい進して参りました。
来年2023年は、ユニタールにとって特別な年となります。ユニタールが創設されてから60周年、ユニタール広島事務所が設立してから20周年を迎えます。研修の提供や組織強化に一層力を入れ、SDGs達成に貢献して参ります。
※リンク先が英文となっている場合があります。ご了承ください。, 2022年11月22日、東アフリカ地域政府間開発機構事務局は国際連合開発計画（UNDP）・ユニタールと共同で、女性を対象とした起業・金融リテラシーオンライン研修を東アフリカで開始しました。25名の女性起業家がパイロット事業に参加し、5週間のオンライン研修と1週間の地域別対面ワークショップに取り組んでいます。研修を通して、参加者の起業及び金融に関する能力を強化し、参加者が自身でビジネスの機会を見出し、地域課題の解決に貢献することを目指しています。
なお同研修は、2021年にユニタールが実施した、アフリカにおけるジェンダー平等と女性の地位向上プロジェクトにおける、研修ニーズ調査の結果に基づいて作成されました。
もっと読む, 2022年9月、ユ...
“Born and bred in Nigeria”, as her typical first name indicates, 37 years old Sa’adatu Bowsan developed an interest in political topics in her early youth, although coming from a family that never was heavily implicated in politics in the first place. That interest developed further when she enrolled to study political science in Abuja’s university from 1999 to 2002, bringing back a Degree in that field that very year. Later, she took part in various trainings, monitored elections and political events, consulted with political institutions and worked with organisations in…