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17 October 2018, Kabul, Afghanistan - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office, with the support of the Government and People of Japan, launched this week the UNITAR Women’s Leadership Programme for Afghanistan: Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The programme builds upon the experiences and lessons learned from UNITAR Hiroshima’s engagement with Afghanistan over the past 15 years. Focusing on empowering women and fostering inclusive and effective governance in Afghanistan, the training progr...
19 August 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR is pleased to announce that its Division for Prosperity and Japanese sporting goods company SSK Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the use of sports as a medium of peace and understanding. SSK created a soccer jersey donning the UNITAR logo, and the jerseys were worn by the soccer players during the “Peace Match” held in Hiroshima on 7 August 2021.
The Hiroshima Football Association 2021 Balcom BMW Peace Match is an annual event held in Hiroshima to commemorate the lives lost and the destruc...
Mayor of Malaga, Spain
He has been Mayor of Malaga since 2000, and was re-elected by an absolute majority on three consecutive occasions (2003, 2007 and 2011). He was also re-elected in 2015 and 2019. Mayor De La Torre Prados has been the Vice President of the Euro-Mediterranean Paternariado of Regional and Local Assembly (since 2010), and Vice President of the Euro-Mediterranean Association of Local and Regional Assembly. He has notable involvement in the development of Malaga as a pioneer city in Smart City and Sustainable Development.
Mayor…
Nearly 30 officials and professionals from 11 Pacific small island countries embarked on a 12-day study tour in Japan as part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) “Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response to Climate Crises through Early Warning Systems” training programme.The study tour aims to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively disseminate, monitor, analyse and respond to early warning signals for climate hazards and extreme weather events through expert-led lectures, field visits and group assignment...
On the 8th of December, UNITAR signed a new cooperation framework in
information technologies with the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, CERN . In signing this agreement, UNITAR intends to develop the
long standing and fruitful collaboration that its operational satellite
applications programme "UNOSAT" already had with CERN. Thanks to this
partnership UNITAR will benefit from the CERN IT infrasctructure, and the
partners will notably engage themselves in joint research projects to
develop the practical uses of high technologies for the realisation of the
mission…
The UNITAR Operational Satellite Training Programme (UNOSAT) contributes to human security, peace and socio-economic development by providing integrated satellite-based solutions for governments as well as relief and development organizations within and outside the UN system. As part of its capacity development activities, a two-week training programme took place in Bhutan, with support from the State of Qatar. With funding through the newly-established Strategic Framework Fund, the programme aimed to enhance the use of geospatial technologies for evidence-based decision ma...
UNITAR and WAIFEM Sign an Agreement to Jointly Conduct Diploma Courses on Macroeconomic Policy Management
24 November 2015, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) have signed an agreement to jointly conduct Diploma Courses on finance and debt-related topics for the WAIFEM-member countries in West Africa and beyond.
During the signing session in Geneva, the UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhil Seth, warmly…
新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大とともに、虚偽の情報やデマが氾濫し、世界各国の人々の生活に影響を与えています。嘘や誤情報の拡散が健康と命を守るための政策や個人の選択に致命的な打撃を与え混乱をもたらし、インフォデミックーInfodemic）（「インフォーメーション（情報）」＋「エピデミック（流行）」）の時代に突入しています。
2020年11月、国連ユニタールの多国間外交局と持続可能な繁栄局は、国際連合教育科学文化機関（ユネスコ）の情報コミュニケーション局とともに、インフォデミックに立ち向かうためモバイル環境で学ぶことができるeラーニングコースを立ち上げました。偽情報の氾濫に対するあなたのリテラシーのレベルを楽しみながらテストし、対応策を学ぶことができます。このコースは、ユネスコの「インフォデミック－新型コロナウイルスに関する虚偽情報を読み解く」と「インフォデミック－新型コロナウイルスの虚偽情報に関する対処法の分析」（https://en.unesco.org/covid19/disinfodemic）に基づいて実施されます。
本コースでは対話型のマイクロラーニング学習方法を使用し、1回の授業は5～10分間の短時間で区切られているため、隙間時間を利用して学ぶことができます。9つのタイプの新型コロナウイルスに関する虚偽情報、4つのフォーマットモード...
Finalizing a series of successful negotiations between UNITAR, the Special Self-Governing Province of Jeju and the International Peace Foundation (IPF) – started mid 2009 – M. Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR, will be visiting the island of Jeju (Republic of South Korea) from March 30th to March 31th.
The purpose of this mission is to sign the partnership agreement between UNITAR and International Peace Foundation for the establishment of CIFAL Jeju and to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between UNITAR and the Special Self-Governing Province of Jeju.…
25-26 June 2010, Batam, Indonesia
UNITAR, United cities and Local governments (UCLG) and its regional Asia Pacific Section, United cities and Local Governments / Asia Pacific (UCLG/ ASPAC) jointly organized a workshop on Local Governments Finances on 25-26 June 2010 in Batam, Indonesia. This workshop is part of a series of workshops on local finances implemented by the Local Development Programme of UNITAR, thanks to the financial support of the French government.
The workshop focused on decentralization in Asia pacific region and the topic of…