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26-27 September 2019, Lagos, Nigeria - As countries around the world move to attain the United Nation’s goal of sustainable cities and communities, the Nigerian government has reinstated its determination to strategically collaborate with UNITAR and the private sector to conduct high visibility enforcement programmes to reduce deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes.
UNITAR in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the support of Diageo hosted a two-day training workshop that involved practical checkpoint exercises and use o...
Since 2016, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, in collaboration with the Government of Japan, has organized the “UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day”. The programme's objective is to strengthen women professionals’ knowledge of tsunami-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) to better prevent, prepare, confront, and recover from tsunami-related disasters. It also develops skills in women’s leadership, inclusive approach to DRR, effective communication, and development of multi-stakeholder coal...
2 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – Ambassadors and representatives of Permanent Missions in Geneva were invited to join our 5th Friends of UNITAR Meeting, to learn more about UNITAR, its activities and our new Strategic Framework 2018 - 2021., The two Co-Chairs, Her Excellency Ambassador Terhi Hakala (Finland) and Her Excellency Ambassador Beatriz Londono Soto (Colombia) opened the event followed by a welcome message by UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNITAR Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth., During this meeting, five short presentations covering UNITAR’s thematic and...
In a change of focus determined by the conclusion of search and rescue operations in Haiti, UNOSAT closed its Rapid Mapping activation and embarked at the request of UNDP on a comprehensive damage assessment analysis over Port-au-Prince and neighbouring cities. The analysis, which builds also on parallel work performed by the European Commission JRC, French company SERTIT, Germany’s DRL/ZKI, Italy’s ITHACA and others, will contribute substantially in firming up the number of buildings affected by the tremor and will lead to a more precise estimate of the resources required ...
8 April 2024, Victoria, Canada - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in the City of Victoria was established in 2022 as a collaboration between UNITAR and the University of Victoria to deliver training activities and research that build on UVic's commitments to the UN SDGs and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
CIFAL Victoria seeks to connect Victoria and the surrounding region with the global community through international knowledge-sharing and partnerships, with a focus on four key themes:
Oceans, climat...
31 January 2024, Panama City, Panama – UNITAR, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Land Transit and Transportation Authority of Panama and partners from the private sector, conducted a road safety workshop on the UNITAR Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit. The workshop primarily targeted government officials and other members of the public sector involved in road safety-related activities across Panama.
For the first time, UNITAR introduced the Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit in Panama. This is an interactive online le...
30 April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (NAZAHA) successfully hosted a 4-day workshop on Leadership and Anti-Corruption in Kuwait City, from 24 to 27 March 2019. Effective leadership, transparency and anti-corrupt structures are fundamental to efficient organizations. The uniquely tailored workshop covered these essential topics and allowed selected staff from different departments of NAZAHA not only to enhance their leadership skills but also to raise their a...
Until 08 October 2024, Poland had received 981,335 refugees[1] from Ukraine fleeing the war in the country, most of whom are women and children (UNHCR, 2024a, 2024b). Efforts to assist refugees’ economic integration are underway, including job training and language classes, with support from international and local organizations (UNHCR, 2024b). As part of these efforts, the UNITAR Division for Prosperity, with financial support from the Government and the People of Japan, organized the programme “Emergency assistance for Ukrainian women refugees in Poland with digital 4IR t...
27 April 2021, Kabul, Afghanistan / Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR is pleased to announce that its Division for Prosperity and Capacity for Afghanistan (C4A), the country’s first official think tank, launched the new partnership designed to facilitate the development of joint training programmes that will support the country’s peacebuilding and professional development efforts. On 22 April 2021, the signing ceremony was held in Kabul.
Under the agreement, the two organizations will jointly raise funds and implement the trainings, wh...
09 March 2023, Merida, Mexico – Together with airport executives, and civil and aeronautical authorities, CIFAL Merida has met in the city of Merida Yucatan, to review with specialists from the National Hurricane Centre, and renowned meteorologists, the processes of preparation of airports for their immediate reopening in case of being impacted by a tropical cyclone.
As happens every year, before the start of the hurricane season in the Pacific and the Atlantic, ASUR's Merida International Airport, through CIFAL Merida, convenes the eighteenth edition of the international ...