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Workshop on Drating Resolutions
19-20 June 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office organized a two-day event, “Workshop on the Structure, Drafting, and Adoption of the United Nations Resolutions” on 19-20 June 2018 in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Sweden programme “levelling the playing field” to the United Nations. The workshop was attended by approximately 30 delegates from Permanent Missions to the UN. Mr. Marco A. Suazo,…
Fahimaさんは、アフガニスタンの起業家であり、国連ユニタール「グレート・アイデア・スペース 2023：アフガニスタンの食料安全保障と雇用創出のための起業家精神とイノベーション」の研修修了生です。本研修事業は、270人のアフガニスタン起業家を迎え、ビジネス の基本知識とスキルを提供しました。Fahimaさんはマーケティングとブランディングについて学び、収入創出に関するアドバイスのもと、ビジネスリスクを最小限に抑えるために取引業者層を多様化することを決意しました。Fahimaさんは、研修で得た知識を自身のビジネスと地元での女性と若者のエンパワーメントに応用しています。, 2025年2月25日、日本、広島－Fahimaさんは、女性の意気を高めることを目指し、アフガニスタンにアパレル会社を設立しました。国連ユニタールの研修事業「グレート・アイデア・スペース 2023：アフガニスタンの食料安全保障と雇用創出のための起業家精神とイノベーション」は、彼女のビジネスモデルとマーケティング戦略を徹底的に見直すきっかけとなりました。, Fahimaさんは、女性でありながらアフガニスタンでビジネスを経営することの難しさをよく知っています。彼女は、女性の雇用の機会を創出したいという願いから、2016 年にアパレル会社を設立しました。しかし、2...
UNOSAT is gradually integrating collaborative mapping and crowd sourcing into its work. In the case of the floods in Colombia, UNOSAT is reaching out to disaster managers and field staff in the country to assist with validation of the flood extent analysis and by sending in geographic position tagged photos. The application being used for this operation has been developed within the EU funded GEO-PICTURES project in which UNOSAT works with AnusR Technologies of Norway and numerous other partners....
UNITAR’s Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) is holding a five day training course on Human Security in the Practice of Peace Operations in Kuopio, Finland. The course is held in collaboration with Crisis Management Centre, and is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
The concept of human security first appeared as a post-Cold War attempt to transform the traditional understanding of security - framed in terms of the security of the territory from external military aggression and of the protection of national interests in foreign policy. Stemming from the…
As the situation in Pakistan continues to be a main concern due to new rainfall, UNOSAT analysts have completed on Thursday this week a series of maps derived from satellite imagery and aimed at identifying flood extent and impact on the affected populations in the Republic of Moldova.
UNOSAT had been working on Moldova since mid July when heavy rains and storms at the end of July caused floods in northern Moldova. Thousands of people have been evacuated while houses, bridges and roads have been damaged. In addition, people have been left without safe drinking water…
Financing urban water infrastructure is not easy: typically investments involve a high capital outlay and long pay-back periods, as well as greater risks and lower rates of return than other forms of infrastructure.
From July 22-23 2010, CIFAL Atlanta in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management hosted the Fifth “International Water Forum: Financing Water Systems and Governance”, bringing together representatives from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Uruguay, Colombia and major cities from United States.
The International Water Forum…
The National Environment Agency of The Gambia, with the support of UNITAR, launched a new project to “Strengthen Capacities for Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management (SAICM) and support GHS capacity building” at a workshop in Banjul on 18 August 2010.
Speaking at the workshop, The Gambia’s Minister of Forestry and the Environment, The Hon. Jatto Sillah, said that the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a new international tool that can be effectively used as a basis for developing…
30 July to 28 September 2012, Social Media tools, e-learning course
UNITAR is pleased to announce the opening of registrations of the sixth session of the Innovative Collaboration for Development course from 30 July to 28 September 2012.
Jointly developed by UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the ICfD is an e-learning course on social media tools, which has been awarded the 2011 International Open ECBCheck Quality Standards.
The overall goal of the course is to empower development professionals to recognize the potential of…
At the occasion of the session of the Board of Trustees of UNITAR, held on the 30th January 2009 in Paris, Carlos Lopes - Executive Director of UNITAR- and Henri Proglio- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VEOLIA Environnement - have renewed the partnership that unites the Local Development Programme and VEOLIA Environnement. This innovative cooperation has been initiated in 2002 after the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and it has been successfully and continuously renewed.
The contract is centered on two principal axes:
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Applications Open for World Heritage Nominations Training Workshop
August 2017, Hiroshima, Japan - Are you involved with a World Heritage nomination or site? Do you want to gain a deep understanding of the nomination process? The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 14th annual workshop of its World Heritage Nominations Training Series, with a deadline of 15 September 2017. The workshop will take place from 27 November to 1 December 2017 in Hiroshima Japan.
Featuring leading experts from…