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UN CC:Learn Partner Countries Develop Recommendations for Successful Climate Change Learning Strategies
30 September - 1 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - Participants from the five UN CC:Learn pilot countries (Benin, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, Uganda) met with participants from three new partner countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan) to share experiences in the development and implementation of national climate change learning strategies during a UN CC:Learn workshop, 30 September and 1 October 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland.
“This workshop is a…
UN CC:Learn Endorses 5 Newly Appointed Ambassadors for Climate Change Learning at its 5th Steering Group Meeting
1 - 2 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - Participants from 16 UN organizations and 8 UN CC:Learn countries took part in the 5th Steering Group Meeting of UN CC:Learn Partners, 1-2 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting allowed to wrap up the first phase of the UN CC:Learn project and discuss activities for the second phase. Achievements of the pilot countries (Benin, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi and Uganda) were discussed, and three new…
The work of UNOSAT is widely known across the UN and its members states and appreciated by scores of humanitarian experts and responders in particular. Although the satellite programme has launched its humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service in 2003, its capacity has been boosted in more recent years by the evolution of technology and the greater availability and resolution of commercial satellite imagery. Today UNOSAT has doubled its team members and its capacity to respond to more requests more rapidly. In over ten years of work and more than 300 crises, UNOSAT analysts can…
Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Post-2015 Development, and the Future Climate Regime
Yale University, 5-7 September 2014
The 2014 Conference on Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Post-2015 Development Agenda, and the Future Climate Regime took place on 5-7 September 2014 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The Conference was organized by Yale University and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United National Development Programme (UNDP),…
Roundtable discussion the role of local communities in the prevention of sexual violence
Turning Commitment into Action
Organized on the occasion of the 6th session of UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme Advisory Board Meeting
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 15.00 – 17.00, Palais des Nations, Room V
Speakers
Opening remarks
Ms. Sally Fegan-Wyles, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Acting Head of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Keynote speaker
H.E. Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations…
UNITAR Strengthens Diplomats’ Skills to Efficiently Chair Conferences
October 2014, Rome, Italy – In times of multilateral decision-making, the Chair of an international conference or high-level meeting plays an essential role in ensuring an effective exchange of arguments and a substantive negotiation outcome. In light of the Chair’s important role, UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme organised a two-day workshop on “Chairing International Meetings and Working with the Chair” at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome…