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16 November 2020, Dakar, Senegal – To join the global activities during the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Dakar, in partnership with the Municipality of Dakar, and with the support of Diageo inaugurated on 16 November 2020 the training course “High Visibility Enforcement Interventions: Law Enforcement to Reduce Road Traffic Crashes related to Drivers using Alcohol”.
Mr. Mouhamed Diop, Director of CIFAL Dakar, inaugurated the event that welcomed 50 law enforcement offic...
Négocier pour la paix et engager un dialogue afin de relever les défis est une priorité absolue pour l'Afrique - un continent qui s'est engagé à "faire taire les armes" et à construire une paix durable. Compte tenu de la récente instabilité observée dans les régions et pays francophones du continent, le Programme de Formation de l'UNITAR pour la Prévention des Conflits et le Rétablissement de la Paix en Afrique francophone, avec un accent particulier sur l'Afrique centrale, a été très bien accueilli par les fonctionnaires participants des Ministères des Affaires étrangères,...
On 13 – 15 March 2019 Grenada has become the first country to use a newly developed web-based version of the StaTact tool during a national workshop organized by UNITAR and UN Statistics Division (UNSD) together with the Central Statistical Office of Grenada (CSO). As a result of the workshop, 6 twelve-month action plans have been developed to address a bottleneck or kickstart a process in such diverse areas as as agricultural statistics, gender-based violence and child abuse, epidemiology surveillance system, education, disaster-related data collection system and environme...
9 February 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - A category 5 Tropical Cyclone struck the Philippines in December 2021, causing significant damage and affecting a large part of the population. Following a request from the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (in Bangkok), of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UNOSAT’s Emergency Mapping service was activated to support the planning and coordination of emergency response operations with satellite imagery analysis., On the 16th of December 2021, Tropical Cyclone RAI-21 made landfall north ...
30 January 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the “Digital Champions” forum on 20-21 February 2024 in Warsaw as the final session of the digital reskilling training programme for Ukrainian women evacuees in Poland. More than 40 top-performing programme participants will be invited to join the forum, where they will discuss and present data analytics, cybersecurity, geographic information systems, or digital graphics and web design.
The forum will also provide several businesses the opportunity to introduce their companies to t...
Innovative capacity development approach combines technology, mapping and academic knowledge in Chad
Since earlier in 2012 UNITAR/UNOSAT and the Swiss Development Cooperation are engaged in implementing a water management and capacity development project in Chad. This project, also known with its francophone name of “ResEAU”, has the ambitious aim of strengthening national capacity in the area of water resources by using mapping combined with capacity development techniques tailored to the local requirements and designed together with Swiss and Chadian partners.
In Switzerland, UNOSAT experts work together with the Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics at…
Disussions of Creating New CIFAL Centre in Newcastle, Australia
16 July 2015, Newcastle, Australia – On the occasion of the 5th Newcastle International Conference on Building Resilience, local authorities from Asia-Pacific countries and local authorities from Australia attended a session about the work of UNITAR on urban resilience. The session also provided an opportunity to introduce UNITAR and the CIFAL Global Network. In particular, the speakers explained the role of local authorities in building resiliency in cities and municipalities and outlined how…
2 March 2023, Cascais, Portugal - UNITAR and Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) join forces to establish the first International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Cascais, Portugal. The partnership with Nova SBE recognizes its work on applied research and commitment to developing new approaches that will help meet society’s most urgent challenges by providing innovative training and facilitating the exchange of knowledge amongst government officials, the private sector, and civil society.
UNITAR’s network of affiliated “CIFAL” cent...
“We launched the Clean Energy Challenge, which sets the ambitious target that all refugee settlements –and nearby host communities – will have access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030.” - Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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On 4 November, UNITAR, representing the Global Migration Group (GMG), the inter-agency group of 12 UN agencies, the IOM and World Bank, shared its vision for how the UN and its partners can support migrants and governments in the face of the current economic crisis.
Dr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR and current Chair of the GMG, addressed Ministers and heads of delegation at the third Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMDIII) in Athens on 4 November. He emphasized the GMG's willingness to support governments in ensuring…