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On 15 January 2025, UNITAR and the University of Wolverhampton signed an agreement to establish the Prosperity Alliance Wolverhampton, a joint sustainability research knowledge exchange centre aimed at fostering innovation.This partnership will develop joint degree programmes, host flagship conferences and advance applied research initiatives.UNITAR and the University of Wolverhampton aim to drive business and economic growth through innovation and research for individuals, businesses and communities, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals., 22 January 2025, Gene...
Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu was the first safety and protection cluster coordinator for Tonga. In 2018, she participated in the UNITAR Women’s Leadership on Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme.The UNITAR programme introduced Lavinia to disaster risk reduction principles and continues to be the foundation on which she builds her work in disaster management.UNITAR featured Lavinia's work in developing standards for Tonga and fostering the community-government relationship. She updates us on what she's been working on since then., 23 August 2024, Hir...
Lilian Olivia, a gender and technology lawyer from Kenya, is the founder of a non-profit dedicated to combating technology-facilitated gender-based violence.Her advocacy was inspired by personal experiences of online harassment, leading her to pursue supporting young women and girls.Through the UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme, Lilian gained valuable skills in project management, cybersecurity and mindfulness that have helped her scale her impact.She envisions expanding her initiative...
Greetings! This quarter, UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched programmes under its key pillars in social innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership and inclusion, digital futures, and finance and trade.
We have attended exhibitions featuring our programmes and alumni testimonies in the Pacific and Hiroshima. Thank you to all our learners, partners, and supporters for your commitment towards achieving our goals and making an impact in your communities., New Head of Hiroshima Office
On 8 November 2023, UNITAR Hiroshima Office welcomed Ms. Chisa Mikami as the new head of...
23 - 24 January 2019, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China – UNITAR, in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) successfully held the Learning Conference “Implementing the 2030 Agenda in the Asia-Pacific Region” in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on the 23rd and 24th of January 2019. The conference was attended by more than 95 participants, including government officials leading the...
3 March 2022, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR Division for Prosperity is launching a two-week course on Introduction to Digital Health and Digital Entrepreneurship in Sahel Region. The online training will be delivered in French from 14 March to 25 March 2022. Women, youth entrepreneurs and medical practitioners are invited to learn skills, gain knowledge, and develop attitudes to help them adapt to and participate in the digitizing world and excel in digital health and entrepreneurship. , La Division pour la prospérité de l'UNITAR lance un programme de formation en lig...
Hayder Maala, alumnus of the UNITAR Iraq Fellowship Programme, believes entrepreneurship training for young people will help Iraq’s development.
After attending a UNITAR training of trainers programme, Hayder started a youth development NGO and a startup incubator, and became a coach for UNITAR programmes.
He is now managing the digital/frontier technologies programme for UNITAR’s Division for Prosperity.
Applications are being accepted for the Leading Inclusive 4IR: Empowering Women in Iraq for the Future of Work through Digital Reskilling programme.
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Loretta Dilu, an academic and researcher in strategic management from Papua New Guinea, completed the 2024 UNITAR Leaders for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Sea and Human Security programme.Despite having little prior knowledge of the topic, Loretta was among the top performers who advanced to the final phase of the training programme, thanks to her dedication and exceptional performance.One of Loretta’s key takeaways from the training was the power of collective action. After the UNITAR programme, she initiated a lake restoration project that not only benefits the environme...
After a successful run of an initial online course on “Agriculture in International Trade Agreements” in 2019, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNITAR held a rerun of the course in November 2020. Similar to the initial course, the second online course also targeted professionals from the post-Soviet region, selecting participants from 12 countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The course sought to build the capacities of ...