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UNITAR Launches Course for New Delegates on the Fifth Committee
5 September 2017 New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Research and Training (UNITAR) organized a training course with the sponsorship of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations,entitled “Orientation Course for New Delegates on the 5th Committee”. The course is comprised of several sessions across four days and introduces delegates to the work, rules, and procedures of the 5th Committee and the United Nations budget system. The course opened with welcome remarks delivered by His…
Twenty-Five South Sudanese Professionals Complete Workshop on Project Proposal Development and Social Entrepreneurship
18 October 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – After five days of focused learning in Hiroshima, Japan, Workshop III of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) South Sudan Fellowship Programme came to a successful conclusion. The 20 Fellows, supported by five Coaches, gained practical skills on how to develop an effective project proposal, incorporating a need or problem derived from the findings of individual needs assessments undertaken in…
QCPR Module 2- Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review
29 April 2016, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office partnered with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) for the “Second Module of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review” on 29 April 2016. The workshop was attended by approximately 50 delegates from several Permanent Missions in New York.
Mr. Marco A. Suazo, Senior Advisor and Acting Head of the UNITAR…
UNITAR Partners with Columbia University for course on Negotiation Fundamentals
3 November 2016, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, in partnership with Columbia Law School and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, initiated a series of courses entitled “Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Negotiation”. The first course in the series, taking place on 3 November, 2016, was entitled, “Advanced Negotiation Fundamentals for Diplomatic Leaders”. The course was attended by 20 diplomats, predominantly from member…
国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局は新規プログラム「生活基盤の向上を目指して：ポーランド在住ウクライナ避難民女性のためのデジタルリスキリング研修」の開会式をワルシャワ市内で開催しました。
政府関係者、教育機関関係者、NGO、研修参加者の代表らが開会式に参加しました。
2023年10月から2024年3月まで実施される同研修プログラムには、ポーランド在住の約500名 のウクライナ避難民女性が参加する予定です。
ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局にとってウクライナ避難民を対象とした初の研修となります。
同プログラムは、日本国政府ならびに国民の皆様のご支援により提供されます。
, 2023年 10月 26日、広島 - 国連訓練調査研究所（UNITAR）持続可能な繁栄局は、2023 年 10月 16日、新規研修プログラム「生活基盤の向上を目指して：ポーランド在住ウクライナ避難民女性のためのデジタルリスキリング」の開会式をワルシャワ市内で開催しました。政府関係者、教育機関関係者、NGO、研修参加者の代表らが参加しました。, 開会式では、初めに隈元美穂子ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局長が、同プログラムの運営にあたりお力添えくださった来賓やパートナーの皆様に謝意を述べました。
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12 to 14 July 2011, Benin City, Nigeria. The Government of Edo State Nigeria and UNITAR organized a knowledge sharing workshop on climate change in the Niger Delta Region to enhance capacity and knowledge about the effects of climate change and promote actions to mitigate these effects. It is acknowledged that a lack of awareness among policy makers and other stakeholders on the issue of climate change oftentimes hinders the formation of important partnerships and synergies for action on climate change.
Forty representatives from the different state departments as…
Before she participated in her first UNITAR training, Ms. Syeda Bushra Binte Amin was working at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), a regional organization focused on disaster preparedness in Bangladesh.
Ms. Bushra was working on Multi-Hazard Risk and Vulnerability Assessments Project, which analyses the impacts of 8 hazards including flood, landslide, tsunami, cyclone, earthquake, and others. As a Geographical Information System (GIS) consultant at ADPC, her work was to perform analysis for risk assessments of 5 components - housing, livelihood,…
ASEAN Member States Representatives Visit UNOSAT Office
20 May 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – On Friday 13 May we had the pleasure to welcome 12 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member state Ambassadors and Representatives for an information session on how Governments can benefit from UNOSAT’s support. Einar Bjorgo – UNOSAT Manager – presented our different areas of work:
Satellite Imagery Analysis
Training and Capacity Development
Research and Innovation
For each of the topics above, Mr. Bjorgo shared different examples from our work in Southeast Asia…
The First Women in Standardization Expert Group Event in Partnership with ITU
30 October 2016, Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia – On 30 October 2016, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Women’s Leadership Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosted the first Women in Standardization Expert Group (WISE) Event entitled: “Setting the Standard for Equality” during ITU’s World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2016.
The event took place in Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia and gathered more than 70 Delegates and…
3-Day Workshop to Change Perceptions of Disability
2-4 March 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – In November 2015, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, with the support of the Inter-Agency Support Group for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (IASG), launched the e-learning course “The Human Rights-based Approach to Disability”. This 5-weeks online course aims to introduce the human rights-based approach to disability and to learn how to apply it, as well as to understand core aspects of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with…