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Following the request by the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region at its meeting held in Kingston, Jamaica, in March 2010 to meet in early 2011 to prepare for the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG), UNITAR in conjunction with the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)Secretariat held a regional meeting on SAICM and a UNITAR workshop on nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials in Panama City, Panama, from 30 May to 3 June 2011. The region recommended that the outcomes of the meeting be included in the report on…
1-3 June, 2011, Asaba, Delta State Nigeria. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Nigeria Office in collaboration with Delta State of Nigeria Government has recently organized a three-day training program on Participatory Budgeting and Revenue Generation in Asaba, Delta State. The workshop arose out of the need to include citizenry and stakeholder participation in effectively deciding what projects are priorities to their communities on one hand and the need to generate adequate funds to execute projects to promote sustainable development in the…
14 to 16 June 2011, Mahe, Seychelles. A National Forum on Governance and Priority Setting for SAICM Implementation was held in the Seychelles. The workshop was held under the framework of a national project for the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and consisted of a review of the progress made to date as well as an Action Plan Skills Building Workshop to prepare for the subsequent project activities.
The workshop was attended by some 25 representatives of government, international organizations, non-governmental…
30 June 2011, New York, USA. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)in New York organized the international workshop on “Migration Profiles (MP): Developing evidence-based Migration and Development Policies.” The other organizers were the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the MacArthur Foundation, all of which contribute to the 2011 Migration and Development Seminar Series. This workshop took place within the framework of the 2011 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), chaired…
1 September 2011, New York, USA. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York and the United Nations Democracy Fund are organizing a seminar on the Interdependence between Democracy and Development. The seminar will be held on Thursday 1 September 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
This seminar will explore the linkages or interdependence between democracy and development and seek to discern whether democracy is a necessary element for economic development. Democratic institutions which normally require…
28-30 June 2011, New York, USA. The UNITAR New York Office, jointly with the with the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and in cooperation with the Office of Legal Affairs organized a Workshop on the structure, retrieval and use of United Nations documentation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
According to the evaluation questionnaires, the workshop was a success and most of the respondents were completely satisfied. All the participants stated that they would recommend the workshop to a colleague.
The workshop consisted of two sessions:
The first…
18-22 July 2011, New York, USA. From 18 to 22 July 2011, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are organizing a Seminar on International Trade Law and Policy at the United Nations Headquarters. The seminar aims at enhancing the knowledge on trade-related issues of delegates of permanent missions to the United Nations in New York.
As part of this seminar, two panels will be enriching the debates. Indeed, the first panel is…
With the aim of addressing the growing challenge of money laundering and financing of terrorism, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will conduct from October 3 to November 25, 2011 a new online course on Combating Money Laundering in partnership with Agence pour la Coopération et le Développement -Banques Populaires (ABPCD).
This course, which is entitled « Combating Money Laundering », was developped specifically to respond to the training needs of senior and middle level finance-sector professionals, with a special emphasis on private and…
After years of successful collaboration, UNITAR/UNOSAT and Google have strengthened their collaboration by signing an agreement that will give the crisis response and humanitarian community increased access to Google Map Maker source data for use in their disaster response and humanitarian activities, in more than 150 countries around the world.*
In times of disaster and humanitarian relief, access to very high quality and up-to-date baseline data of critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, hospitals, etc. has always been essential to help humanitarian…