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Title: Auxiliary Police Officer
Country: Canada
Course: Management Practices for Safer Roads: Toolkit
In 2002, the town of Drachten, in the Netherlands, removed nearly all traffic lights and road marks in the name of road safety. The aim was to reduce accidents and improve the town’s quality. The paradoxical experiment worked, and despite increases in traffic volumes, accident numbers fell from 8.3 per year between 1994 and 2002 to an average of just one per year in 2005.
If traffic signs are supposed to make traffic flow safer, how did the experiment work? The answer lie...
A medical student in Cameroon, Marie-Claire Tohnain, joined the 2021 Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Programme.
Marie-Claire finds having a DRR mindset relevant to her study in medicine.
She is also affected by the crises in public health and armed conflict in the Northwestern region in Cameroon.
UNITAR Division for Prosperity runs the DRR training programme which is grounded on the Sendai Framework and its goals for an “all-of-society” inclusive approach.
, October 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – What happens when disasters strike ...
2 October 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – Last week, UNOSAT delivered the Advanced Training on Earth Observation (EO) and Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) for Climate Resilience in Fiji and Vanuatu. This week-long training was delivered as part of the capacity development activities of the CommonSensing project* that aims to improve climate resilience in the Pacific small island states. Adjusting to the COVID-19 preventive measurements in partner countries, UNOSAT adopted a blended-type of delivery method., The Advanced Training on EO and GIT for Climate Resil...
6 April 2021, Bangkok, Thailand – UNOSAT delivered an advanced training on the Operational Application of Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands using blended learning formats to ensure maximum engagement of participants despite the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic. This training was offered as part of the capacity development activities of the CommonSensing* project that aims to improve climate resilience in the Pacific small island states.
The GIT4DRR course was designed to respond to the proje...
Name: Sopheap Sok
Organization: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in Cambodia
Functional Title: Chief Officer of the Agricultural Information and Documentation Center
Country: Cambodia
Course participated in: Cambodia Drought Training
Sopheap Sok is the Chief Officer of the Agricultural Information and Documentation Center at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in Cambodia. He took a course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
When Sop...
Aid&Trade London is the platform that brings together all major stakeholders of the global aid and international development sector. Now into its third year, it is a premium two-day event that encompasses innovative conferences, workshops, and exhibitor stands and brings together thousands of visitors. The World Humanitarian Forum is being launched in 2019 in conjunction with Aid&Trade as an international knowledge exchange platform at the intersection of government, aid, development, future and innovation. Both events are conceived as an opportunity for governments...
11 April 2022 - Policymakers and Data producers tend to work in silos, disconnected from one another, preventing them to benefit from the synergies and benefits collaborative efforts would bring, especially to advance the SDGs and ensure No One is Left Behind.
To address this disconnect, UNESCAP, PARIS21 and UNITAR respectively developed EPIC, ADAPT and StaTact, three free-standing and complementary data-planning tools intervening at different stages of the data production process and concerned with multi-stakeholder collaboration.
This session of the Asia-Pacific Stats...
UNITAR and HP Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly implement an initiative focused on digital inclusion, youth employability, and women’s empowerment through technology and innovation.The collaboration will centre on leveraging HP’s award-winning Gaming Garage and UNITAR’s learning and capacity-building expertise to co-develop cutting-edge digital education programmes.Pilot projects under the partnership are expected to launch in late 2025, beginning in select countries with plans for regional and global scale-up., 14 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland...
Learning with Leaders Podcast UNITAR’s CIFAL Global Network, through its Division for People, is proud to present Learning with Leaders—a podcast series that explores the stories and experiences of leaders from across the international field.Designed to inspire, the series explores topics related to the guests' areas of expertise while uncovering the person behind the leader. Featuring international guests from UNITAR’s management team, representatives of international organizations, and advocates for the SDGs and sustainability, the podcast provides diverse insights a...
ケニア出身のLilian Oliviaさんは、ジェンダーとテクノロジー専門の弁護士であり、ジェンダーに基づくオンライン上の暴力を防止する非営利団体の創設者です。彼女の活動は、自身が受けたオンラインハラスメントという個人的な経験が影響しており、若い女性や少女たちを支援する道を選ぶきっかけとなりました。国連ユニタール「アフリカの女性と若者のためのエッセンシャル・デジタルスキル開発:デジタル経済における雇用機会と生活向上の促進」研修事業を通じて習得したプロジェクト管理、サイバーセキュリティ、マインドフルネスといった重要なスキルは、彼女が活動の規模を拡大させるのに役立ちました。彼女は今後、アフリカ全土のより多くの地域に活動の場を広げ、オンライン上の暴力への対応を強化するための政策変更にもはたらきかけたいと考えています。, 2025年2月25日、広島、日本 – ナイロビ出身のジェンダーとテクノロジー専門の弁護士であるLilian Oliviaさんは、女性と女児にとってより安全なデジタル空間をつくる活動に取り組んでいます。現在、イギリスで法律、イノベーション、テクノロジーの修士課程を履修中のLilianさんは、オンラインハラスメントやネットいじめ撲滅に対する意識向上と解決策を提供するための非営利団体をケニアに設立し、活動しています。Lilian...