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20 May 2019, San Jose Costa Rica - UNITAR New York Office traveled to Costa Rica on the 20th-21st of May to implement a course on developing leadership and strengthening negotiation techniques to the diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica. The course was held at the Diplomatic Academy Manuel Maria de Peralta of San Jose. During the welcoming remarks, the Director of the Academy, Ambassador Mr. Jorge Sanz, the Director of the Centro American Institute for Public Administration, Mr. Alexander Lopez and Mr. Pelayo Alvarez, Programme Coordinator and rep...
UNOSAT is increasingly active in both crowdsourcing and geo-tagging. To expand its experience in the latter, UNOSAT is working in partnership with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre to test an experimental geo-tagging system called Gloe, developed by HP Labs, a sponsor of the CCC project. The intention is to verify the usability of Gloe in support of development work and humanitarian aid in the field. UNOSAT and the CCC partners are hoping to determine which applications are more suitable to collaborative mapping and crowdsourcing for thematic mapping, especially in Africa.…
The Climate Change Act places new responsibilities on Scotland’s 32 local authorities and their public sector partners. Acknowledged as being the most ambitious in the world, these targets set Scotland apart and provide a benchmark for developed countries to follow.
An international seminar in Dunfermline on 10 September, which attracted representatives from 18 local authorities and environmental agencies including SEPA, Met Office and Scottish Natural Heritage, profiled the leadership actions by local authorities on climate change mitigation and…
How can institutions and the “rules of the game” be strengthened to effectively address climate change and advance a green economy? This question was at the centre of debate during the 2nd UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance & Democracy, New Haven, USA 17-19 September 2010. The Conference brought together some 160 academics, governance practitioners and civil society representatives from more than 20 developed and developing countries to explore opportunities of strengthening policy-relevant research on effective governance to address climate change and…
UNITAR Delivers Workshop on the Drafting, Structure, and Adoption of United Nations Resolutions to the New York Diplomatic Community
21 June 2016, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office organized a two-day event, “Workshop on the Structure, Drafting, and Adoption of the United nations Resolutions” on 20-21 June 2016 at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN. The Workshop was attended by approximately 30 delegates from Permanent Missions to the UN. Mr. Marco A…
Workshop on Drating Resolutions
19-20 June 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) New York Office organized a two-day event, “Workshop on the Structure, Drafting, and Adoption of the United Nations Resolutions” on 19-20 June 2018 in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Sweden programme “levelling the playing field” to the United Nations. The workshop was attended by approximately 30 delegates from Permanent Missions to the UN. Mr. Marco A. Suazo,…
In October 2016, UNITAR delivered a training to employees of the Government of Madagascar to support them in efficiently managing the country’s public finances. The training programme took place in Antananarivo over two-week period and included three main themes: negotiation techniques, follow-up and evaluation of public investment projects and internal debt management.
Rova Rakotondratsimba was one of the managers who took part in the training. “I work at the General Directorate of the Treasury, at the Directorate of …
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…
Education and Training as a Pathway to an Inclusive Green Economy: Tackling the Green Skills Mismatch
An innovation campaign in the lead-up to the PAGE Ministerial Conference 27-28 March 2017, Berlin, Germany
Call for Pitches!
14 February 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – The Second Ministerial Conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), co-hosted by the Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) of Germany, will organize an innovation session to highlight the importance of education and training for an inclusive…
UNITAR Opens Sustainable Development Goals Learning Centre
7 of June 2017, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) co-organized the second edition of this learning, training and practice week on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mr. Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR opened this week of learning session’s hand-in-hand with the presentation of voluntary national reviews. Mr. Seth remarked how UNITAR and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) are committed to ensuring that a broad range of…