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Share Your Stories and Test Your Climate IQ – Follow UN CC:Learn on the Social Media!
Do you follow UN CC:Learn on the social media? If you don’t, you’re missing out!
05 October 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn invites you to test your climate IQ, share your climate change learning successes and stories by using three new hashtags on social media: #ClimateIQ, #ThinkClimate and #CCLearnAlumni.
#ClimateIQ – take a quiz and test your knowledge on climate change!
#ClimateIQ is a weekly quiz shared on Twitter where you can test your knowledge on various…
March 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR’s mission is focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to “transform our world.” In that regard, UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme Unit (MPDU) is proud to announce the launch of three new degrees. As a result, the MDPU launches the Master of Arts in Development Studies and Diplomacy and the Online Certificate in Development Studies and Diplomacy, in partnership with the University for Peace (UPEACE) and the Executive Diploma in Business Leadership and International Affairs, in partnership with t...
The Global Platform for Action (GPA) on Sustainable Energy in Displacement Settings is the global initiative to promote actions that enable sustainable energy access in displacement settings, as laid out in the Global Plan of Action Framework.
The GPA strives to remove barriers to energy access in humanitarian settings by providing a collaborative agenda for energy, development, and humanitarian partners to deliver concrete actions of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) in displacement contexts. It promotes and contributes to the humanitarian sector's transition to ren...
27 April 2023, Katowice, Poland – Between April 20 to 26, 2023, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Plock continued its efforts to promote the Autosobriety Training Programme, aimed at preventing drink-driving. The Programme was featured at the Local Career and Professional Development Fair capturing the attention of primarily young individuals who have just finished college and are looking for career advice.
During the four-hour event, around 80 people learned about the programme, using virtual reality glasses and video materials ...
The Pakistan Evidence and Learning Platform official website has been launched in English and Urdu
29 June 2018, Online – Knowledge management has a fundamental role to play in supporting and improving the humanitarian response in Pakistan. Users such as the national, provincial and local government authorities, donors and the international community, UN agencies, humanitarian partners and stakeholders, or a humanitarian practitioner, are looking for best practices, learning, innovations and impact of humanitarian support.
This is what PELP contributes, particularly in…
24 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR Road Safety Global Training Initiative and the International Road Federation (IRF) joined forces to deliver on the 18th of March of 2021 a Master Class on Management Practices for Safer Roads, in the framework of the International Road Federation regional conference on Connecting Asia-Pacific with Smart, Safe and Resilient Roads.
During this Master Class, 180 senior government authorities from Ministries of Roads and Public Works, as well as representatives from the private sector were introduced by UNITAR to the “Management Pra...
Register now! PAGE e-Learning Course on Green Fiscal Reform
2 August 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – Many governments face the triple challenge of reducing environmental risks, while fostering economic growth and reducing poverty. Green fiscal reform (GFR) as a policy approach can improve fiscal consolidation, spur innovation, and help identify smarter ways for government taxation and spending. By setting appropriate economic incentives and price signals green fiscal policies can help shift consumption patterns and drive private investments in human, natural, social and…
UNITAR and CIFAL Curitiba Promoting Action on Road Safety Policy
1-2 August 2017, Curitiba, Brazil - With the objective of contributing towards halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) with the support of Diageo hosted the international capacity building workshop “Strengthening Road Safety in Latin America”.
The workshop took place in Curitiba, Brazil during the 1st and 2nd of August, bringing together over 100 representatives from governments, the private…
Sven Harten is Head of the Competence Centre for Evaluation Methodology / Deputy Director at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). He is an evaluation expert and Political Scientist, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science an evaluation expert with more than 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation. Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M…
CIFAL Quito Organizes Training for Provincial Government Officials from Ecuador
19 June 2017, Quito, Ecuador – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Quito (CIFAL Quito) organized a training workshop aimed at strengthening the capacities of government officials from the 24 Provinces in Ecuador to "localize" the 2030 Agenda and assess how each province is contributing to the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The workshop “Implementing the SDGs” took place in Quito, bringing together Prefects from Ecuador to review existing…