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13 December 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - The “Introduction to Sustainable Finance Taxonomies” affiliated e-course is available in French and Spanish.
The course has been developed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and in cooperation with the Sustainable Banking and Finance Network (SBFN), and it helps policymakers set up and develop sustainable finance taxonomies
By answering important questions, such as “What qualifies as...
17 September 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Computing Center (UNICC) and the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) are partnering to promote a new mobile application for the WHO’s Surgical Safety Checklist, which is destined to facilitate its use among healthcare professionals. The dissemination of the mobile feature is enhanced through a video that aims of raising awareness of the Checklist’s importanc...
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…
The agreement was signed on November 18 in Curitiba, Brazil
Rodrigo da Rocha Loures, President of FIEP and Carlos Lopes, UNITAR's Executive Director
UNITAR’s Executive Director, Carlos Lopes, and Rodrigo da Rocha Loures, president of the
Federation of Industries of state of Paraná (FIEP ), signed on 18 November, a partnership agreement with the objective of boosting the activities and outreach of CIFAL Curitiba. CIFAL Curitiba, one among ten other affiliated centers of UNITAR, will be hosted by FIEP as from January 2010.
CIFAL Curitiba’s capacity development…
This self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been developed by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A number of countries have attempted to better link their budgeting with the SDGs and national planning overall, however, the progress is uneven. As underscored in the recent UNDP guidance, any country regardless of its budgeting system can take a number of steps that can help align the allocation of public resources with the national SDG priorities. This set of measures has to be a...
2021年8月16日・広島 – 国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局は、長年アフガニスタンの人々を研修プログラムなどを通じて支えてきました。私たちはアフガニスタンの人々とともにあります。人命の保護、そして必要とする人々への人道支援を求めます。
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私たちはアフガニスタン市民とともに歩んできました。特に女性や女子とともに、ジェンダーの平等やエンパワーメントに取り組んできました。学びにより能力開発を進める機会を今後も提供し続けます。
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国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局及び広島事務所は、20年近くに渡ってアフガニスタンの人々への研修事業を続けています。特に女性が学ぶ機会を支えてきました。私たちはアフガニスタンの人々とともにあります。人々の人権が確実に尊重されることを求めます。
現在持続可能な繁栄局で行われている研修事業や今後の計画についてのお問い合わせはこちら：hiroshima@unitar.org...
Keynote speakers of the 6th edition of the Geneva Lecture Series jointly organized by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and UNITAR, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy discussed the implications and lessons of the financial crisis for global economic growth and economic and financial governance models.The conference that took place at Palais des Nations in Geneva, on 8 December 2010 followed the usual format of the initiative - an interactive debate with journalists and the general public following the keynote addresses - and attracted 1700 people in attendance…
Linked via Light Project - A Contribution to the International Year of Light 2015
24 March 2015, Glasgow, Scotland - The Westburn Viaduct in Glasgow over the river Clyde is now permanently illuminated thanks to Linked Via Light, a project that has brought young people together from communities on both sides of the river and inspired them to collaborate to help transform their shared landmark. The project was implemented by CIFAL Scotland, in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Tollcross Housing Association.
Working in cross community teams, pupils from Bannerman,…
10 November 2011, New York, United States of America. On 4 November 2011, the New York Office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations held the second workshop of the series on United Nations Reform. This workshop focused on: “System-wide Coherence in United Nations Development Activities,” which aimed at familiarizing delegates and UN staff on system-wide coherence architecture, current initiatives to improve coherence mechanisms and main challenges for coherence and…
On the 12th and 13th of March 2020, the Environmental Affairs Department (EAD) of Malawi, in collaboration with UNDP Malawi and UN CC:Learn, launched the UN CC:Learn project and held the National Planning Workshop. The two-day event built on the experiences from the development and implementation of Malawi’s 2013 National Climate Change Learning strategy with an opportunity to learn from other partner countries and has further strengthened the partnership between Malawi and UN CC:Learn, which dates back to 2012.
The workshop contributed with new ...