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7 November 2012, Hiroshima, Japan | Singapore | Kabul, Afghanistan - The final Web-Seminar in the seven-month-long UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan programme took place recently, connecting Hiroshima, Singapore and Kabul. The 59 Fellows, 10 Coaches and 4 Afghan Resource Persons of the 2012 Cycle, joined by representatives of UNITAR and the Ministry of Finance of Afghanistan, gathered at the Ministry to receive a presentation delivered by Ms. Winifred Loh of Singapore.
Ms. Loh is a Mentor for the Programme and has been a Human Resources Director for over 25 years in multi-…
30 Young South Sudanese Professionals Join UNITAR Leadership and Entrepreneurship Workshop in Hiroshima
3 March, 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – 30 young South Sudanese professionals took part in a UNITAR workshop in Hiroshima last month, as a continuation of the UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme: Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training, a six-month specialized capacity-building training programme for select junior to mid-career level professionals. Focusing on project development and implementation, this year’s Fellowship trained 30 South Sudanese Fellows and…
23 July 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - The 2013 session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is being held in Geneva, where ECOSOC meets every other year. UNITAR took part in the Innovation Fair of the Annual Ministerial Review, which this year put a spotlight on the role of science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture in promoting sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Some examples of ground-breaking applications developed by UNOSAT and its partners were on display. Secretary-General Ban Ki-…
NAP-GSP Launches a New Publication on “Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning”
4 April 2015, Bonn, Germany - UNITAR together with joint UNDP-UNEP National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Support Programme held a parallel session at the NAP Expo 2015 entitled Building National Capacities for the NAP Process.
The side event was conducted in French and English and focused on the launch of a NAP-GSP knowledge product entitled “Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning – How Countries Can Identify the Gap” developed by UNITAR in collaboration with the…
UNITAR Office in New York Debuts Writing and Public Speaking Skills Course with UAE Mission
5 October 2016, New York, New York, USA – Mr. Marco A. Suazo, Director of UNITAR’s New York Office, gave the opening remarks for a new series of training courses in partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a brief introductory session held at the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the United Nations. The series is entitled, “Refining Communication Skills in a Context of Global Diplomacy: Writing Intensive Training Course in Classic Arabic and English, with a Special…
17 December, Geneva, Switzerland – A landmark report providing the first detailed account of the devastating damage to the World Heritage Property of the Ancient City of Aleppo in the wake of years of armed conflict has been published by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and UNESCO.
The Ancient City of Aleppo is one of six Syrian World Heritage sites added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger in 2013. Five Years of Conflict: The State of Cultural Heritage in the Ancient City of Aleppo draws on satellite imagery assessment of a total of...
The UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP), in partnership with the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT), is happy to announce the launch of the first ever e-learning course on security sector reform. This much awaited course combines the experience and knowledge of ISSAT and the interactive and online educational expertise of UNITAR. The course has been developed from ISSAT’s Level 1 Basic course on SSR, and is recognized by both organizations with UNITAR/ISSAT certification.
The importance of this e-learning programme cannot be…
From the 29th to 31th of March, Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR, visited the Republic of Korea for a series of meetings to enhance cooperation with Korean institutions.
He started with a meeting with KIGEPE (Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education) to discuss planned future collaborations. The gathering was co-hosted by Ms. Sookyoung Moon, KIGEPE President and Ms. Hyunjoo Song, KIGEPE Director. As a result of the meeting, the two institutions agreed to co-organize a biannual KIGEPE Symposium, beginning in September 2010, which will help…
UNITAR is preparing to launch its highly anticipated e-learning course on Climate Change Diplomacy which is due to start on the October 4th and will run for a duration of eight weeks. The course is set to provide high-level, diplomatic training for diplomats, negotiators and other high level officials prior to the climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, later this year.
Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Understanding the climate change problem is a work in progress for the scientific community, however the risks that it…
15 October to 14 December 2012, Social Media tools, e-learning course
In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development (ICfD), an e-learning course on social media tools.
The overall goal of the course is to empower development professionals to recognize the potential of social media and to make innovative use of these tools…