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In partnership with Indonesia Youth Diplomacy (IYD), the UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched the “EmpowerASEAN: Youth Leadership Programme in the ASEAN Region” training programme on 8-15 June 2024. Participants included 27 youth participants from the ASEAN region.The opening webinar was held on 8 June to introduce UNITAR and IYD and provide the participants with an overview of the programme.The hackathon session took place on 15 June, featuring a group discussion with given topics related to SDGs and final pitches. UNITAR announced the winning team, who will b...
11 May 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR will be offering a new training programme titled Gender Mainstreaming in Renewable Energy Trade. This offering is aimed at training policymakers with a better understanding of the gendered dimensions affecting the growth of the renewable energy sector and renewable energy trade.
Globally, the concepts of green growth and sustainability are gaining ground against a backdrop of climate change, natural disasters, and human-inflicted pressures on the Earth. One of the ways in which countries are attempting to mitigate the fallout...
11 May 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The past few years have seen an unprecedented growth in new technologies, products and related services which have revolutionized the global financial system. From mobile payments to pre-paid cards to digital banks, the financial sector has taken the customer experience to another level by providing personalized and user-friendly services. While these new technologies, products and related services have the potential to stimulate financial innovation and efficiency as well as to improve financial inclusion, they also present new risks for ...
4 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – In August 2024, the UNITAR Future Global Youth Leaders Programme brought around 20 high school students from across the world to UNITAR headquarters in Geneva, providing them with the knowledge, skills and experiences necessary to lead in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. This programme round was completed in partnership with IC Education, a Chinese educational enterprise.The programme was divided into two parts: an introductory online learning phase and an intensive, in-person experience in Geneva. Th...
Jacques Dembele, from Mali, is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at UNDP Guinea-Bissau.He participated in the Primary Course of the Program for Global Human Resource Development for Peacebuilding and Development, held in January and February 2025 both online and in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan.Jacques was motivated to join the course by his desire to learn about peacebuilding and development from Japan, a country he admires as a global advocate for peace.His time in Hiroshima and the course experience fuelled his commitment to continue contributing to peacebuilding and deve...
12 April 2024, Online - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in partnership with Technological University Dublin and Çağ Üniversitesi, launches its inaugural executive course: Sustainability Programme for Global Changemakers: Navigating the UN 2030 Agenda.
This collaboration is part of our commitment within the European University of Technology ELaRA-TESST team, emphasizing proactive learning and sustainable development.
This innovative course offers an immersive learning experience, leveraging Virtual Reality to revolutionize edu...
The development of individual, institutional and organizational capacities is a requirement to produce useful and rigorous evaluations to ensure accountability and learning in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Following the landmark General Assembly resolution 69/237 which calls for building national evaluation capacities, entities of the UN development system and beyond have been working to strengthen evaluation capacities in accordance with national policies and priorities. As a result, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UN...
Over the past several years (2016-2022) UNITAR’s outreach to learners has increased significantly, including participants in learning events containing an objective assessment of learning. However, the proportion of certificates of completion (CoC) issued to these learners has declined. In 2023, the UN Board of Auditors observed this trend and recommended UNITAR to undertake an evaluation to uncover any factors driving completion rates. This evaluation assessed the effectiveness of UNITAR's learning-related programming, focusing on factors driving learner completion an...
2022年12月23 日・広島 – 立命館アジア太平洋大学（APU）と国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は10月7日、連携協力に関する覚書を締結いたしました。起業やデジタル技術の分野などの能力開発事業での連携強化を目指しています。
新たな学びの機会をユニタールの研修生、APUの学生をはじめとする多くの方々にお届けできるよう、実践知を共有し、インターンシップを含めた人的相互交流の取組に向けて協働していきます。
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APUの大学院生を対象としたインターンシッププログラムなど
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立命館アジア太平洋大学（APU）学長 出口治明
世界の100以上の国・地域から学生が集まる「若者の国連」のような立命館アジア太平洋（APU）にとって、国連訓練調査研究所（UNITAR）と連携協力の覚書を締結できることは大変意義深いことであり、とてもうれしく思っています。
これまでも色々な協力をいただいていましたが、今後この協定を機会にさらに連携を強くし、世界の持続可能な発展と課題の解決に貢献できる人を共に育ててまいりたいと思います。
ユニタール総代表 ニキル・セス...
Training of Trainers Workshop in Kigali, RwandaIt was designed to increase the knowledge of experts on the problem of corruption and its link with sustainable development, while enhancing capabilities to design and deliver effective training programmes to properly transmit this expertise.Available in: English , Workshop: Hybrid format, in Doha and onlineThis three-day workshop aimed to strengthen knowledge of how corruption can trigger a domino effect on civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights because of their universal, indivisible, int...