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Close to 100 Participants from the South Trained on Social Media Tools for Development in 2015
13 November 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - Today the “Innovative Collaboration for Development” Fall 2015 session ended, closing this year's sessions of the e-Learning course. In 2015, close to 100 participants coming from 44 countries, of which 36 are developing and Least Developed Countries were trained on the use of social media in a development context.
Throughout the year, three nine-week long online sessions were carried out in English, and one in French.
The course “…
UNITAR Organizes Workshop on Realizing Post-2015 Aspirations for Migrants and Migration
16 - 17 October 2014, New York, U.S.A. - At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, UNITAR and the Global Migration Group (GMG) of which UNITAR is a member, organized a technical meeting on “realizing post-2015 aspirations for migrants and migration”. With the Final Report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its first reference for possible migration targets and indicators within the new development agenda after 2015 (replacing the…
UNOSAT has been invited to present its work on Piracy Monitoring at a meeting of the UN Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC) in October 2010. The use of satellite analysis to monitor the activity of pirates off the coasts of Somalia has been developed by UNOSAT as part of the activities of the Programme in the area of human security and monitoring.
Joshua Lyons of UNOSAT explained to representatives from UN agencies and various NGOs how UNOSAT has been monitoring the activity of pirates off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden combining open source data and…
With the aim of addressing the growing challenge of money laundering and financing of terrorism, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will conduct from 31 January to 25 March 2011 a new online course on Combating Money Laundering in partnership with Agence pour la Coopération et le Développement -Banques Populaires (ABPCD).
This course, which is entitled "Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism", was developped specifically to respond to the training needs of senior and middle level finance-sector professionals, with a special…
From 31 January to 1 February 2011, UNITAR’s Board of Trustees met in Geneva for its 50th regular session. Highlights of the session include the approval of the revision to the Institute’s 2010-2011 Programme Budget and taking note of progress in implementing the 2010-2012 Strategic Plan with the new business model and the mobilization of self-generated income very much at the centre of discussion. The Board also took note of the status of the Fellowship Fund which was newly created in line with the Strategic Plan to facilitate access to fee-based training services for…
Coming from Iraq, Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Liberia, to the Middle East, Central Asia, East Timor and Haiti, the heads of the United Nations Peace Operations around the world gathered in Switzerland 10 to 12 February 2011 for the annual Seminar for Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General organized by UNITAR in association with the UN System Staff College. The seminar provides a unique opportunity for Heads of Mission and Headquarters officials to exchange knowledge and experience to enhance UN…
With the aim of addressing the growing challenge of money laundering and financing of terrorism, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will conduct from October 3 to November 25, 2011 a new online course on Combating Money Laundering in partnership with Agence pour la Coopération et le Développement -Banques Populaires (ABPCD).
This course, which is entitled « Combating Money Laundering », was developped specifically to respond to the training needs of senior and middle level finance-sector professionals, with a special emphasis on private and…
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 (FAO) are developing the course Innovative Collaboration for Development, an e-learning course on social media tools.
The course focuses on capacitating development professionals to adequately use the potential of social media tools to enhance the efficiency of their work, increase the outreach of their organizations, and contribute to the improvement of the effectiveness of the development…
27-28 March 2013, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – Côte d’Ivoire held a Final Review Meeting for the project “Implications of ratification of the Basel Convention Ban Amendment for Côte d'Ivoire”, on 27-28 March 2013, with the participation of UNITAR and a representative of the Swiss Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire.
The objectives of the workshop were to raise awareness about the Basel Convention and the Basel Convention Ban Amendment (the amendment will prohibit exports of hazardous wastes covered by the Convention that are intended for final disposal, reuse, recycling and…
UNITAR announces its upcoming e-Learning courses entitled “Introduction to the UN System” and “Drafting and Adopting UN Resolutions”.
Introduction to the United Nations System (7 October - 17 November 2013)
This course aims to provide a historical, political, and analytical framework for liaising more effectively with UN representatives and staff. At the end of this e-Learning course, participants should be able to define the United Nations system’s structure and functioning, explain the UN's principal organs and their development, identify current and salient…