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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…
30 Argentinean Officials Graduate from 2016 IEFPA - UNITAR Programme for Trainers in Transnational Fiscal Transparency
24 October 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - The Public Finance Institute of Argentina (IEFPA) and UNITAR successfully concluded the 2016 Programme for Trainers in Transnational Fiscal Transparency with a seminar held on 17 October 2016 in Geneva. On 18 October participants undertook a study visit to Bern where the Head of the International Financial Affairs Section at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) Mr. Alexander Renggli briefed the…
New Resource Guide for Advanced Learning on Climate Change and Cities
1 Novermber 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - As part of its advanced learning series UN CC:Learn launches a new Resource Guide for Advanced Learning on Climate Change and Cities, produced with technical advice from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
The learning resources presented in this Guide are drawn primarily from within the UN and partners to UN CC:Learn, designed to inform interested groups in learning more about climate change in urban areas. This material complements…
Lesotho Launches its National Adaptation Planning Process
19 October 2015, Maseru, Lesotho - “The NAP process will help to identify a NAP roadmap for Lesotho, facilitating the coordination of all the existing adaptation projects and initiatives, and the formulation of new concepts which will be further developed into bankable projects” said the Director of Energy at the Ministry of Energy and Meteorology, Mr. Thabang Phure, at the official opening of a two day technical training on National Adaptation Planning supported by the UNDP-UNEP National Adaptation Plan…
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…