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Established in 2014, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Belgium (CIFAL Flanders) is hosted by the City of Antwerp. CIFAL Flanders is a centre of expertise on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering trainings, project development and coaching. CIFAL Flanders promotes peace, human rights and sustainable development and the declarations, principles and guidelines of the United Nations, with focus on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. CIFAL Flanders is devoted to strengthen a just transition towards a sustainable society and eco...
3 August 2025, Osaka, Japan - Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), visited the Expo 2025 Osaka and spoke at an event held at the United Nations (UN) pavilion. This marks her first visit to Japan since officially taking up the post at UNITAR in February this year. From 5 to 6 August, she is scheduled to visit Hiroshima, which will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, and participate in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony., On...
The work of UNOSAT is widely known across the UN and its members states and appreciated by scores of humanitarian experts and responders in particular. Although the satellite programme has launched its humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service in 2003, its capacity has been boosted in more recent years by the evolution of technology and the greater availability and resolution of commercial satellite imagery. Today UNOSAT has doubled its team members and its capacity to respond to more requests more rapidly. In over ten years of work and more than 300 crises, UNOSAT analysts can…
A launch event for the UNITAR Youth Ambassadors Asia Pacific Programme was held on 18 September 2021.
The event was co-organized with ITS Foundation and KIDsforSDGs.
Youth across Asia can work together to make a lasting impact on the planet. They can shift the way society sees social and environmental change.
Four panel discussions were moderated by high school students and featured partners Amundi, AstraZeneca, BNP Paribas, Cyberport and SAP.
, 18 September 2021 – Youth across Asia can work together to make a lasting impact on the planet by changing the way people ...
More than 1,000 participants from both the private and public sector from Africa and other parts of the world participated in the second Africa Carbon Forum that took place in Nairobi, Kenya in 2010, pointing to the immense interest for Clean Development Mechanism projects and the potential for carbon markets and trading in Africa.
UNITAR and the Nairobi Framework Partners are once again delighted to announce preparations for the Third Africa Carbon Forum that will take place 5 to 6 July 2011, in Marrakesh, Morocco, and expected to attend will be; CDM designated…
7-9 June 2011, Plock, Poland. Between 7 and 9 June 2011, Plock’s International Training Centre for Local Actors (CIFAL Plock) held a 1-day conference and 2-day workshop on Sustainable Management of Solid Waste. Hosted within the Municipality of Plock (Poland), the conference provided the opportunity to waste management practitioners from Poland and abroad to present case studies and discuss challenges that many municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe are confronted with nowadays. During the event gathering close to 120 participants, experts explored current…
16 August 2013, Khartoum, Sudan - After initial flooding that killed more than 50 people in the first week of August, Sudan’s weather authorities have announced that heavy rain falling in Ethiopia is likely to cause additional flooding in Sudan. So far the floods affected 200,000 Sudanese, according to the Minister of Interior, and have prompted aid from Qatar, Egypt and Ethiopia.
UNOSAT has been working in rapid mapping mode since the first flood episodes on 1 August. The result as in all these types of situations, are individual maps and analytical reports. One of these…
July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - The project ‘Map Your School’, a joint initiative between UNOSAT, UNICEF and the Panamanian Government has moved to the next stage in its development, as it begins a pilot test phase in the Escuela Puerto Rico, in Panama City, Panama. Initial feedback has been very good “The children understood very well how to use the platform, with no previous guidance on how to use it!“ exclaimed Heidi Peugeot, a Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist and the UNICEF focal point for the Map Your School project.
Map Your School is an online…
This forum aims to give diplomats a comprehensive knowledge of the complexities of sustainable development issues and provide them with the necessary tools to participate in the negotiation process. This opening workshop addressed the main themes of the Rio+20 Conference: the institutional framework for sustainable development and a green economy.
Ambassador Maria Teresa Mesquita Pessôa, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations, opened the workshop and shared the host country’s vision for sustainable development and green economy.…
CIFAL Curitiba Launched the III Cycle of Studies on the SDGs for Municipalities in Brazil
18 April 2017, Curitiba, Brazil – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Curitiba, Brazil, in partnership with the Social Service for Industry (SESI) in Parana, the Information Company of Parana (Celepar) and the Brazilian Business School ISAE launched its III Cycle of Studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The inaugural workshop took place on 19 April in the City of Curitiba, bringing together 80 participants from the public and…