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UNITAR Organizes Workshop on Public Diplomacy for Delegates from the KSA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
16 – 20 July 2018, Madrid, Spain – As a continuation of our long-standing collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), UNITAR delivered a five-day training workshop in Madrid on Public Diplomacy. The workshop was attended by 17 Saudi Arabian Diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The event took place as part of the numerous training workshops UNITAR will be delivering across 2018 for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The first two and a half days of the workshop focused on the theme of public diplomacy. The expert, Ms. Jasna ...
18 January 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - On Saturday 15th January, the ongoing volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
The UNOCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific swiftly contacted the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) to request the activation of its Emergency Mapping service over Tonga. UNOSAT analysts started right away collecting relevant data and triggered the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters to collect satellite images over the area.
The first analyses published show initial assessment of ...
“Youth-led Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia: A Transformational Approach” is a project designed by UNITAR with the generous support of the German Federal Foreign Office and in partnership with Ciudad Don Bosco (CDB). It aims to contribute to the ongoing peacebuilding and reconciliation process in Colombia by strengthening resilience and conflict prevention capacities of at-risk youth, families, marginalized communities and the broader society.
In the video at the bottom, the UNITAR team gives us an overview of the project and the justification for its implementation i...
16 October 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is kicking off its first ever bottom-up crowdfunding campaign, UNITAR Peace Funder, which enables selected professionals from all regions of the world to enhance their applicable knowledge and technical skills, further consolidating their ability to act as peacebuilders and changemakers. UNITAR Master’s programmes in Conflictology, Electoral Policy and Administration, Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding, and United Nations and the Art of Peace are tailored for profession...
After a successful run of an initial online course on “Agriculture in International Trade Agreements” in 2019, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNITAR held a rerun of the course in November 2020. Similar to the initial course, the second online course also targeted professionals from the post-Soviet region, selecting participants from 12 countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The course sought to build the capacities of ...
Two years ago when Sitra Abubaker founded her digital marketing start-up Social.ly in Ethiopia, she admits she had no educational background and no professional experience to run a business. So when a friend told her about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s online course empowering women as entrepreneurs, she leaped at the chance.
“If I had to pick one thing … it’s understanding customers … developing a value proposition that is meaningful and relevant,” she says. “Everything I learned from this course has been helpful to my start-up.”
With Social.ly, Sitra wants to bridg...
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and microlearning platform EdApp together launched “Educate All,” a global learning initiative designed to democratize and increase access to free, high-quality adult education, initiated in 2020.
Courses on this platform are designed for smartphones and free to the public. Lessons are accessible and downloadable worldwide, enabling participants to access them while offline. This initiative aims to provide quality adult education, and bridge the digital divide, providing courses that learners can access with ...
National ownership to monitor and achieve the SDGs is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda. However, many National Statistical Offices (NSO) face challenges in monitoring and reviewing the implementation of the SDGs. These challenges include the complexity of measuring certain problems and building relevant indicators, limited statistical capacity to monitor identified indicators, the lack of tools to facilitate the use of available information, and coordination difficulties experienced by stakeholders in producing, storing, and using the data, to name just a few.
The United Na...
The Board of Trustees is the Institute’s governing body. The Board formulates principles and policies to govern the Institute’s activities and operations, approves the work programme, adopts the budget, reviews the structure and composition of staffing and performs other statutory functions, including considering the methods of financing the Institute with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of its future operations and the Institute’s autonomous character within the framework of the United Nations., The Board meets in regular session at least once a year. Sessions are tra...
31 January 2023, Geneva, Switzerland- The Annual Geneva Interfaith Dialogue convenes a diverse panel of Ambassadors and other high-level representatives of the world’s major faiths, as well as the International Geneva community at large, to engage on the links between faith, politics, and society. The Dialogue is held on the premises of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) each year during World Interfaith Harmony Week. It serves as a platform not simply to commemorate UNGA Resolution 65/5, but as a vehicle to raise public awareness, renew the Resolution’s commitments...