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23 October 2020, Bonn, Germany - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is now the 24th and newest member of the UN family in Bonn. UNITAR, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, opens its third out-posted office in the UN City in Germany, following the offices in the United States (New York) and Japan (Hiroshima). The Institute has several project offices and affiliated training centres around the world.
The Bonn office will provide a full range of services spanning its work across all pillars of Agenda 2030, together with flagship programmes on mu...
Over the past several years there has been an increase in the number of joint master’s degree and other postgraduate diploma initiatives designed and implemented by UNITAR in collaboration with universities and other academic institutions. From 2018 to 2022, UNITAR implemented 31 joint programmes through six of its programme units and the CIFAL Global Network of affiliated training centres.
This evaluation assessed the joint master’s degrees and postgraduate programmes conducted by UNITAR in collaboration with academic partners. It examined the relevance, coherence, effec...
Mercury is a silvery-white metal that is liquid at room temperature and evaporates easily into the air. Many Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Miners (ASGM) around the world use mercury to extract the gold from the earth using its low heating point to evaporate from the gold compile.
Mercury exposure causes severe negative effects to both human health and the environment. ASGM continues to be a major issue of concern globally due to the activities and disposal of products that are contaminated with mercury.
While the world will never be entirely “mercury free” simply because it ...
September 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Stronger cyclones, derailed seasonal floods, large forest fires, rising sea levels…, the climate crisis affects every part of human life and development. It is the most pressing issue to protect vulnerable populations and ensure a safe and sustainable future for all.
Geo-spatial Information Technology (GIT), including satellite imagery analysis and data visualization, can help increase climate resilience as it plays a vital role in understanding the geographic extent and severity of such hazards. The ability of national and ...
Country: The Gambia
Partnership: Scaling-up the national response to non-communicable diseases to achieve the sustainable development goal 3.4; reducing by one third pre-mature mortality from NCDs by 2030
The Gambia is Africa’s smallest non-island country and one of its most densely populated. The Smiling Coast, as it is also known due to its location on the map cutting through the middle of Senegal in a position that appears like that of a smile, has a significant young population – about two-thirds is under age 30. Yet roughly 37 per cent of its people died in 2019 from ...
27-28 October 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office concluded its training course on “Strengthening Skills and Knowledge in Multilateral Diplomacy: Practical Preparation for Membership in the United Nations Security Council” for Republic of Indonesia with a two-day-session on the meeting formats, decisions-making process, voting procedures, documents and insights into the Security Council Presidency. The training, which is part of the Swedish programme “Leveling the playing field”, was conducted from 27-28 Octo...
1 February 2019, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) office in New York launched and welcomed the first class of its inaugural UNITAR Global Diplomacy Initiative (UGDI), a programme dedicated to providing a unique, intimate training experience to students in higher education while utilizing the connections and experience of UN delegates and academics.
In hopes of ensuring a brighter future through diplomacy, the newly-designed UNITAR Global Diplomacy Initiative allows students to experience international relations and contemporar...
11 April 2022 - Policymakers and Data producers tend to work in silos, disconnected from one another, preventing them to benefit from the synergies and benefits collaborative efforts would bring, especially to advance the SDGs and ensure No One is Left Behind.
To address this disconnect, UNESCAP, PARIS21 and UNITAR respectively developed EPIC, ADAPT and StaTact, three free-standing and complementary data-planning tools intervening at different stages of the data production process and concerned with multi-stakeholder collaboration.
This session of the Asia-Pacific Stats...
Humankind is indisputably entering a new digital era. The impact of rapid technological and scientific advances on our lives is so great that World Economic Forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, termed this process as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are the witnesses of the transcendence through new frontiers. These new frontiers go beyond traditional understandings of every aspect of human activity. Unlike in the past, diplomacy and international affairs can no longer afford to slowly adapt to those changes as their pace demands almost business-like agility to stay abreast a...
, CLICK HERE TO SHARE YOUR INTEREST!, This project takes a multidisciplinary approach that emerges as essential to help better understand the complex dynamics of the global economy, diplomacy, the evolving geopolitical landscape, and their association. This comprehensive framework addresses the multifaceted impacts of globalization, diplomati...