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Vannie Djounguep from Cameroon is a gender equality advocate, entrepreneur, and environmentalist. She founded an association to empower women in the informal sector and promote environmental sustainability, specifically biochar cocoa. Joining the Advancing Gender Equality and Women Empowerment 2023 Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme fueled her resilience and determination to overcome obstacles and achieve her entrepreneurial goals. Vannie aims to use her new knowledge to improve financial literacy among female entrepreneurs and introduce biocha...
I’m passing on what I have learned from UNITAR. Hopefully [the learners] will go and transfer this knowledge to other people and bring a positive change in their communities,” he says. “As an educator, I will pass on every tiny amount of information I have to make a positive impact on anyone’s life.
Khamis first came to Hiroshima in 2019 for a UNITAR training programme on entrepreneurship and leadership. Inspired by Hiroshima’s history, he now studies post-conflict transition at Hiroshima University.
Khamis volunteers as a coach for the UNITAR Building Bridges: Entrep...
Working towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires behavioural changes at various levels throughout global systems. Training and capacity-building are powerful ways that we can change behaviours, which is why it is important that learning design integrates behavioural science (BeSci) principles and knowledge.What is BeSci?As stated by the UN 2.0 initiative, nurturing behavioural science is about fostering our knowledge of how people act and make decisions – to create better choices and positive change that work with, not against, the grain of human nature.Behav...
November 2023, Port Vila, Vanuatu – The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) joined hands with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to extend the delivery of technical training in geospatial information technology at the subnational level in Vanuatu. These trainings had been designed for the PWD engineers, specifically focusing on the use of GIT and road network digitization in Vanuatu. The first training for Shefa was conducted in May 2023, followed by the training in Torba and Sanma in August. Trainings in Tafea and Penama provinces we...
October 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - In the last decade, technological advances have changed the world of law enforcement. As both criminal activities and police interaction with citizens move progressively online, the old model of providing a physical presence to prevent crime and reassure communities is no longer enough on its own and is expensive too. Police forces started to use digital technology to deliver a service that is fit for purpose in the 21st century.
New digital innovations have the potential to transform the way policing is delivered. The advent of always-c...
11 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Carlos Slim Helu, the guest speaker of the new edition of the UNOG-UNITAR landmark initiative Geneva Lecture Series, has shared his insights and discussed the impact of new technologies on the world of business and our lives, as well as their role in achieving the goal of universal access to knowledge and in creating equal opportunities for all.
Around 700 participants, mostly at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and some in UN headquarters in New York, have joined the Seventh Edition of the Geneva Lecture Series organized by UNOG...
The United Nations Plan of Action to safeguard religious sites is a framework for action containing concrete recommendations for all relevant stakeholders to better prepare, prevent and respond to attacks against religious sites.
One of the main recommendations of the Plan is the development of a mapping of religious sites around the world, which will capture the universality of religious sites and contribute to fostering respect and understanding of their significance for individuals and communities in every continent.
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)...
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 36 multilateral organizations working to build human capacities in developing and transition countries to plan and implement effective climate change actions. It aims to strengthen climate change (CC) learning globally, regionally and nationally.
A independent end of project evaluation was undertaken to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, impact, coherence and project management of the UN CC:Learn project’s fourth phase, drawing on experiences from previous phases. The evaluation seeks to identify what went well,...
We offer various online platforms that provide users with tools, resources and courses in respective thematic areas. Explore below our learning platforms., This webpage includes information on the Digital Government Academy, which is part of the UNCTAD - UNITAR Digital Government Capacity Development programme established to research, promote and build capacity in the field of digital government as a means to implementing the 2030 Agenda., The UN CC:Learn knowledge sharing platform is a ‘one-stop-shop’ to access learning materials, activities and services offered by U...
Everlyn Fiualakwa (Solomon Islands) took part in the 2019 UNITAR Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Programme. She is now back as a resource person.
Everlyn encourages communities to identify an evacuation site in which to store food supplies – an idea she got from the UNITAR course.
Women in the Solomon Islands are more vulnerable to disasters. Everlyn works to get more early warning signals out to women.
Everlyn also believes in planning. “Everyone can be prepared for disasters. They just need the tools.”
, Passion and prayers – that’s how Everlyn Fiualakwa of the...