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The Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons is a programme of the United Nations Office for Disarmament that seeks to empower young leaders to advocate for a nuclear-weapon-free world. The programme Youth Peace advocates the unique opportunity to learn about nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control principles via online courses and a fully funded in-person study tour to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. UNITAR supports the Youth Leader Fund as an implementing partner and organized the study tour to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We must prioritize dia...
8 November 2024, Vientiane, Lao PDR - The year 2024 was declared by the Secretary-General to be the year of building trust and hope. In his report Our Common Agenda the Secretary-General observedIncreasingly, people are turning their backs on the values of trust and solidarity in one another – the very values we need to rebuild our world and secure a better, more sustainable future for our people and our planet.ASEAN and the greater Asia and the Pacific region made a conscious shift to move from a deficit of trust to building strategic trust. ASEAN’s confidence and tru...
18 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland. The world is facing radical economic transformations driven, on the one hand, by opportunities offered by green and digital technologies and, on the other, by significant demographic changes, decreasing natural resource availabilities, increasing pressures from societies turning towards more responsible consumption patterns, and regulations to promote ESG compliance or encourage SDG reporting, and to pro-actively manage digital transformations. As such, one of the key needs becomes the upskilling and reskilling of government agencies, a...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) launched its joint e-Learning course on “Trade, Food Security and Nutrition” in July 2017. The course was attended by 65 representatives from government and related authorities directly involved in the formulation and implementation of agricultural policies and programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa. The Planning, Performance Monitoring, and Evaluation Unit of UNITAR wrote this story, 15 months after the completion of the course, to determ...
BAN KI-MOON, United Nations Secretary-General
Are the MDGS doomed to fail?
UN Secretary-General addressed the Geneva public at the Palais des Naitons on 29 April 2008:
"I can see many challenges ahead for myself and the United Nations to make this world a peaceful place. But this is not only me. I am only one of you. Without your support, my mission cannot be achieved".
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 | 4:00 p.m.
Palais des Nations; Assembly Hall
To watch the video archive of the lecture, please click here.
To read Ban Ki-moon's speech, please click here
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9 February 2023, Geneva, Switzerland / Hiroshima, Japan - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will host a virtual conference “FinTech Ecosystem: Leveraging its impact in the economy and climate change”.
The virtual conference will take place on 20 March 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Geneva time (CET; UTC+1), and will focus on three thematic areas: FinTech in Development Practice, FinTech and Cybersecurity, and FinTech and Ecology.
The panellists will explore how to improve development practice and policy in these three thematic areas so that soci...
Massive Open Online Course
This self-paced course has been developed by UNITAR and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A number of countries have attempted to better link their budgeting with the SDGs and national planning overall, however, the progress is uneven. As underscored in the recent UNDP guidance, any country regardless of its budgeting system can take a number of steps that can help align the allocation of public resources with the national SDG priorities. This set of measures has however to be adapted to the specific situation of the country....
Building Capacity in LDCs for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
1 - 2 March 2017, Abuja, Nigeria - In the framework of its initiative “Capacity for the 2030 Agenda”, UNITAR organized a learning conferences on “holistic approaches for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda” for African Least Development Countries (LDCs). This conference specifically targeted government officials from the 17 English-speaking African LDCs and took place in Abuja, Nigeria on 1 - 2 March 2017.
Giving us the best chance to achieve the SDGs
In September 2015, UN Member States adopted a…
Better Together
Mongolian universities join forces to prepare students for a green economy
15 June 2017, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Higher education is a competitive market. Universities find themselves in a race for staff, students, and research funds. While healthy to a certain extent, the American University Innovation Alliance warns that competition can “impede institutions' ability to achieve collective impact, diffuse innovation, and drive needed changes in higher education”. How does this play out in a country like Mongolia, where 16 public and 80 private higher…
3rd Youth Climate Dialogues between Uganda and Lugano Students
Amidst high-level climate talks in Paris, Swiss students and students from Sub-Saharan Africa, share their climate change experiences via Skype
22 December 2015, Lugano, Switzerland - While the COP 21 negotiations are in full swing, the third event of the Youth Climate Dialogues initiative took place in Lugano, Switzerland. The event featured an online discussion on climate change between the Swiss and Ugandan schools.
This initiative has been jointly initiated by the Swiss Agency for Development…