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Youth Climate Dialogues (YCDs) Go Beyond Swiss Borders
9 November 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - Following is one of the many personal experiences one student from Lycee International de Ferney-Voltaire shared during the last Youth Climate Dialogue (YCD).
“As a kid, every autumn I used to visit my grandmother and we would collect many apples from her apple tree. For days I would eat apples for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She always used to say, ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. It’s been 5 years since the last apple was seen on that tree.”
On the 19th…
Susan Wanjiru is a Kenyan entrepreneur who is passionate about raising and empowering all women.
Susan joined the 2022 UNITAR Online Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme for Women and Girls in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region.
The online entrepreneurial training provided Susan with the tools to be financially disciplined and the steps to plan, manage and assess risk.
The UNITAR training programme is run in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat and the United Nations Develop...
Pacific Island nationals are invited to apply for the “Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response to Climate Crises through Early Warning Systems” training programme.The programme will teach individuals how to effectively disseminate, monitor, analyse and respond to early warning systems for climate-related hazards and extreme weather events.The programme will be in English and will run in two phases from July to November 2024. The first phase will be online, and the top performers will be invited to join the second phase in Japan.UNITAR certificates of completion will be issued t...
St. Gallen Students Visited UNITAR to Learn about the New Agenda for Sustainable Development
Following to the 1st Youth Climate Dialogues with the Lilongwe Girls Secondary School (Malawi) held in November 2015, the students from St. Gallen (Switzerland) visited UNITAR to learn more about climate change and sustainable development.
8 February, Geneva, Switzerland - The school visit of the St.Gallen Kantonsschule am Burggraben (Switzerland) to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) featured a presentation of UNITAR’s history and role…
Ayesha is an Afghan entrepreneur, who designs and exports jewellery inspired by Afghan women, nature and materials.Ayesha started designing jewellery in 2022 after her university studies were interrupted.Ayesha took part in the UNITAR Great Ideas Space entrepreneurship training programme for Afghanistan in 2023.The UNITAR programme helped Ayesha gain the knowledge and skills she needed to be an entrepreneur and built her confidence as a businesswoman., 28 August 2024, Hiroshima, Japan - When the de facto government in Afghanistan placed new restrictions on women’s free...
22-23 June 2011, Reims, France. Through a partnership with the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, UNITAR is supporting the creation of a Focal Point on Sustainability Studies which is to be established following The First “Rencontres internationales de Reims” conference on Sustainability Studies. Linking economy, society and environment around a paradigm that favours all these aspects equally and sustainably will be the centre point of discussions bringing eminent professors, thinkers and practitioners from different continents and from the North and South.
To combine…
NAP-GSP Launches a New Publication on “Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning”
4 April 2015, Bonn, Germany - UNITAR together with joint UNDP-UNEP National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Support Programme held a parallel session at the NAP Expo 2015 entitled Building National Capacities for the NAP Process.
The side event was conducted in French and English and focused on the launch of a NAP-GSP knowledge product entitled “Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning – How Countries Can Identify the Gap” developed by UNITAR in collaboration with the…
Ambassador Mathu Joyini is Permanent Representative of South African to the United Nations in New York and Chair for the Commission on the Status of Women (2021 to 2023). Previously, Ambassador Joyini served as Deputy Director-General at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, heading the Diplomatic Academy and the Mediation Support Unit (since 2016). She has undertaken various international assignments, including as Permanent Representative of South Africa to the International Seabed Authority (2010 to 2015) and as High Commissioner and Ambassador to…
CEO of London-based Global Education Holdings Ltd (GEDU)Dr Rana completed an MBA from Ohio University and gained an MSc and PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr Rana has executed a number of complex cross-border equity/debt-structured investments and finance transactions in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Hong Kong while working at HSBC’s New York office. He enjoys evaluating different global education models and applying them to unlock the potential of students in accessing education. He has also written a textbook, Dr Rana on Applied Corporate…
UNITAR and Anheuser-Busch InBev Sign Partnership Agreement to Collaborate on Road Safety
14 February 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - Today, Mr. Carlos Brito, Chief Executive Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) and Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), signed a partnership agreement to collaborate to improve road safety. This public-private partnership aims to significantly tackle road safety and, ultimately, save lives.
Road traffic…