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12-13 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop on “Regional Integration: Key Negotiation Challenges Moving Forward”, which was directed by Dr. El Hadji A. Diouf (Executive Director, African Agency for Trade and Development) and Dr. Christian Häberli (Senior Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland) had 23 participants from 16 Sub-Saharan African countries. Senior trade experts from UNDP, South Centre and World Trade Organization also made presentations on specific issues and shared their insights with the participants in the thematic…
UNITAR and CIFAL Curitiba Promoting Action on Road Safety Policy
1-2 August 2017, Curitiba, Brazil - With the objective of contributing towards halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) with the support of Diageo hosted the international capacity building workshop “Strengthening Road Safety in Latin America”.
The workshop took place in Curitiba, Brazil during the 1st and 2nd of August, bringing together over 100 representatives from governments, the private…
Climate Classroom @ NAP Expo 2018
10 April 2018, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - After COP22 and COP23, the most recent edition of the Climate Classroom took place at the NAP Expo 2018. This is an outreach event, which was held on 4-6 April 2018 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to promote experience sharing and collaboration on how to advance National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Session 1: Skills “POKER” for Advancing NAPs
During this class, participants had a teaser on how a new and fun skills assessment tool developed by the NAP Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP) – skills…
UNITAR hosts the XIII Annual Meeting of its CIFAL Global Network
21 October 2016. Quito, Ecuador - The CIFAL Global Network serves government authorities and key actors mainly from local and sub-national levels by providing training on how to tackle issues ranging from road safety to migration and development, leadership and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to name a few.
UNITAR’s global network of affiliated training centres is comprised of 16 “International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL)” Centres located across Africa, Asia-Pacific,…
10 May 2022, New York, USA — The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Longy School of Music of Bard College (Longy), the Global Foundation for the Performing Arts (GFPA), announce a partnership to expand access around the world to Longy’s Master of Music in Music Education degree. Launching in Fall 2022, this joint master program will e quip educators to foster creative youth development and inspire cross -cultural exchange in classrooms worldwide.
“In a moment that requires deeper, global connection, the universal language of the arts is a powerfu...
Enhancing African Capacities in Peacemaking and Conflict Prevention
“I will endeavour to put myself in the shoes of others in order to understand their points of view to enable me to make informed decisions. I learnt that the views of others matter in the resolution of conflict in every situation.”
- Comment from official participating in the UNITAR Regional Training Programme
30 April 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The thirteenth UNITAR Regional Training Programme to Enhance Conflict Prevention and Peacemaking in Africa concluded on 30 April 2015 in Addis Ababa. For…
1 July 2016, Geneva, Switzerland. UNITAR will deliver 2 learning sessions at this year’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF2016), in New York, on 14 July from 10:00 to 12:00 and on 15 July from 15:00 to 17:00. The sessions will aim to promote an improved understanding of requirements related to harmonized policies and inclusive national review and M&E systems for the SDGs. They will feature renowned international and national experts and will be organized as part of the HLPF SDGs Learning, Training and Practice Center.
The High-Level Pol...
OpEd on the occasion of International Migrants Day.
While not focused on migration, the commitments of Copenhagen may have a decisive impact on where people will be able to live in the future – and homes they will have to leave behind.
Estimates of the number of people that will be forced to move because of climate change vary widely, from several millions to over a billion. A large share of those movements will be internal rather than international. Crossing borders usually requires networks and resources. Those hardest hit by the effects of climate change are…
8 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - Researchers at CERN have begun today public testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home. This version allows volunteers to participate for the first time in simulating high-energy collisions of protons in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), thus actively help physicists in the search for new fundamental particles. This is one example of a series of projects and events organized by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, a partnership between CERN, UNITAR/UNOSAT and the University of Geneva, to promote volunteer…
UNITAR invites women from around the world particularly those living or from the Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Asian region to the UNITAR Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day 2023.
The main audience for this programme is women but others are also welcome to apply.
The 10-week online programme aims to equip women with lifelong skills to develop inclusive disaster risk reduction plans that match the needs of their communities and country.
The deadline fo...