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Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall during the night of 14 to 15 March 2019 near Beira, a low-lying city of 500,000 residents in central Mozambique, before moving inland to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Malawi. The cyclone brought winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph) and torrential rains that caused rivers to burst over their banks and submerge streets and homes across several provinces in Mozambique. Governmental officials described the damage as "massive and horrifying" while IFRC and UN officials described seeing “water and water for miles and miles” and “90 percent of the Beir...
15 July 2019, New York, USA – In the framework of the High-Level Political Forum 2019: Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality, UNITAR launched an interactive e-learning Road Safety Toolkit that presents a practical management methodology to:
Collect data on the number and location of deaths by road user type
Identify hazardous and critical road locations and sections where excessive numbers or severity of crashes occur
Outline corrective measures
Implement interventions and monitor results
The Toolkit is based on the premise that achieving road sa...
Building on their respective comparative advantages, UNDP and UNITAR will organize a total of 35 training and networking events over a 12-month period. More than 1,100 African negotiators and decision-makers will directly benefit from training and networking activities which incorporate UNITAR’s innovative methodologies and long-standing experience in knowledge transfer and executive learning.
Training will initially focus on four priority areas related to economic and social development of Africa: financing for development, regional investment and integration, climate…
UNITAR Delivers Successful Training Workshop for The Diplomatic School of Spain
22-23 February 2017, Madrid Spain- February 23, 2017 ended a two-day training workshop on Conference Diplomacy and Multilateral Negotiations with The Diplomatic School of Spain in Madrid. This training gathered 19 Spanish junior diplomats and was dedicated to enhancing decision-making and negotiation capacities within multilateral settings.
The 19 participants were briefed by Mr. Rabih El-Haddad, UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme Manager and H.E. Mr. Lars Tillfors, a former…
CIFAL Atlanta Concludes Seminar on Airport Emergency Planning
11-13 April 2018, Atlanta, United States – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Atlanta (CIFAL Atlanta) in partnership with Airports Council International (ACI) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, held a three-day long learning event on airport emergency planning with 35 senior level airport officials from developing countries throughout the Caribbean, South America and Africa. The seminar focused on strategies for airport emergency action planning with a…
UNITAR Hosts Panel on Defining Frontier Diplomacy
27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR organized an interactive panel entitled “Defining Frontier Diplomacy”. The panel was the conclusion of a week-long International Law I course for a delegation from the Ministry of External Affairs of India.
Experts representing various sectors and professions inaugurated the highly anticipated concept of Frontier Diplomacy during the panel, including Dr. Maurizio Bona from CERN, Mr. Shaun Riordan from Clingendael Institute, Mr. Laurent Ferrali from ICANN and Mr. Martin Dion from…
January 2012, Conakry, Republic of Guinea – In the framework of the project “Developing an Integrated National Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals and SAICM Implementation in the Republic of Guinea”, a National Forum on Governance and Priority Setting for SAICM Implementation was held from 25 to 26 January 2012 with the participation of UNITAR. The objectives of the workshop were to raise awareness about the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, to review and endorse the National Profile to assess the national infrastructure for chemicals…
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 36 multilateral organizations collaborating in the development and/or delivery of climate change related learning at the global, regional and country levels. It was built in response to calls for a coordinated approach to climate change learning across UN and other multilaterals. Having been initially developed to support policy makers and field practitioners working for multilaterals, over time it has broadened its reach to businesses, NGOs, Academic organizations and the general public. It is hosted by UNITAR and its online platform hosts c...
The 2018 Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity
26 - 28 June 2018, Jeju, The Republic of Korea – Since 2001, the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity has sought for a “New Asia” with an emphasis on peace and prosperity in the region. Sustainable peace and common prosperity is a universal value that the international community continues to pursue. No single country or party can achieve peace and prosperity in Asia. Building a peaceful and prosperous community requires joint, cooperative efforts driven by a common vision, which is ideally set and shared by a community, rather…
PeaceAble Syria: An Intimate Glimpse
Panel Discussion on the occasion of the official launch of the Master’s in Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding Degree Programme (UNITAR / Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: United Nations Office at Geneva (Palais des Nations), Room XI
Date and Time: Friday, 23 March 2018, 12.30 – 14.00
Participants in the discussion
Ms. Fida Alobeid – Child Protection Officer, UNICEF Syria Country Office
Dr. Brigitte Piquard – Reader in Humanitarianism and Conflict, HAP Programme Manager, Oxford Brookes University
Dr. Claudia Croci…