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Two years ago when Sitra Abubaker founded her digital marketing start-up Social.ly in Ethiopia, she admits she had no educational background and no professional experience to run a business. So when a friend told her about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s online course empowering women as entrepreneurs, she leaped at the chance.
“If I had to pick one thing … it’s understanding customers … developing a value proposition that is meaningful and relevant,” she says. “Everything I learned from this course has been helpful to my start-up.”
With Social.ly, Sitra wants to bridg...
Since 2016, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, in collaboration with the Government of Japan, has organized the “UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day”. The programme's objective is to strengthen women professionals’ knowledge of tsunami-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) to better prevent, prepare, confront, and recover from tsunami-related disasters. It also develops skills in women’s leadership, inclusive approach to DRR, effective communication, and development of multi-stakeholder coal...
UNOSAT and ADPC, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre based in Bangkok, took the decision to enter into a partnership to increase their ongoing collaboration in several domains in which both entities have common strategic interests and tangible output.
ADPC is a non-profit organization supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development through implementing programs and projects that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. ADPC focuses primarily on institutional disaster risk management…
UNITAR hosts Orientation Course on the Economic and Social Council
23 January 2018, New York City, U.S.A – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) have jointly hosted a one-day orientation course on the Economic and Social Council for the Members of the Council. The event was hosted in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
The orientation course consisted of six different sessions which covered a wide variet...
2024年10月1日、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、「自由で開かれたインド太平洋のリーダー育成研修：海洋と人間の安全保障」（FOIP）研修事業（日本政府拠出）のフィジー・ナンディでの地域ワークショップに、太平洋島嶼国8か国の政府機関、非政府組織、民間セクターからの70名を超える参加者を迎えました。開会式には道井緑一郎 駐フィジー共和国、ナウル共和国、ツバル日本国特命全権大使ならびにフィジー政府よりジョーン・マリティノ・ネマニ雇用・生産性・労使関係省次官のご臨席を賜りました。この研修事業は、日本政府と日本国民の資金援助を受けて実施されるもので、参加者の専門スキル、リーダーシップスキル、地域ネットワークを強化し、気候、社会、経済、食料、海洋に関わる安全保障の強化のための地域の能力を高めることを目的としています。フィジーでの10日間の地域ワークショップは、同事業の第2フェーズとして開催されます。9週間のオンライン学習で構成される第1フェーズからの成績優秀者が、第2フェーズの本ワークショップに参加しています。国連ユニタール広島事務所長の三上知佐は開会式の冒頭で挨拶を行い、参加者および関係者を温かく歓迎しました。三上所長は、「太平洋地域のリーダーやチェンジメーカーである皆様がこの場に集結したことは、より安全でレジリエンスのある未来を築き...
1 August 2024 , Geneva, Switzerland,– The recent conflict in the Gaza Strip has produced a volume of debris that is 14 times greater than the combined total from all conflicts over the past 16 years. This finding comes from a comprehensive assessment conducted by UN-HABITAT and UNEP. The analysis, using satellite imagery analysis provided by UNOSAT, offers a detailed view of the extensive destruction and its implications for debris management.63% of the structures in the Gaza Strip are damagedUNOSAT’s latest damage building assessment, based on satellite imagery from 6 July...
2024年8月30日、広島―世界の若きリーダーたちは、2024年8月29日に広島で開催されたユース国際会議で、核兵器なき平和な未来を実現するために団結を呼びかけました。この会議は、日本政府の支援を受け国連軍縮部が実施する「ユース非核リーダー基金（YLF）」事業の広島・長崎スタディツアーの最終日に開催されました。国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、国連軍縮部 （UNODA）のパートナーとして、初開催となるスタディツアーをサポートしました。このツアーには、世界37カ国から若者49人が参加し、核兵器のない世界の実現のために必要な知識を深め、具体的な行動計画について議論をするため被爆地に集結しました。このスタディツアーは、参加者が核兵器使用がもたらす脅威や破滅的な被爆の実相について被爆地で理解を深め、核兵器のない世界を実現するために、未来を担う若者たちのネットワークを構築することを目的としています。参加者は平和公園や原爆資料館を訪問し、被爆者や地元で核軍縮に取り組む若者たちと対話を通じて交流を深めました。スタディツアーの最終日である8月29日に広島で開催された「ユース国際会議 核兵器なき世界の実現に向けて」には、スタディツアーの参加者に加え、国連ユニタール広島青少年大使プログラムとヒロシマピースボランティアの地元広島の若者も参加しました。会...
Learn more about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s programmes and activities from late November 2024 to February 2025. Past issues in August 2024 and November 2024., United Nations Secretary-General Appoints Michelle Gyles-McDonnough as Executive Director of UNITAR UNITAR welcomes Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough of Jamaica as its new Executive Director. She succeeds Mr. Nikhil Seth of India, effective 22 February 2025. With over 30 years of experience in sustainable development, policy advocacy, international trade, international relations and organizational cha...
For the fourth consecutive year, the Climate Classroom provided an opportunity to COP participants to get up to speed on key climate change topics through 45-minute learning sessions. , The classes provide highlights in key climate change areas for busy delegates to be better prepared when joining discussions and events at COP25 of the UNFCCC, held in Madrid, Spain in December 2019, and beyond.
On this occasion, classes popped-up in various locations across COP25 to reach out to a varied audience. The space was visible to a broad public, using a completely mobile set-up, i...
25 May 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The President of the 74th World Health Assembly and Minister of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan, Ms Dechen Wangmo visited the Defeat-NCD Partnership’s office at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva today to set the tone at a high-level panel discussion aimed at tackling the twin challenges of COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
“I understand that time has passed for mere statements and rhetoric in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of universal access to healt...