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“Different armed groups remain in control of large areas of the territory, particularly illegal border posts, affecting not only Colombians but also Venezuelans who cross the border every day escaping from hunger and political violence. In 2018, 160 cases of recruitment of children by armed groups were reported in Arauca.”
Explains Luis Bolivar, who together with his colleague Keydi Perez work for Corporación Infancia y Desarrollo in Arauca – one of the provinces most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. In addition, they emphasise that the province is facing a dang...
Mwikali Munyao, Kenyan carpenter and entrepreneur, participated in the first round of the UNITAR Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, Mwikali lost her job as a customer service agent. She decided to pursue her interest in carpentry and turned it into a business.
The UNITAR training taught her the entrepreneurial skills she needed and helped her business overcome financial challenges.
The second round of the UNITAR entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership training programme, r...
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※リンク先が英文となっている場合があります。ご了承ください。, 世界陸上選手権400mハードルで2回銅メダルを獲得した為末大さんが、2021年7月に国連ユニタール親善大使に就任しました。世界陸上選手権でメダルを獲得した初めての日本選手で、シドニーオリンピック（2000年）、アテネオリンピック（2004年）、北京オリンピック（2008年）にも日本代表として出場しました。広島市出身で被爆3世でもあり、2012年の現役引退後は、アジアの国々のアスリートの支援、パラスポーツの支援、国際平和のためのメッセージの発信などに尽力しています。
親善大使は、持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）達成を促すため、様々な分野で影響力のある方々にご就任いただいています。為末さんのように著名で国際的な経験があり、他者のために働き掛け...
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※リンク先が英文となっている場合があります。ご了承ください。, 国連ユニタールは、世界経済フォーラムにおいてシュワブ財団が主導する社会起業家のためのグローバル・アライアンスに新たに加わりました。グローバルアライアンスは、新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックの最前線にいる社会起業家への支援を結集するため、新型コロナウイルスへのレスポンス・アライアンスとして2020年4月に発足。このほど装い新たに、世界経済フォーラム（WEF）年次総会（2022年5月22日～26日、ダボス（スイス））でグローバル・アライアンスとして生まれ変わり、国際的に著名な100団体と推計10万人以上の社会起業家が参加しています。ユニタールは社会起業家を支援するための専門知識を提供しているほか、修了生や研修生のネットワークと、世界中から集ま...
On 13 November 2024, UNITAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Wolverhampton aimed to foster innovative education models, cutting-edge research, and meaningful international cooperation to advance SDG progress across sectors.UNITAR and the University of Wolverhampton will develop programmes, doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, research centre, and conferences to enhance the international dissemination of knowledge and SDG solutions. The University of Wolverhampton will leverage its expertise to design specialised courses, degree programmes,...
Name: Hana Ali
Title: Entrepreneur
Country: Iraq/UK/Germany
Fellowship: UNITAR COVID-19 Response & Recovery Programme: Mobilizing Resilient Social Entrepreneurs to Address Food Insecurity and Unemployment for Youth in Iraq
“I once heard a really fantastic quote. It goes a little something like this: ‘take one small step every day, and at the end of the year you will have taken 365 steps”, says Hana Ali with smiley eyes. Based on her experience, consistency is the best advice she can give to anyone willing to join the entrepreneurial world. “A lot of people feel discour...
30 March 2023, Dakar, Senegal – UNITAR, the Centre International de Formation des Autorités et Leaders (CIFAL) Dakar, and the Municipality of Dakar hosted forty-two nurses and midwives from Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Mali for a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop titled “Improving Breastfeeding Education in Sub-Saharan Africa” on 15 and 16 March 2023 in Dakar, Senegal. The workshop contributed to the goal of promoting breastfeeding education and optimal breastfeeding practices. Primarily aligned with Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 3, promoting breastfee...
16 November 2020, Dakar, Senegal – To join the global activities during the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Dakar, in partnership with the Municipality of Dakar, and with the support of Diageo inaugurated on 16 November 2020 the training course “High Visibility Enforcement Interventions: Law Enforcement to Reduce Road Traffic Crashes related to Drivers using Alcohol”.
Mr. Mouhamed Diop, Director of CIFAL Dakar, inaugurated the event that welcomed 50 law enforcement offic...
The Leave No One Behind Fund (LNOB Fund) is a flexible, pooled funding instrument that helps UNITAR to deliver on its mandate and meet the learning and broader capacity development needs of individuals, organizations and institutions from the least developed countries, the landlocked developing countries, the small island developing States, countries in Africa and countries in and emerging from conflict (collectively referred as the countries in special situations). The LNOB Fund also targets the needs of groups made vulnerable, including women and children, persons with di...
June 2020 - The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), a project of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), launched COVID.za.com, a self-diagnostic application and dashboard to assist the authorities in identifying communities with a high prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms and facilitate targeted testing and treatment interventions.
The project is the product of a strong coalition between the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Global Surgery Foundation, the Rali and Makentse Mampeule Foundation, the University of Cape Town Di...