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Iryna Markinaさんは2023年、国連ユニタールの「生計強化のためのポーランドのウクライナ人女性避難民向けデジタル・リスキリング」研修事業に参加しました。ウクライナ出身のMarkinaさんは、現在は保険会社の営業部長としてポーランドで在宅勤務をしています。新しいデータ分析と地理情報システム（GIS）のスキルを活用している彼女は、ITの活用能力は年齢で決まるものではないと考えています。すでに専門的な経験を積んでいることが、新たなデジタルスキルをよりうまく統合するのに役立っていると述べています。同研修事業では、ポーランド在住のウクライナ人女性約500人が、就職において需要の高いデジタルスキルを習得し、就業能力を高めました。, 2024年11月22日、広島 - Iryna Markinaさんは、ウクライナで16年以上にわたり、営業職で成功を収めてきました。しかし故郷の治安が悪化したため、彼女は家族数名を残してトルコ、そしてポーランドに移住するという難しい決断を迫られました。彼女は慣れない文化的規範の中、家族の安全への心配も絶えず言葉の壁や不確かな未来を乗り越えなければならないという課題に直面しました。Markinaさんは徐々に、彼女と同じような経験を持つコミュニティとつながり、地元の人々と関係を築くことで適応していきました。現在はポーラン...
UNITAR Roundtable explores World Heritage and the SDGs
2 April 2018, Hiroshima, Japan - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has successfully concluded the UNITAR World Heritage Training Series Alumni Roundtable, which took place in Hiroshima, Japan between 19 and 23 March 2018. The UNITAR World Heritage Training Series was first established in 2003 and has trained over 400 people from 60 countries. This Roundtable brought together eleven alumni and Resource Persons, including five women, from ten different countries, to…
From the 8th to 12th of November 2010, UNITARs Peacekeeping Training Programme, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), delivered a training of trainers (ToT) in Nairobi, Kenya on Natural Resource Management and Peacekeeping. This event, sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office, was attended by environmental focal points from 17 different UN missions and by representatives from four regional training centres.
Experts presented material ranging from the relationship between…
The GIS for the United Nations and the International Community Conference will take place April 3–5, 2012, at the World Meteorological Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Esri and UNITAR through its UNOSAT Programme organized the conference to demonstrate and discuss the role of GIS in global challenges. Attendees will consider how GIS can provide the analytic knowledge required to make better decisions on issues that are critical for the planet.
"In today's world, we face many global challenges brought on from natural and man-made events," says Jack…
UNITAR Delivers Course on Drafting and Presentation Skills in Brussels
8 - 11 May 2017, Brussels, Belgium- United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), organized a workshop titled “Drafting and Presentation Skills in a Context of Global Diplomacy: Writing Intensive Training Course, with a Presentation Component” in collaboration with the African Caribean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Secretariat; taught by Professors Alexandra Carter and Shawn Watts from Columbia Law School. UNITAR will continue organizing such course in French and English…
UNITAR Hosts Second Course of Columbia Law School Series
2 November 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted the second lecture in its 3-part series sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Sweden as a part of the programme “Levelling the Playing Field to support the Least Developed Countries’ (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) Diplomats”. The topic discussed was “Women, Peace and Security” and was held in United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA.
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DIHAD is the largest event in the Arab region focusing on humanitarian efforts. The conference eight edition held in Dubai at the end of March 2011 focused on new technology for humanitarian aid and development. Its Scientific Board called on UNOSAT to chair the session on satellite technology, which featured speakers from Google, the European Commission Joint Research Centre and European Space Imaging a leading company based in Germany providing satellite imagery.
The event gathered all principal UN agencies and NGOs active in humanitarian relief as well as a number of…
UNITAR Closes Orientation For Fifth Committee Delegates for 73rd UNGA
5 September 2018, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office hosted the second session of its Orientation Course for New Delegates on the 5th Committee in the United Nations Headquarter. The Oversight Mechanisms of the United Nations and an overview of UN International Civil Service were the discussion topics of the session.
UNITAR New York Head of Office, Mr. Marco Suazo began the session with opening remarks. He handed the floor over to…
18-19 April 201, Jakarta, Indonesia - In cooperation with the Diplomatic Academy of Indonesia, UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) organized a two day training workshop for Junior, Mid-level and Senior Diplomats from Indonesia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). On the first day the senior diplomats received a briefing on Leadership, where they got to know the evolution and the different theories of leadership leading to a value based and transformational leadership.
This session helped the participants demystify the concept of leadership…
Join UNOSAT and ESRI in Addressing Global Challenges at the 2015 GIS for the United Nations and the International Community Conference
18-20 May 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, at Campus Biotech – UNOSAT and ESRI invites you to join the geospatial professionals from international organizations and nonprofits from around the world at the 2015 GIS for the United Nations and the International Community Conference. The conference will present an opportunity to show how geospatial technology enables organizations worldwide to combat global challenges through spatial analysis and…