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September 2021 - UNITAR, as the member of the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST), has recently published an article entitled “Strengthening the competencies of policymakers for better use of data in public policy design” in the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS).
The article presents the results of a survey conducted by the GIST Task Team on Statistical Literacy in 2018. Drawing inspiration from earlier work of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on the statistical literacy competencies...
6 October 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR Division for Prosperity has launched the #FreedomToLearn donation drive with UNITAR Association to boost the financial resilience of women in Afghanistan in these times of heightened uncertainty. The campaign targets residents of Japan.
The funds raised will be used to immediately develop and run a short, free online course for women in Afghanistan. Potential topics for the course include practical skills to help the women run/start their businesses or find work, navigate disinfodemics, and manage stress. It will be offered throug...
8 October 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR Division for Prosperity is relaunching its programme in Afghanistan after a temporary pause. The programme, which had been halted due to unrest in the country, will mobilize women entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs to address local food insecurity, public health challenges, and unemployment.
Women are finding it difficult to access learning opportunities in the ever-changing situation in Afghanistan. After consulting with local coordinators, UNITAR believes that training not only is necessary but will be welcomed by beneficiari...
After the record-breaking pace of vaccine and development and deployment, one of the pressing challenges the world faces today is linked to the design of effective communication strategies that promote the adoption of protective behaviors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccination.In an effort to assist local and national governments, businesses and key stakeholders to develop effective COVID-19 communication strategies focused on promoting protective behavior and maximum uptake of the new COVID-19 vaccines that are now coming on stream, UNITAR is pleased to pres...
19 February 2021, Geneva, Switzerland -The Introduction to Green Economy course is now available in Romanian. This newly developed version of the course has been launched on the occasion of the annual high-level event “Green Economy – Made in Moldova” on 29 January 2021. UNEP, one of the implementing agencies of the EU-funded EU4Environment programme, along with UNITAR, has brought to life the version in Romanian, expanding the number of languages available for this course to 6: English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian, Mongolian and&nbs...
Thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between UNESCO and UNITAR in 2015, and building on our previous two reports on damage to archeological sites in Syria (2014) and in Syria, Iraq, Nepal, and Yemen (2015), satellite imagery analysis is now a routine tool for assessing potential damage to cultural heritage sites.
The complementary roles of UNESCO and UNITAR-UNOSAT are important as they ensure an objective UN assessment of the status of cultural heritage, free from political bias and founded on scientific methods. This comprehensive study has revealed significan...
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) recognizes the importance of women’s participation in peacekeeping operations, while resolution 2242 (2015) calls for the doubling of the number of uniformed women personnel by 2020. Building upon the Secretary-General’s System-Wide Strategy on Gender Parity, the Department of Peace Operations has developed a Uniformed Personnel Gender Parity Strategy with clear targets to achieve by 2028.
As the training arm of the United Nations, UNITAR contributes to international, national and local efforts aimed at advancing gender equality a...
June 2020 - Interested in financial inclusion and financial management and want to upskill yourself? Our joint AGFUND-UNITAR Global Learning Platform on Financial Inclusion has a range of upcoming courses to help build your skills around key finance topics. We've already received thousands of applications from around the world for courses on the platform and are excited to be announcing new courses which will be starting soon. , Upcoming courses that you can apply for include:
Leadership Skills for Finance Managers
Fundamentals of Anti-Money Laundering: International St...
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5 July 2019, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Harvard Medical School's Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), committing to bringing surgical, obstetrical and anaesthesia care into the mainstream discussions of global health and offering innovative capacity-building tools to support the development of improved surgical care systems globally
PGSSC is a collaborative effort working to strengthen global surgical systems through research, advocacy, and ...