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Gloria Loishiye is a sustainability enthusiast and result-driven entrepreneur from Tanzania whose business philosophy includes intentionality, diversification and strategic planning.
In 2023, Gloria joined the Advancing Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme.
For Gloria, the programme has been an eye-opener, and she is using her new knowledge and skills to expand her business.
The programme was delivered by UNITAR Division for Prosperity / Hiroshima Office in partnership with United Nations Development Programme...
CIFAL Argentina Hosts Seminar on Green Bonds and Climate Finance
14 - 16 June 2017, Posadas, Argentina – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Argentina (CIFAL Argentina) with the support of Yacyretá Binacional hosted the seminar “Green Bonds and Climate Finance” in the City of Posadas, Province of Misiones.
In line with Sustainable Development Goal 13 to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, CIFAL Argentina hosted a three-day seminar to address in a comprehensive manner the topic of climate finance and instruments such…
CIFAL Flanders Hosts SDGs Learning Seminar
28 September 2018, Antwerp, Belgium – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Flanders (CIFAL Flanders) in partnership with the University of Antwerp hosted the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Learning Seminar”, bringing multi-stakeholders together for capacity building on the SDGs, as well as engaging in roundtable discussions to link theory to practice. This seminar features speakers and experts from academia and other sectors on key topics related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for…
UNITAR Hosts Dialogue on Advancing the SDGs in Collaboration with the Private Sector
26 September 2018, New York, United States – UNITAR with the support of the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the UN in New York hosted the Dialogue “Advancing the SDGs - A partners perspective” during the U.N. General Assembly week.
The special meeting was inaugurated by H.E. Hugo Francisco Rivera, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation of the Dominican Republic and the discussion was facilitated by Dr. David Nabarro, former…
26 August 2024, Geneva, Switzerland - On April 10 and 11, Ekos Magazine, UNITAR, and CIFAL Ecuador welcomed over 15,000 attendees and more than 180 organizations in the Ecuador Sustainability Summit 2024, in which 100 national and international speakers shared their best sustainability practices and innovative visions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event also saw the participation of distinguished authorities, CEOs of Ecuador's leading companies, civil society organizations, and members of the diplomatic corps. Among them were H.E. Ms. Gabr...
国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、個人や団体への創造的な研修を通じて、よりよい未来のための世界レベル・国家レベルでの意思決定を促進する国連機関です。1963年に設立され、2020年には322,410人に学びの機会を提供しました。スイス・ジュネーブの本部のほか、ニューヨーク事務所、広島事務所、ボン事務所があり、世界中に様々な拠点やネットワークをもっています。持続可能な繁栄局（Division for Prosperity）では、広島事務所とジュネーブ本部の職員がともに、起業やリーダーシップ、貿易と金融、デジタル技術、軍縮などについて世界レベルの知識や技術の共有を進めています。アフガニスタン、南スーダン、イラクなど紛争後復興の過程にある国の人々へのプログラムなどには、広島という立地を生かし、原爆投下後から現在の平和都市に至る過程を一つの復興モデルとして研修に組み込むなど、平和で公正な社会の実現にも貢献しています。
広島という象徴的な地に設立された最初の国連機関であり、中四国地方で唯一の国連機関でもあります。研修・研究活動に加え、研究機関や行政機関・民間企業など幅広い分野の機関との連絡調整といった、ユニタールでの戦略的な役割も担っています。
日本での公的な支援組織として、2019年に一般社団法人「国連ユニタール協会」が創設され、国連ユニタール...
Iryna Markina participated in the 2023 “Bolstering Livelihoods: Digital Reskilling for Ukrainian Women Evacuees in Poland”.Iryna is originally from Ukraine and now works remotely in Poland as head of the sales department for an insurance company.She is using her new data analytics and GIS skills and believes that age does not determine whether one can utilize IT or not. Already having professional experience helps her better integrate her new digital skills.The Bolstering Livelihoods programme trained over 500 Ukrainian women in Poland with high-demand digital skills in ord...
1 to 6 August 2011, Addis Ababa. More than seventy Ambassadors and senior Government Officials of Ethiopia convened in Addis Ababa during the first week of August at a workshop co-organised by UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ethiopia, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, to share information and benefit from tailor-made briefings on the latest developments in business, trade and economic diplomacy. The topics discussed ranged from economic and commercial diplomacy to international perspectives on…
CIFAL Flanders hosted the Action Learning Day on the Sustainable Development Goals
10 May 2017, Antwerp, Belgium – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Antwerp (CIFAL Flanders) in partnership with the Antwerp Port Tours, the Port of Antwerp and the University of Antwerp hosted the “Action Learning Day” at the Port of Antwerp to raise awareness about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The event brought together 30 International Business Administration students from the University of Antwerp to learn about Agenda 2030 for Sustainable…
CIFAL Shanghai Delivers XIII Smart City Public Lecture
16 April 2015, Shanghai, China– CIFAL Shanghai hosted the XIII Smart City Public Lecture “Credit Information System: Realizing the Intelligence of Internet Finance” on 31 March 2015. The objective of the lecture was to make internet finance organizations aware of the concept of credit information, perceive the value and meaning of information sharing, eliminate blind spots of individual information systems, and further extend the coverage area of credit information systems, while maximizing the potential of the…