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31 July 2024, New York, New York - 0n July 8 - 17, 2024 The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched the 2024 iteration of the two organization’s long-term partnership programme, the SDGs Learning, Training and Practice (SDGs In Practice). SDGs in Practice is a series of substantive capacity-building trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions, held as a special event during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), with a theme around the five Sustainabl...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment III (GEWE III), the third phase of its programme to build leadership and gender-responsive capacities.
36 government officials from Jordan and Lebanon will be trained to enhance their skills and knowledge in policy-making to address gender inequalities.
On 11 July 2023, the programme was launched online and was delivered in Arabic.
, 14 July 2023, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched Gender Equality and Women Empowerment III (GEWE III), the third phase ...
UNITAR will use 3D virtual technologies to bring to online learners the powerful experience of visiting the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
The 360-degree tour will include the inside of the Atomic Bomb Dome and 14 other monuments around the park.
The virtual tour will be used in the UNITAR Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training Programme 2022 (25 February to 18 March 2022).
The training programme teaches participants about the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the latest developments in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
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In November 2020, UNITAR hosted – in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division - three regional online workshops for the Latin American, African and Asian regions to demonstrate the use of the updated, collaborative StaTact platform to respond to new challenges that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and to make necessary adjustments to the annual statistical programmes of work. This was followed by the presentation of StaTact during the Webinar of the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians by UNITAR and UNSD on 8 December 2020.
As National Stati...
Upon the request of UN Member States and/or in partnership with intergovernmental organizations, UNITAR designs and delivers tailor-made activities on themes related to multilateral diplomacy and international affairs. The duration, content and structure of the courses are defined in close consultation with the beneficiaries, governments and partner organizations in order to meet their specific needs.UNITAR’s customized training activities on multilateral diplomacy and international affairs can be implemented face-to-face in Geneva, in the beneficiary’s country o...
Joumana El Halabi is a gender focal point at the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Since 2013, Joumana is working with local and international partners to raise awareness on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The COVID-19 pandemic, refugee influx and economic crisis are challenging gender equality and women’s empowerment in Lebanon.
Joumana learned how to integrate gender in action plans, monitoring & evaluation, and strategy through the UNITAR Division for Prosperity online training programme on gender equality and women’s empowerment...
29 February 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) launched its Global Learning Platform on Financial Inclusion during the 8th AGFUND Development Forum in Geneva, Switzerland on October 8, 2019.
The objective of the platform is to scale-up support to the financially excluded members of society and to offer them solutions to help and empower themselves to contribute positively in the financial systems.
The 8th AGFUND Forum which focused on “Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion” was a fitting occasion to launch ...
The Learning Solutions team within UNITAR's Division for Peace includes learning specialists, trainers, instructional designers, and innovators who support high-quality training projects. We excel in designing comprehensive solutions for addressing complex global challenges. Our core team collaborates with a global network of learning specialists, facilitators, and technical experts to design and implement our projects. , &nbs...
6 April 2022 - This virtual side event organized by UNITAR, as part of the Crowd4SDG project, brought together passionate stakeholders involved with Citizen Science Data (CSD). Speakers shared their experience working with citizen scientists, as well as enabling the use of CSD by National Statistical Offices and Systems (NSOs and NSSs).
Ms. Hayoi Chen, Coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys at the UN Statistics Division moderated this session and representatives from UNITAR, Office for National Statistics UK (ONS), the Dutch National Insti...
3 June 2025, Atlanta, Georgia, USA – Senior airport officials and civil aviation authorities from 10 countries including Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Jamaica, Liberia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the US Virgin Islands took part in the “Future-Proofing Airport Development: Building Resilience Through Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management” workshop held in Atlanta on 28-29 May 2025. The intensive two-day workshop examined critical strategies for airport crisis response and operational continuity. In p...