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Training on Information Technology Application for Developing Countries
2 May 2016, Shanghai, China - CIFAL Shanghai with the support of the Ministry of Commerce of China hosted from 16 April to 2 May the course titled “Information Technology Application for Developing Countries”，bringing together a group of 20 participants from Armenia. Participants included the Head of the Department of Communication and Information of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Armenia, as well as staff members from the Ministry.
Since 2009, CIFAL Shanghai has offered 28 training…
18 Officials Graduate with Executive Master Degree in Development Policies and Practices
9 June 2016, Bangkok, Thailand – 18 Afghan government officials from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Civil Service Commission, and the Office of the President of Afghanistan, completed the final module of the Executive Master Degree programme in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) and received their degrees at a graduation ceremony at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Mr. Alex Mejia, senior manager of UNITAR’s Decentralized Cooperation…
CIFAL Jeju Contributing to Counter Human Trafficking in Asia-Pacific
13 June 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea – CIFAL Jeju convened a four-day workshop on "Enhancing a Victim-Centered Approach: Identification, Assistance and Protection of Trafficking Victims in the Asia-Pacific Region” in collaboration with Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO). This training event gathered nineteen government officials (central, state and local), and civil society workers from different countries in the Asia-Pacific region from 13 to 16 June at Jeju International Training Center…
CIFAL Argentina Promoting a Dialogue on Mobility, Sustainable Transport and Road Safety
26 September 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina – CIFAL Argentina jointly with the Habitat III Secretariat and the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM) hosted the “Urban Morning: Mobility, Sustainable Transport and Road Safety” to facilitate a dialogue on innovative strategies that advance urban mobility and sustainable transport, as well as measures that improve road safety in cities.
Mr. Juan Matteo, Executive Secretary of the Argentina Federation of Municipalities (FAM)…
UNITAR hosts the XIII Annual Meeting of its CIFAL Global Network
21 October 2016. Quito, Ecuador - The CIFAL Global Network serves government authorities and key actors mainly from local and sub-national levels by providing training on how to tackle issues ranging from road safety to migration and development, leadership and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to name a few.
UNITAR’s global network of affiliated training centres is comprised of 16 “International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL)” Centres located across Africa, Asia-Pacific,…
Women's Leadership Retreat in Partnership With the InClaritas Foundation
13-15 October 2016, Stockholm, Sweden - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in partnership with the InClaritas Foundation, held a Women’s Leadership retreat for senior female leaders on the theme: "Leading in Time of Global Transition", in Stockholm, Sweden. In this exclusive, three-day intensive retreat, participants discovered their own and unique leadership style and learned how to harness it.
The retreat took place near Stockholm and included visits to the…
January 2014, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR is pleased to announce that a new Head of Hiroshima Office, Ms. Mihoko Kumamoto, took office from January 2014.
Ms. Mihoko Kumamoto has over 18 years of professional experience in the development cooperation field and has been with the United Nations for 12 years. Ms. Kumamoto started her career at Kyushu Electric Power Company in Japan where she coordinated training programmes and while there, she discovered that her passion was in helping people to help themselves, specifically through human development and development cooperation…
UNITAR Trains African Ministry Officials on Climate Change Diplomacy and Health
5 - 7 November 2014, Nairobi, Kenya – Climate change and its direct impacts are projected to pose some of the most pertinent and extreme risks to human livelihoods in coming decades. Risks of severe ill-health, mortality and morbidity due to climatic change increase in likelihood with greater magnitudes of warming, and many of these risks constitute challenges particularly for the least developed countries and vulnerable communities, given their limited abilities to cope.
UNITAR, in…
CIFAL Atlanta Contributing to Empower Youth from Southeast Asia
31 January - 30 March 2018, Atlanta, USA – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Atlanta (CIFAL Atlanta) in partnership with Kennesaw State University (KSU), hosted 21 young leaders from nine countries in Southeast Asia including Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam who participated in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).
The YSEALI is a U.S. State Department programme that aims to build the leadership capabilities…
Education for Sustainable Development
Education is essential in supporting the implementation of the sustainable development agenda and human development.
13 April 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - Because at UN CC:Learn we work to empower people to carry out long-term impact solutions to climate change, through capacity building, we contributed to the recently launched policy brief developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Action Programme: “Education for Sustainable Development: Learning to Act, Learning to Achieve”.…