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22 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Division for People launched the “Webinar Series Management Practices for Safer Roads” to raise awareness about practical interventions and best practices that contribute to improve road safety. Mr. Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR, kicked off the series and highlighted the importance of remaining focused on issues like road safety during these unprecedented times. “Let’s continue to take bold steps to reduce road traffic crashes and let’s further collaborate so that when the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, we stand read...
19 - 20 February 2018, Bangkok, Thailand – A two-day regional workshop on “Governance of data ecosystems for SDGs” held on 19-20 February 2018 in Bangkok was marked by the pilot testing of the new StaTact toolkit by four countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Nepal. The toolkit is part of the joint initiative developed by UNITAR and UN Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with other UN and international organizations. The objective is to enable National Statistical Offices, Planning and line Ministries to identify solutions to specific data coordination issues...
8 November 2024, Vientiane, Lao PDR - The year 2024 was declared by the Secretary-General to be the year of building trust and hope. In his report Our Common Agenda the Secretary-General observedIncreasingly, people are turning their backs on the values of trust and solidarity in one another – the very values we need to rebuild our world and secure a better, more sustainable future for our people and our planet.ASEAN and the greater Asia and the Pacific region made a conscious shift to move from a deficit of trust to building strategic trust. ASEAN’s confidence and tru...
Based in the political core of the United Nations, UNITAR Office in New York (NYO) continues to provide resources to the permanent missions and the New York diplomatic community. Through meaningful contributions to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the programmes and events bring public awareness, education and training, and the enhancement of global decision-making to public policy officials. One of the ways to achieve peace around the world is to work together. UNITAR has been collaborating with organizations associated wi...
DFID and UNITAR Launch Innovative Platform to Deliver Transformational Change in Humanitarian Work in Pakistan
16 February 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan - Future support to Pakistani people needing humanitarian support will be improved, thanks to a new platform launched by the UK Government and UNITAR in Islamabad.
The Pakistan Evidence and Learning Platform (PELP) aims to improve the humanitarian response in Pakistan through knowledge management, capacity building, and third-party monitoring. It was launched by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research…
August 2011, Western Cape, South Africa -The Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (D: EA&DP) has developed a mercury emissions inventory of the Province, following the methodology proposed in UNEP’s Toolkit for the Identification and Quantification for Mercury Emissions.
The provincial inventory will feed information into the national inventory, providing examples of the main sources of mercury emissions that can be found at the local level. D:EA&DP identified medical waste incineration, waste water effluent, sludge disposal to…
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Boxing Association (IBA). The ceremony took place at UNITAR Headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday, 5 April 2023.
06.04.2023, Geneva, Switzerland - Mr. Nikhil Seth, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and IBA President Umar Kremlev signed the Memorandum, which becomes the first step in the cooperation between both parties. The two organizations agreed on opportunities to discuss a series of international high-level conferenc...
06 February 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - In the framework of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland from 21 to 24 January 2020, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with AB InBev renewed its collaboration to continue to “Strengthening Road Safety - A partnership to build capacity, drive innovation and deliver meaningful impact”.
The partnership is aligned to the call from the United Nations General Assembly during its seventy-fourth session[1] in which invited all relevant stakeholders, internatio...
“Very importantly, climate displacement is a huge reality in our region and very much in Fiji, and using the CommonSensing tools and data, we have started to prioritise top 15 communities in urgent need of relocation. The CS risk index can help us not just to approach this whole question of relocating people, but also to prioritize who has to move and whose land we can save. It tells us how far inland we need to move a village. Without the CommonSensing platform, this would have been very difficult to achieve.” Shivanal Kumar, Climate Change Adaptation Specialist, Min...
2025年8月6日、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、広島県およびへいわ創造機構ひろしま（HOPe）と共催で、被爆80年を迎える広島にて国際平和のためのユース対話イベントを開催しました。国連ユニタール広島青少年大使たちは、2050年までに核兵器のない世界を実現するためのロードマップを発表し、専門家や実務者と意見交換を行いました。来賓として出席した岸田文雄衆議院議員・元内閣総理大臣は、今こそ核兵器廃絶に向けて連帯と行動を強化すべき重要な時期であると強調しました。本イベントは、2025年日本国際博覧会（大阪・関西万博）の会場にてライブ上映され、オンラインでも同時配信されました。日英両言語の録画はYouTubeにて視聴可能です。, 2025年8月6日、日本、広島 - 2025年8月6日、被爆から80年の節目を迎えた広島にて、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、広島県およびへいわ創造機構ひろしま（HOPe）と共催で、国際平和のためのユース対話イベント「被爆80年の今、広島から世界へ ― 若者が提案する 核兵器廃絶・平和への道 ―」を開催しました。本イベントは、広島県内の高校生を中心とする若者たちが、「2050年までに核兵器のない平和な世界」を実現するための具体的なロードマップを発表し、第一線で活躍する専門家や実務者との対話を通じて提案内容...