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28 April 2025, Miami, USA – CIFAL Miami is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of the Disaster Preparedness Seminar. The event will take place on 22 and 23 May 2025 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This event highlights CIFAL Miami's commitment, as part of the CIFAL Global Network, affiliated to UNITAR, to emergency preparedness and risk management. The seminar is a collaborative initiative with the participation of several CIFAL Centres and the CIFAL Global Network.Recognizing the strategic role that a country's points of entry play during emergencies, CIFAL Miami ha...
On 9 December 2015, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2250 - its first-ever resolution on Youth, Peace and Security - thereby recognising the importance of the positive contributions that young people are making for the maintenance and promotion of international peace and security. Furthermore, it affirmed the important role that youth need to assume in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and called for the engagement of youth as partners and leaders at all levels of decision-making and peacebuilding processes. Since then, progress stud...
From 28 February to 25 March 2011, participants from all over the world are invited to attend this four week online course, to be delivered via UNITAR’s e-learning platform. Last year more than 100 participants coming from 54 different countries attended this e-learning course. During the evaluation 91 % of the respondents considered that the course was relevant for their job and that they would recommend it to their colleagues. As one participant exclaimed, “Everybody involved in an international conference should take this course!” (Testimonial from a participant of the…
Geneva 14 March 2011. The aftermath of the catastrophic quake and tsunami in Japan has mobilised unprecedented participation from social networks and crowd sourcing communities around the world. Satellite imagery released for free by major commercial satellite companies earlier this week revealed to the world the extent of the impact of the tsunami waves that hit the east coast of Japan on Friday 11 March. Japan is using various satellite sensors and is coping with the technical work necessary to turn this large amount of data into useful information for rescue and…
Spanish has become a priority language as regards the e-learning courses that UNITAR is offering to officials and professionals from developing countries and economies in transition. This year, the Public Finance and Trade programme will again offer a series of online courses in partnership with leading universities and training institutes in Latin America and Spain. These courses are designed to enhance the professional skills of public and private sector participants, and to promote the sharing of knowledge and experiences through UNITAR’s Virtual Learning Environment.…
2 April, Geneva, Switzerland - Professor Anne Glover holds an important position at the European Commission: she is the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the Commission. Her office was established in 2011 by Mr Barroso with the mandate to provide analysis and independent expert opinions, advise on novel science, technology and innovation issues arising both in the context of the EU and internationally, and to communicate the scientific values of the European Union and its member states.
Ms Glover, who is a biologist by training and had served as top…
22 November 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - “Citizen Cyberscience is a tremendous opportunity for scientists in developing regions, because it offers them valuable support from thousands of volunteers, and enhanced global exposure for their research. Projects like ForestWatchers in Brazil are trailblazing what we think will become a global trend”. These words by Francois Grey, Coordinator of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre - a partnership established by UNITAR, CERN and the University of Geneva - capture well one of the aspects driving the research of new applications…
16 January 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Arab countries part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have specific requirements in the area of emergency management and disaster risk reduction, including geographic information and satellite analysis. This is what emerged from discussions held in Riyadh in conjunction with the UNISDR-GCC Training Workshop on reducing and managing disaster risk (13-16 January 2013).
The event marked the first substantial step by Arab states in the region towards an organized approach to disaster risk reduction and the implementation of the…
Master’s in Development Policy for Afghan Government Officials
14 April 2015, Kabul, Afghanistan – Seventeen Government officials from the Afghan Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economics and the Office of the President attended a graduation ceremony held at the Ministry of Finance in Kabul, where they were presented with the academic degree certifying their completion of the Master’s Degree Programme on Development Policies and Practices (DPP). Speeches were delivered by Mr. Eklil Hakimi, Minister of Finance, Mr. Omar Zakhilwal, Senior Economic Advisor to the…
Workshop Kick-Starts Global Network of Trainers for an Inclusive Green Economy
17 October 2016, Turin, Italy - “At first I thought learning about green fiscal reform would be really dry, but with the right training approach it can actually be a lot of fun!” Ms. Donna King-Braithwaite, Environmental Education Officer at the Ministry of Environment and Drainage in Barbados acknowledged. Donna was one of the participants of the Training of Trainers for a Transition to an Inclusive Green Economy which took place within the frame of the Global Green Economy Academy organized…