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Geneva, 22 March 2014, in celebration of World Water Day, UNOSAT is thrilled to announce the release of its first hydrogeological map of Chad, produced in the context of the RésEAU project – Cartography of water resources in Chad
As highlighted by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon: “Water holds the key to sustainable development”. This is particularly true in Chad, which faces extreme weather conditions, varying between a very arid climate in the North and floodplains in the South. Better knowledge of groundwater resources and their interaction with rainwater is…
UNITAR Delivers Workshop with Columbia Law School on Women’s Leadership & Negotiation Skills
23 March 2018, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted the first in the three-part workshop series on conflict resolution, mediation, and multilateral negotiation. This series is sponsored by the Government of Sweden under the programme “Leveling the Playing Field”. This workshop focused on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal of gender equality.
The event began with…
Winners Awarded for Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017
23 May 2017, Medan, Indonesia - The winning participants of the Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change (YLCCC) 2017 were awarded with the “Tribal Camp Award” and the “Team of the Year Award”. The YLCCC initiative – organized by UN CC:Learn, UNESCO Office, Jakarta, The Climate Reality project Indonesia, and Youth for Climate Change Indonesia, with the support from the Office of the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change – aimed at empowering 150 Indonesian students to take…
UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme Workshop II Held Successfully
28 January 2016, Hiroshima, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has successfully concluded Workshop II of the UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme, which was held in Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan between 20-26 January 2016. The Fellowship is a five-month long capacity building training programme, and twenty South Sudanese participants (known as Fellows), from a range of government and civil society organizations in South Sudan, visited Japan to attend the second of the three Fellowship workshops.…
Innovative capacity development approach combines technology, mapping and academic knowledge in Chad
Since earlier in 2012 UNITAR/UNOSAT and the Swiss Development Cooperation are engaged in implementing a water management and capacity development project in Chad. This project, also known with its francophone name of “ResEAU”, has the ambitious aim of strengthening national capacity in the area of water resources by using mapping combined with capacity development techniques tailored to the local requirements and designed together with Swiss and Chadian partners.
In Switzerland, UNOSAT experts work together with the Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics at…
UNITAR Hiroshima Holds Workshop II for Afghanistan Fellowship Programme in Abu Dhabi
4 September 2015, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has successfully concluded Workshop II of its signature Afghanistan Fellowship Programme. Held between 31 August and 4 September 2015, the Workshop examined Organisational Needs Assessment, Project Planning and Design, as well as Team Development and Management. The Workshop also progressed the team projects, which focus on problems that organizations in Afghanistan are currently facing, to the next stage…
広島県内およびアジア地域在住の15歳~28歳の若者を対象に、国連ユニタール「SDGsとデジタル未来:AIとデジタルストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修の参加者を募集します。本研修では、若いチェンジメーカーがAIやデジタル技術を活用したインパクトのあるストーリーテリングの方法を学びます。本研修は2025年6月に開始し、約5ヶ月間にわたって実施されます。本研修は、広島県および広島市の支援と日本マイクロソフト株式会社の協力のもと、国連ユニタール広島事務所が運営します。応募締切りは、2025年6月2日(日本時間 17時)です。, 2025年5月2日、広島 – 国連訓練調査研究所(ユニタール)広島事務所は、国連ユニタール「SDGsとデジタル未来:AIとデジタルストーリーテリングで切り拓く変革」研修の参加者を、広島県内およびアジア地域の若者を対象に募集します。この研修では、若いチェンジメーカーがAIを含むデジタルメディアを活用したストーリーテリングプラットフォームを使い、社会にインパクトを与えるストーリーを作成する方法を学びます。研修は、2025年6月7日に開始し、約5か月間にわたって実施されます。応募締切りは、2025年6月2日(日本時間 17時)です。参加者の募集人数は、広島県在住の若者約10名と、その他アジ...
The online training phase (phase one) of the trans-regional capacity building programme for public debt auditors in supreme audit institutions (SAIs) which the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) is undertaking in cooperation with UNITAR and UNCTAD was recently concluded. Thirty-one (31) SAI audit teams (89 persons in total) from Africa, Asia and Europe have been trained in 10 online sessions organized by UNITAR including online virtual discussions for networking and information exchange among participating SAIs.
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10 November 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - International experts agree that Cyclone Haiyan that hit the Philippines on 9 November was "probably the most intense and strongest storm of this type to make landfall". While cyclones of this intensity have occurred before, they usually lose part of their strength by the time they reach shore. Not Haiyan, which swept through six central Philippine islands packing winds of up to 270 Km/h and causing immense damage and probably unprecedented loss of life.
Official estimates by the Philippines government speak of over 600,000 people…
UNITAR Afghanistan Fellowship Programme 2015 Successfully Concludes
20 November 2015, Hiroshima, Japan – Workshop IV of the UNITAR Afghanistan Fellowship Programme finished today in Hiroshima, marking the conclusion of the 2015 Fellowship Cycle. Held between 16 and 20 November, the workshop was the culmination of the seven-month-long Fellowship Programme which aims at capacity building and enhancing the leadership, management and professional skills of a core group of senior government officials, academics and practitioners from Afghanistan. The 2015 cycle saw 56 trainees…