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Building Capacities for Inclusive Green Economy through Collaboration with North-West University, South Africa
5 - 7 April, 2017, Potchefstroom, South Africa - “Many officials lack good understanding of what the Green Economy means in practice and in the context of their work. It will be very useful for them to have the concept linked to the key priorities and sectors in the country, as well as concrete measures and projects they are involved in.” – says Ms Najma Mohamed, National PAGE Coordinator in South Africa. To answer to demand for foundational training on green…
5 June, Geneva, Switzerland - UNOSAT has been investing in the development of live web-based maps capable of providing rapid and essential information for disaster prevention and emergency response and able to integrate crowd sourced data, photos and videos. UNOSAT experts believe that this type of integrated, near-real time products will constitute the backbone of future geospatial decision support systems.
This assumption seems corroborated by a recent exercise conducted in the European Union. The UNOSAT LIVE map integrating the ASIGN geo-tagging solution was…
N’Djamena, Chad, June 2012 - The largest UNOSAT capacity development project so far has formally begun operations in Chad in June after months of preparations involving the Swiss Development Cooperation and local partners in the country. The project, named "ResEAU: water resources mapping of Chad", is part of a visionary initiative by the Swiss government for which UNOSAT was selected as the expert team for implementing activities on the ground, along with other centres of excellence from Switzerland.
During the inaugural phase the first meeting of the Steering Committee…
11 February 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - Zimbabwe has been affected by heavy rains that resulted in deaths and displacement of people in parts of the country in early February. According to UN sources, damage to property is also important and the National Water Authority of Zimbabwe warned that the water level in dams across the country continues to rise.
UNOSAT was requested to help assess the extent of flood waters. To do so, the Team requested the triggering of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, resulting in the acquisition of satellite data that is…
The work of UNOSAT is widely known across the UN and its members states and appreciated by scores of humanitarian experts and responders in particular. Although the satellite programme has launched its humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service in 2003, its capacity has been boosted in more recent years by the evolution of technology and the greater availability and resolution of commercial satellite imagery. Today UNOSAT has doubled its team members and its capacity to respond to more requests more rapidly. In over ten years of work and more than 300 crises, UNOSAT analysts can…
02 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – The UNOSAT Team welcomed the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Mr Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who visited UNOSAT in the framework of his first official visit to CERN which hosts the UNOSAT computing centre.
Mr. Tokayev of Kazakhstan has been Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference on Disarmament since 2 May 2011. A career diplomat, he served from 1992 as Deputy Minister and later as First Deputy Minister for…
On 13 April 2010, the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNITAR and the Nonviolent Peaceforce took place at UNITAR’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR and Mr. Tim Wallis, Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, administrative offices in Minneapolis, USA, peace workers in conflict zones, and includes over 65 Member Organizations.
Initiated in 1999 at The Hague Appeal for Peace, the Nonviolent Peaceforce was constituted…
10 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - Fuelled by its data-in-hand strategy, UNOSAT’s production capability is growing steadily. The number of products, maps and analyses, rolled out by the Programme has been growing since 2009 with peaks in 2010 and 2011. In addition, UNOSAT’s efforts in research and innovation have produced integrated solutions (vehicle tracking and navigation) and novel approaches (collaborative mapping, web based damage assessment solutions).
To support its growth UNOSAT relies on know-how, equipment, and first of all dedicated people. The increase in…
Geoff Parcell, former Knowledge Management expert at BP and co-author of the best-seller Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations, offered some insights into how to effectively capture and share knowledge within an organization such as UNITAR on the occasion of UNITAR’s Brown-Bag Lunch on 6th March.
“Knowledge sharing works when people see value in it. Start by creating the right environment for people to share experience”
Knowledge sharing happens among the people when it’s of value to them, says Geoff Parcell. He…
CIFAL Bengaluru Successfully Launched School Feeding Programme
9 April 2017, Bengaluru, India – As part of CIFAL Bengaluru’s efforts and its partner the ACTS Groups of Institutions to contribute to advance Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which aims to combat hunger and malnutrition by 2030, the CIFAL Centre launched on 9 April the “School Feeding Programme: Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Children”.
Through this Programme, 120 children from Nirmala Vidyalaya School - located in the Rajendranagar slum in Bengaluru, received nutritious breakfast and lunch made out…