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Established in 2022, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Qatar (CIFAL Doha) was created in collaboration with The Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) to create a framework enabling the permanent exchange of experience and expertise in the Gulf Region through strategic partnerships and training activities.CIFAL Doha's objective is to provide a range of learning opportunities and facilitate knowledge sharing between public servants and leaders of the Gulf Region, to strengthen capacities, improve the decision-making process and encoura...
Born in 1961, Ziad Obeidat has lived most of his life in Jordan, where he now holds the position of Director of Development Plans & Programs at the Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation. He first began working for the government of Jordan in 1993, less than four years after the country’s first free elections. Since that time, his political career has continued to rise, while his country has gone through many changes.
In the first ten years of the new millennium Jordan's economy grew steadily, but the country was later faced with a number of challenges…
The Enhanced Training for Uniformed Medical Personnel Deploying to UN Peace Operations project ran from 24 December 2021 to 30 January 2024 and was extended to 30 June 2024. It was funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). It aimed at improving the performance of UN peace operations in increasingly complex and high-risk environments by enhancing the physical and mental well-being of female and male military and police personnel deployed to UN peacekeeping missions through strengthening the capabiliti...
Here’s what the UNITAR Division for Prosperity has been working on, from late June to August 2025. 日本語はこちらから , UNITAR Executive Director Michelle Gyles-McDonnough Visits Japan From 3 to 8 August 2025, Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Assistant Secretary-General and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Executive Director, visited Japan for the first time since taking office in February. She spoke in UN Pavilion events at Expo 2025 Osaka, attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony and moderated a youth dialogue with local p...
Vision
We support institutions to effectively contribute to the SDGs through building capacities, changing behaviours and transforming mindsets.
Mission
Using our extensive toolbox and expertise in learning, facilitation and process design methodologies, we co-create tailor-made solutions for the specific needs of our partners.,
We design and deliver needs-based learning experiences for better performance.
We create and facilitate gatherings that inspire, connect and drive results.
We support organisations by building internal capacities and structures to achieve exc...
25 September 2018, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Shanghai (CIFAL Shanghai) in partnership with the Ministry of Commerce of China hosted the seminar “Information security technology for developing countries” on the 25 September 2018 in Shanghai.
The increase of exchanging sensible information around the globe is one of the visible consequences of digital business. In an ever more digitalized world, it is important to pay special attention to the positive outcomes of technology and its vital role in th...
The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) brings together nine UN and multilateral organizations that aim to strengthen international cooperation on chemical safety and improve coordination of their own chemicals-related policies and activities through the IOMC.
The IOMC Toolbox for Decision Making in Chemicals Management Project is a logical response to increasing needs and demands from policymakers working within developing and transitional economies. The toolbox was developed to provide an easy, web-based access to a consolidated libr...
7 February 2017, Hiroshima, Japan - The final workshop of the 2016-2017 UNITAR Hiroshima Training Programme on Anti-Corruption for North Africa successfully concluded in Tokyo on Friday. Supported by the People of Japan, the workshop was held in Hiroshima and Tokyo between 30 January and 3 February 2017. Twenty-four (24) participants from government and civil society organizations came from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
The first workshop was held in Senegal and covered anti-corruption’s key concepts, norms and practices. During the final workshop in Japan, the partic...
During the ongoing conflict in Syria, UNITAR’s UNOSAT programme has been supporting the humanitarian community with satellite imagery derived analysis. While conducting damage assessments to civilian infrastructure in Syria, it became evident that there was also wide-spread destruction and damage to cultural heritage locations. This report is the result of a dedicated effort to assess the current status of 18 larger cultural heritage areas, in which 290 locations were found to have been affected during the last three years, of which 24 destroyed and 104 severely damaged.
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19 November 2018, Mexico City, Mexico – UNITAR organized a training workshop on Conference Diplomacy and Multilateral Negotiations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. This was an interactive and practical workshop designed to train the participants’ skills in various activities, using current global issues and debates as examples for simulations.
The first day’s training activities were led by Mr. Rabih El-Haddad (Director, Division for Multilateral Diplomacy, UNITAR). The first activity was a simulation exercise on oil pricing, in which participants were ...