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14 April 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has concluded a four-day training on key leadership skills for Geneva's diplomatic community at the Palais des Nations, bringing together 31 participants from over 25 member states. This Collaborative Leadership Workshop consisted of 7 sessions, led by world-class experts, including Ambassadors, all working to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead engagingly and collaboratively.
The workshop began with opening remarks by Mr Nikhil Seth, UN ASG and UNITAR Executive Director, who stated, “We need each o...
Democracy has often been considered as one of the durable systems for building sustainable peaceful and inclusive societies, especially societies experiencing deep socio-political divisions. In most countries undergoing political transitions, these transitions may be triggered by various factors in a bid to change the prevailing political and constitutional order.
Lately, various political transitions have occurred following popular revolutions including the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt or military coups that happened in Haiti, Mali, and Myanmar. The end of ci...
Beneficiary: Lu’isa Uai Taunga
Title: Officer, National Emergency Management Office, Tonga
Training: UNITAR Hiroshima Disaster Risk Reduction Training
“We are vulnerable to tropical cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, drought and flash floods and it’s an all year cycle,” said Lu’isa Uai Taunga, a citizen of the Kingdom of Tonga, who participated in the UNITAR Disaster Risk Reduction Training which concluded in November 2017., Lu’isa works as an officer with the Tongan organization NEMO, which stands for National Emergency Management Office. ...
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...
12 March 2019, New York, United States - United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York office recently partnered and signed an agreement with University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business to develop a new three-part e-learning learning certificate programme on “Leading with Ethics in Achieving the SDGs” for the summer and fall semester.
“Leading with Ethics in Achieving the SDGs” is an online course that will assist decision-makers in fostering the character traits and developing the durable skills necessary for SDG Leadership. Usin...
22-23 April 2019, Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghanistan is full of opportunities for dedicated young professionals looking to help their country. In particular, women know that it’s time for them to take the lead and ensure that development initiatives extend to every single member of their communities.
The UNITAR Women’s Leadership Programme for Afghanistan: the SDGs, Action Plans and Governance offers tools and expertise that will help them to do so.
One of the participants, Ms. Masouma Rasouli, Deputy at the Women Empowerment for New Horizon Organisation NGO, is excited ab...
09 September 2019, Bangkok, Thailand – UNOSAT delivered a training on geospatial big data applications for sustainable development to enhance the capacity of the Member States of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) together with regional partners, from 5 to 9 August 2019, at the Space Krenovation Park (SKP) in Chonburi province of Thailand. The training course intended to provide participants with a theoretical understanding of geospatial big data and its analysis and applications for problem identification, assessment and decision support towards achieving SDGs....
23 November 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shown the degree to which vulnerability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) characterize our world today. Higher levels of resilience and adaptability on the individual and organizational level are needed and can only be achieved through rapid development and implementation of new skills and innovative organizational strategies. In light of this, UNITAR and the Hertie School Executive Education signed a Letter of Agreement to empower growth-oriented professionals working in m...
11 December 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - On three dates in December 2020 (7, 10, 11), UNITAR and UN Statistics Division hosted an online workshop for the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on the uses and applications of the updated StaTact online tool for resolving short-term tactical data problems.
The workshop was action-oriented, designed to apply StaTact as a pilot to a number of PSA priorities and develop realistic action plans that the PSA could then go on to implement. Prior to the workshop, the PSA submitted some real-life problems they were facing, and pa...