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The G7 Summit was held in Hiroshima, Japan, from 19 May to 21 May 2023.
Keiko Ogura, a hibakusha (survivor of the atomic bomb), spoke to the G7 leaders during the Summit.
She believes coming to Hiroshima gives people the opportunity to reflect and explore what they can do to bring about peace.
Ms. Ogura values UNITAR’s role in promoting peace through education.
UNITAR Hiroshima Office organized a pre-G7 Summit youth event and participated in activities coinciding with the G7 Summit.
The three events highlighted young people’s and women’s innovative actions for peace...
Crowd4SDG is a research project promoting citizen science initiatives with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Citizen science is a significant resource as it can both produce social innovation to achieve the SDGs and provide non-traditional data to track the progress made towards them. The project is steered by a consortium of partners with UNITAR responsible for enhancing policy relevance and usability of the citizen science data.
For its second GEAR (Gather, Evaluate, Accelerate and Refine) cycle, Crowd4SDG is supporting projects centred on Climat...
12 October 2021, New York, USA - United Nations for Training and Research office in New York, in collaboration with Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, launched part 1 of Looking Towards COP 26: Sustainable Agriculture, Labor Rights and Just Transitions in Accelerating SDG Implementation. The course focuses on several SDGs like SDG 2 Zero Hunger, SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and SDG 13 Climate Action and was attended by approximately 61 participants.
Mr. Marco A. Suazo, head of UNITAR office in New York, welcomed the panelist and participants...
Hayder Maala, alumnus of the UNITAR Iraq Fellowship Programme, believes entrepreneurship training for young people will help Iraq’s development.
After attending a UNITAR training of trainers programme, Hayder started a youth development NGO and a startup incubator, and became a coach for UNITAR programmes.
He is now managing the digital/frontier technologies programme for UNITAR’s Division for Prosperity.
Applications are being accepted for the Leading Inclusive 4IR: Empowering Women in Iraq for the Future of Work through Digital Reskilling programme.
, 22 October 2021...
UNITAR ran its online training programme Social entrepreneurship training programme for women in the Horn of Africa from October 2020 to June 2021.
247 women entrepreneurs from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan joined the programme.
Participants developed entrepreneurial skills to address local needs through innovative and creative business solutions.
, 26 October 2021, Hiroshima, Japan - The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening millions of jobs and livelihood opportunities around the world, exacerbating youth unemployment, poverty, and social inequality.
Yet, these adve...
07 March 2025, New York, United States – In February 2025, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, successfully hosted the eighth iteration of the Women in International Security and Cyberspace Fellowship. Held at the United Nations Headquarters and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, the programme brought together 38 women from developing countries to prepare them for the upcoming tenth substantive sessio...
Today, the world is home to 1.9 billion young people between the ages of 10 to 24. While these young people face unprecedented challenges, they can also be a driving force for sustainable development and peace. From ending extreme poverty to protecting our oceans, we need a generation of young leaders who are meaningfully engaged with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are working to achieve them. Each year since 2010, the UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme has been training around 30 Hiroshima high school students to deepen their understanding of gl...
An Independent Evaluation of the “Global Network of International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL)” was published in February 2020. Using a mixed-methods approach that was gender and human rights sensitive, the evaluation included a review of documents, multiple surveys and interviews. The evaluation faced several limitations including the relatively low survey response rate, few narrative reports, absence of financial information (expenditure) and budget limitations with no site visits being organized., Relevance
The evaluation found the thematic areas...
The project aims to support the implementation of the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Policing by adopting an integrated approach to the training of Individual Police Officers and Formed Police Units prior to the deployment to MINUSMA, MONUSCO and MINUSCA peace missions. Specifically, the project aims to contribute to improving the operational performance of UN peace operations in complex and high-risk environments, to strengthen the role of female officers and to improve policing functions at the national level.
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess t...
22 July 2022, Rome, Italy – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Luiss Guido Carli (Luiss) hosted the closing session of the jointly created Executive Master in Global Public Diplomacy and Sustainable Development in Rome. Attended by the participants of the Master Programme as well as by UNITAR and Luiss staff, the successful closing session marked the end of the equally fruitful Programme. Closing remarks to formalize the conclusion of the event were also delivered by H.E. Mr. Fabrizio Lobasso, Deputy Director for the Subsaharian Africa Divis...