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Nobel Prize winners Martti Ahtisaari and José Ramos-Horta on prerequisites for peace
Geneva, 14 November 2013. Nobel Prizes winners Martti Ahtisaari of Finland (2008) and José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste (1996) shared their recipes for peace while participating yesterday in the 8th edition of the UNOG-UNITAR Geneva Lecture Series. The event was an opportunity for a Geneva-based audience to learn from the guest speakers’ knowledge rooted in diverse personal experiences but largely complementary in nature. It featured short lectures by the two peacemakers followed by a debate...
Professor Sarah Anyang Agbor (Cameroon) has joined the advisory board of the UNITAR Division for Prosperity.
Professor Agbor has extensive expertise in education and training, especially in the African continent.
She is Vice President of the Africa Board, Forum for African Women Educationalists, and outgoing African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology.
Her priority is to influence regional ecosystems of entrepreneurship, innovation and policymaking that allow youths, women and the marginalized to access quality education and training.
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“Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Food Security and Economic Development in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon” is a training programme for aspiring and established entrepreneurs in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon who aspire to address urgent local and regional food insecurity through innovative solutions, including climate-smart agricultural and aquacultural practices. Open to entrepreneurs, leaders, and business people from micro, small, and medium enterprises in the three countries, the programme aims to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and network they need ...
29 July 2025, Hiroshima, Japan – On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with Hiroshima Prefectural Government and the Hiroshima Organization for Peace (HOPe), will hold a youth dialogue for international peace on 6 August 2025. The event will be publicly livestreamed in Japanese and English.At this event, “80 years after the Hiroshima A-bomb: Youth Messages from Hiroshima to the World - Roadmaps toward a World without Nuclear Weapons and Sustainable Peace”, UNITAR You...
The UNITAR Iraq Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training Programme is a fellowship initiative that provides youth with skills in entrepreneurship and leadership to develop or strengthen local businesses that contribute to social and economic stability in their country. The programme objective is to equip the youth with hard skills to enhance project and business development and implementation (i.e., business planning, business and revenue models, needs assessment, sales, marketing and innovation strategies, and monitoring and evaluation techniques), and soft skills to...
Learn more about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s programmes and activities from late November 2024 to February 2025. Past issues in August 2024 and November 2024., United Nations Secretary-General Appoints Michelle Gyles-McDonnough as Executive Director of UNITAR UNITAR welcomes Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough of Jamaica as its new Executive Director. She succeeds Mr. Nikhil Seth of India, effective 22 February 2025. With over 30 years of experience in sustainable development, policy advocacy, international trade, international relations and organizational cha...
Approximately 30 per cent of the global burden of disease is caused by conditions that can be treated by surgery or that require the direct care of a surgeon. Each year, total surgically avertable deaths alone are approximately six times greater than total deaths from HIV, malaria, and TB combined. Yet, 5 million people worldwide do not have access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care. As part of the Global Surgery initiative’s work conducted by the Division for People, the National Surgical Obstetric Anaesthesia Planning (NSOAP) manual was published in colla...
UNITAR invites young entrepreneurs in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon to apply to the Great Ideas Space 2022: Entrepreneurship for Public Health and COVID-19 Recovery.
The online programme will train participants on knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship and public health.
Top performers will progress to an extended phase of the programme with in-depth training and mentoring. They will also be invited to a regional and/or Japan-based workshop.
The deadline for the application is on 28 August 2022 (extended from 15 August).
, 25 July 2022, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR Divi...
27 September 2024, New York, USA - UNITAR in collaboration with international NGO Together for Safer Roads (TSR) and with the support of AB InBev, launched the “Fleet Safety Global Training Programme” aimed at delivering joint training designed to empower small to mid-size fleets to improve their safety systems.This Training Programme is based on the premise that companies, organizations, and governments own and manage vehicles and ensuring the safety of drivers of those vehicles and all other drivers they encounter on the road requires training and awareness.&nbs...
UNITAR participated in Shanghai Climate Week 2024, held from 22 to 24 April 2024.
The Prosperity Alliance Shanghai Climate Week Sustainable Research and Innovation Lab was launched as a joint initiative by UNITAR and Shanghai Climate Week. The Lab will host learning opportunities and research initiatives in China and globally.
UNITAR reaffirms our continued commitment to climate issues, innovation and sustainable development through training.
, 10 June 2024, Shanghai, China – From 22 to 24 April 2024, UNITAR participated in Shanghai Climate Week 2024 to share global ins...