Displaying 831 - 840 of 1270
19 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - As the international community and the public celebrate today the World Humanitarian Day the crisis in the Horn of Africa continues to unfold as humanitarian agencies step up their response. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought is gripping much of the Horn of Africa and Somalia in particular. According to OCHA “this is the gravest food crisis in the world, and the situation is getting worse”. UNOSAT is working since July to help chart the extent of the emergency.
Since July UNOSAT has been tasked to…
In a constant effort to update information derived from high resolution satellite imagery regarding the impact of the Haiti quake, UNOSAT has released last night two new maps illustrating the situation of IDPs and the density of bridge and road obstacles in the capital city Port-au-Prince.
Since the inception of this emergency, UNOSAT has concentrated on specific high value mapping over Haiti due to the fact that general mapping has been offered by a number of other partner entities especially from Europe, some of which supported by the International Charter Space and…
From July 12-16, in Barcelona, Spain. UNITAR and UN-HABITAT came together with the other members of the Police Platform on Urban Development (PPUD) to offer the initiative’s first training seminar since its launch in November 2009. The first training seminar, titled “Improving the Policing Public Events in Urban Spaces, focused on training participants from various African countries, such as Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Each country had at least two participants representing both municipal or local government institutions and national policing departments to…
“Reduce the fear of migration by 50% until 2015”. Could this be a migration related Millennium Development Goal (MDG)? While it seems rather unlikely that the international community will agree on international targets when it comes to migration in the near future, it is clear that human mobility and the achievement of the MDGs are related. In view of the upcoming MDG Review Summit (20-22 September), UNITAR, together with IOM, UNFPA and the MacArthur Foundation, held an expert seminar on 2 September at UN Headquarters, to re-examine these inter-linkages.
The seminar…
The work done by UNOSAT at the height of the crisis in Kyrgyzstan has been used widely in human rights verifications. This confirms one of the early methodological innovations brought about by the UNOSAT team: prolonging the useful life of satellite derived information beyond the emergency phase.
In the case of Kyrgyzstan , Human Rights Watch has been benefitting from the high resolution imagery used by UNOSAT over cities affected by urban violence to discuss directly with survivors the details of events occurred during the violence outbreak. This underscores the power of…
Under this joint effort, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) will build upon the training resources (case studies and exercises) developed under the UNITAR administered project, Climate Change Capacity Development (C3D) to develop a joint module on vulnerability and impact assessment.
This new module will then be included as a new chapter into the UNEP Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) training manual that seeks to help build capacity for forward looking integrated environmental assessments and has among its target audience, facilitators who…
CIFAL Bengaluru Contributing to Empower Women
10 March 2017, Bengaluru, India – The Sustainable Development Goal 3 calls for ensuring health and well being for all, at every stage of life. Contributing to advancing the health of women, children and adolescents is certainly a priority for UNITAR’s affiliated training centre in India, CIFAL Bengaluru.
CIFAL Bengaluru hosted the workshop “SHE (Strong, Healthy, Elegant) – An event to celebrate women” with the objective of empowering women in Bengaluru through education and awareness.
The workshop included sessions to…
UNITAR Delivered Three Training Workshops for Saudi Diplomats in London, Moscow and Ottawa
6 Junly 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia started their 2017 collaboration with the successful implementation of three face-to-face workshops in three different countries for Saudi diplomats in April and May 2017. Starting a collaboration in 2005, UNITAR has organized numerous successful training events for Saudi Arabian diplomats, providing them with a unique learning environment and enhancing their knowledge and skills in…
Building Capacity for Sustainable Tourism Management in Coastal Destinations of Asia-Pacific
27-30 June 2017, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) in collaboration with United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC), the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and the Jeju Tourism Organization convened the workshop “Sustainable Tourism Management in Coastal Destinations of the Asia-Pacific Region”, in Jeju Island on 27-30 June.
Through the workshop, 21 representatives from central, state…
CIFAL Jeju holds a workshop on Sustainable Tourism Development
From 17 to 20 November 2015, CIFAL Jeju ran a three day workshop on “Sustainable Tourism Development: Policies for Delivering Social, Environmental and Economic Benefits in the Asia-Pacific Region”, in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
The workshop was organized in response to the need for a capacity building programme throughout the Asia-Pacific region,introducing tourism as a way of delivering not only economic benefits but also social and environmental benefits to the local people.
Fifteen…