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9 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland. On 17-21 March 2025, a workshop was organized by the UN Country Team in Cameroon with support from UNITAR to build the capacities of UNCT members on systems thinking and strategic foresight. The training aimed to enable UNCT to undertake the work on UN Country Analysis in an innovative manner, providing an approach that is more forward-looking, system-based and people-centered. 53 UNCT members took part in this five-day training programme opened by UN Resident Coordinator Mr. Issa Sanogo. Throughout the workshop, participants worked joi...
18 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland. The world is facing radical economic transformations driven, on the one hand, by opportunities offered by green and digital technologies and, on the other, by significant demographic changes, decreasing natural resource availabilities, increasing pressures from societies turning towards more responsible consumption patterns, and regulations to promote ESG compliance or encourage SDG reporting, and to pro-actively manage digital transformations. As such, one of the key needs becomes the upskilling and reskilling of government agencies, a...
国連ユニタールは、スーダン人受講生300名を迎え、「スーダン緊急支援：組織能力と生計向上を通じた社会経済の安定促進」研修事業を開始しました。この事業は、受講生がデジタル技術や起業家精神を身につけることを目的としています。この事業は、食料不安と貧困に対処するため、農業ビジネスとイノベーション分野における零細・中小企業の設立に焦点を当て、デジタル技術と起業家精神、気候変動に強いビジネス手法を習得することを目的としています。この研修事業は、日本政府の支援を受けて実施されています。, 2024年10月21日、ジュネーブ、スイス - 国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は、「スーダン緊急支援：組織能力と生計向上を通じた社会経済の安定促進」研修事業を実施しています。この事業は、スーダンで進行中の人道的・経済的危機に対処するため、避難民がマーケティングのスキルを習得し、経済復興をもたらす起業家精神を促進することを目的としています。この事業は、日本政府の支援を受けて、特に国内避難民や近隣諸国のスーダン避難民など熱意あるスーダン国民300名を対象として、2024年8月から2025年2月までの期間で実施されています。, スーダンは長年、深刻な経済混乱に直面しており、2023年4月に始まった人道危機によってこの状況はさらに悪化しました。国連難民高等弁務官事務所（UNH...
On 22 November, 29 changemakers from 11 Pacific small island countries completed the second phase of the UNITAR “Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response to Climate Crises through Early Warning Systems” programme, which brought them to Japan to learn about early warning system tools and approaches to reduce disaster risks.During the study tour, the participants visited Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kobe, and the Greater Tokyo Area and engaged in interactive expert lectures and study visits, during which they learned firsthand about the practices, technologies, and research for effective ear...
UNITAR, Unilever’s Sunlight and Absa Bank Kenya will run a new joint programme, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
The online programme will train 5,000 women entrepreneurs in Kenya by June 2022 to develop their social or for-profit businesses.
Applications are now welcome from women business owners in Kenya who aspire to make a positive impact on their communities.
, October 2021, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sunlight (a home care brand under Unilever Kenya Limit...
26 November 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – On Thursday 25th November, the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), hosted an online event to celebrate 20 years of operations. The great discussions and testimonies from partners only scratched the surface of the tremendous work achieved so far, and what is to come.
“I am pleased to congratulate UNOSAT – the United Nations Satellite Centre – on 20 years of outstanding support to the United Nations System and its Member States. […] Satellite imagery and analysis is an essential resource for the United Nations and the broad...
16 June 2022, Geneva, Switzerland– The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) announced a collaboration with NVIDIA on training and research activities to promote the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth Observation activities in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with an initial emphasis on disaster management.
This cooperation framework allows UNOSAT and NVIDIA to benefit from their respective facilities, resources, and domain experience. The collaboration has two initial priorities: 1) integration of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform w...
22 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR is pleased to announce the launch of the new partnership with the Geneva Macro Labs, a Geneva-based Think and Do Tank with the goal to shape international collaboration, build capacity and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. , To launch the partnership, UNITAR and the Geneva Macro Labs hosted a joint online talk on Diplomacy in Cyberspace: The new battleground of geopolitics on March 3rd, discussing why digital diplomacy is too important to leave to technicians or intelligence officers only. The webi...
17 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - As a first step to future cooperation, UNITAR and the International Ocean Institute (IOI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The two institutions formally agreed to seek mutually beneficial cooperation to fulfil their respective missions. UNITAR and the IOI recognized their common purpose as high standing learning, training, and capacity-building institutes. As such, the two organizations decided to actively collaborate in enhancing essential capacities of future leaders of developing countries for environmentally conscious ...
15 January 2018, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Claremont Evaluation Centre – New York (Claremont Graduate University) launched the second phase of the Executive Leadership Programme in Evaluation and the Sustainable Development Goals, consisting of a week-long learning series that examines the power of evaluation and its various applications and how, through successful implementation, it can create a framework for achieving the SDGs.
Opening remarks were delivered on behalf of Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhi...