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日本出身の長谷川晶子さんは、ジュニア・プロフェッショナル・オフィサー（JPO）として国連開発計画（UNDP）に着任し、様々なキャリアを経験しました。UNDP本部CFO（Chief Financial Officer）オフィスのプログラム・アナリストや、アフガニスタン事務所の財務部門長等を経て、直近ではUNDPバンコク地域事務所でオペレーション専門官としてアジア太平洋地域の各国事務所を支援するなど、幅広い経験を積みました。財務・オペレーション分野の豊富な経験を活かし、2025年1月に広島で開催された「平和構築・開発におけるグローバル人材育成事業」ミッドキャリア・コースに参加しました。本事業は日本の外務省が実施するもので、広島大学が受託し、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）の協力のもとで実施されています。より戦略的な役割への転換とキャリアのさらなる発展を見据え、自身にとってのリーダー像を明確にするために、晶子さんはこのミッドキャリア・コースに応募しました。本コースの修了後、晶子さんは世界銀行の予算管理担当官として、新たな仕事に挑戦しています。, 2025年8月、広島 —「平和構築・開発におけるグローバル人材育成事業のミッドキャリア・コースで経験した1週間は、とてもハードでしたが、充実していました。私のこれまでの経歴を見つめなおす貴重な機会となりまし...
2 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The largest ever opinion survey on climate change was carried out by UN CC:Learn partner UNDP in 2020 and showed that 64% of 1.2 million respondents think that climate change is a global emergency. The survey entitled "People's Climate Vote" covered 50 countries, reflecting a bit more than half of the world's population, and its results were analyzed by the University of Oxford. Over 500,000 respondents of the survey were under the age of 18 at the time of the poll, which made youth the biggest age group surveyed.
One of the survey'...
2 April 2024, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Jeju was established in 2010 through a collaboration between UNITAR and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, and the International Peace Foundation.
CIFAL Jeju’s mission is to deliver high-quality capacity-building programmes to help civil servants address complex challenges through innovative approaches and to empower local actors to advance towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. CIFAL Jeju seeks to support Jeju Province in its effor...
Considering the importance of the global automotive market and that a key component of the Safe Systems Approach is Safe Vehicles, legislation, policies, and strategies related to promoting safer vehicles are essential for improving road safety globally. The global motor vehicle fleet (including passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles) currently exceeds 2 billion vehicles and is likely to reach 3.5 billion by 2031. Small to mid-size fleets account for roughly 88% of all commercial fleets on the road.Companies, organizations, and governments own and manage ...
UNITAR and Prosperity Alliance Shenzhen (Greater Bay Area) held an inaugural meeting to begin working together to advance sustainable innovation.The two entities will create a global platform for knowledge exchange and promote innovative solutions using AI technology.Shenzhen hosts innovative examples of AI use for rural empowerment and revitalization.Such good practices will be incorporated into new video-based training modules, which will be disseminated through UNITAR's training platforms and networks., 24 June 2025, Shenzhen, China – UNITAR Prosperity Alliance Shenzhen ...
UNOSAT is gradually integrating collaborative mapping and crowd sourcing into its work. In the case of the floods in Colombia, UNOSAT is reaching out to disaster managers and field staff in the country to assist with validation of the flood extent analysis and by sending in geographic position tagged photos. The application being used for this operation has been developed within the EU funded GEO-PICTURES project in which UNOSAT works with AnusR Technologies of Norway and numerous other partners....
17 July 2019, Jeju, Republic of Korea - The International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) and in Newcastle (CIFAL Newcastle) hosted the 14th Youth Workshop on Engagement for Sustainable Consumption and Production from 10 to 12 July 2019 in Jeju, South Korea. The workshop gathered students from different backgrounds and nationalities including 20 students from the University of Newcastle in Australia, and 27 Korean and International students enrolled in various universities in the Republic of Korea.
The main goal of this workshop was to rai...
国連ユニタールイラク奨学プログラムは、イラクの社会経済の安定に貢献する地域に根ざしたビジネスの発展と強化のために、若手起業家の育成とリーダーシップスキルの向上を図る研修プログラムです。本研修の目的は、ハードスキル（理論・手法・ツールなど）とソフトスキル（自己および対人関係に関するスキル）の両方を強化することです。ハードスキルとしては、事業立ち上げや実施に必要な計画立案、ビジネス／収益戦略、ニーズアセスメント、営業・マーケティング戦略、モニタリング評価の手法などについて学びます。ソフトスキルとしては、事業運営に必要なチームワーク戦略、コミュニケーションやプレゼン、リーダーシップ、課題の特定と解決に必要なスキルなどを学んでいきます。
本プログラムは2016年度に開始し、毎年約6か月間に海外で2回、イラクで2回ワークショップを行い、起業に必要なスキル、プロジェクト運営やリーダーシップスキルを学び、若手起業家の育成を図ります。研修生は各ワークショップで課題を与えられ、次のワークショップまでに課題を仕上げ、メンターやイラク在住のコーチのアドバイスを受けながら、最終的には個人の事業計画書を作成します。2017年度から、優秀な研修卒業生はコーチとして次年度の研修にボランティアで参加できる制度を設け、研修生をサポートしています。, 本プログラムは開始以来、...
6 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - New digital technologies have had, and will continue to have, a profound impact on both the practice and content matter of diplomacy. The digital ecosystem in which diplomats operate offers new opportunities, especially for smaller states, but also challenges traditional activities and organisational structures. At the same time, cyberspace itself is throwing up a series of issues, range ranging from Internet governance to cyber security, which require diplomacy. This on line course focuses on both digital diplomacy (the use of digital too...
8 April 2024, Victoria, Canada - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in the City of Victoria was established in 2022 as a collaboration between UNITAR and the University of Victoria to deliver training activities and research that build on UVic's commitments to the UN SDGs and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
CIFAL Victoria seeks to connect Victoria and the surrounding region with the global community through international knowledge-sharing and partnerships, with a focus on four key themes:
Oceans, climat...