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28 July 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - On Friday 25 July, as the conflict in Gaza intensified, UNOSAT analysts prepared to spend another weekend working on incoming high-resolution satellite images of the areas concerned by the hostilities. Their job: assess from space the level of damage to civilian structures and community facilities in Gaza to help UNRWA and OCHA determine the humanitarian situation and the needs of the civilian populations caught in the conflict zone. UNRWA is the United Nations agency established in 1949 to provide assistance and protection to a…
Promoting a Dialogue about City-to-City Decentralized Cooperation
27 November 2014, Washington DC, USA – With the objective of looking at some best cooperation practices within the United Nations System and to support collaboration among the cities of the South, UNITAR’s Decentralized Cooperation Programme (DCP) jointly with the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP) and the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) hosted the Forum titled “City-to-City Decentralized Cooperation in the Framework of Triangular and South-South Cooperation” at the Organization…
CommonSensing: Building Climate Resilience in Small Island Developing States
08 February 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – Britain´s Science Minister Sam Gyimah today announced the launch of 10 new projects to improve disaster response and tropical disease control using space-based technologies.
The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) uses space expertise to deliver innovative solutions to real world problems across the globe. This notably helps some of the world’s poorest countries combat the effects of climate change by developing mitigation and…
CIFAL Philippines Concluded Forum on the Role of the Philippines in the Association of South East Asian Nations
8 February 2018, Quezon City, Philippines - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in the Philippines (CIFAL Philippines) and the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Asian Center jointly organized the forum “The Role and Position of the Philippines in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)”, taking place on 8 February 2018 at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines.
The forum was conducted in partnership…
CIFAL Jeju hosted International Workshop on Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
20 - 23 March 2018, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province convened the workshop “Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific region” from the 20th to the 23rd of March. The workshop broight together 32 participants representing…
For this event, UNOSAT requested the activation of the « International Charter Space and Major Disasters ». This arrangement between several national space agencies and ESA provides free satellite data for the realisation of geospatial products to be used in humanitarian and emergency response operations following natural and technological disasters.
UNOSAT has benefited from this mechanism since 2003 and created hundreds of maps based on Charter data for the benefit of a large number of humanitarian and development agencies of the UN involved in responding to large disa...
The Multilateral Diplomacy Programme will be offering a new set of e-Learning courses in the fall of 2010, including: Multilateral Conferences and Diplomacy (13 September – 8 October); Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiation (4 – 29 October); Chairing Meetings and International Conferences (18 – 29 October), and much more!
Please see the list of e-Learning courses on our website.
Developed by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), UNITAR and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) - Bangalore
Deadline for application: 7 March 2010
Read more on the Certificate of Advanced Studies here.
The 2009 Report of the UN Secretary-General to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on UNITAR is now available. The Report highlitghts the major strategic reforms undertaken by the Institute and recommends that UNITAR plays an important role in the overall effort to ensure more efficient service provision for training and research in the United Nations System.
To view the report, please click here