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In 2016, a series of four comic books was completed: after “Nosotros” I & II (Us), “Soñando el Futuro” (Dreaming the Future) and “De Regreso a la Vida” (Back to Life) were published. Called “Pintando el Futuro”, this project was implemented by UNITAR in partnership with the Foundation Ciudad Don Bosco in Medellín and with the support of the Institute of the German Foreign Office. The project that started in 2014 aimed to both contribute to the peace building process in Colombia and help youth victims of armed conflict to restore their individual, familial, and social…
Dr. Alba Ávila is an Associate Professor at the University of the Andes in Colombia, who specializes in teaching and research in nanotechnologies. She was one of the experts in nanotechnologies, who helped organize and chair sessions at the Nanosafety Regional Workshop for the Latin America and Caribbean Region, which was held in Bogotá, Colombia in 2015.
Nanotechnology is a growing industry poised to create an array of economic and social benefits worldwide, while potential risks to…
Sonath Abdul Sattarさんは、2004年にインド洋大津波がモルディブ共和国を襲ったときのことを思い起こします。
私たちは津波というものをまったく知らず、ただの大きな波だと思っていました。そして、ことの成り行きをただ見守っていたのです。海水が外海に引いていくと、環礁が見えるようになりました。まもなく、大津波が押し寄せ、死んだ魚やすべてのものが運ばれてきました。まったく津波に警戒していなかったのです。
インド洋大津波の発生は、Sonathさんの人生の中できわめて重要な瞬間でした。その後、Sonathさんは母国の救援のためにボランティア活動を始めました。そして、防災管理分野でのキャリアをスタートさせました。このキャリアパスが最終的に、Sonathさんを国連ユニタールの津波防災に関する女性のリーダーシップ研修への参加と来日に導きました。, モルディブ共和国は、世界で最も低地にある小島嶼開発途上国であり、地表からの平均の高さは海抜わずか1.5メートルです。気候変動と海面上昇により、島全体は以前より大きな海面のうねり、強風、豪雨にさらされています。災害への備えは、国の存続や人々の生存のために不可欠です。
Sonathさんは、2017年の国連ユニタール「津波防災に関する女性のリーダーシップ研修」に参加しました。現在は日本で学んだこ...
Name: Hana Ali
Title: Entrepreneur
Country: Iraq/UK/Germany
Fellowship: UNITAR COVID-19 Response & Recovery Programme: Mobilizing Resilient Social Entrepreneurs to Address Food Insecurity and Unemployment for Youth in Iraq
“I once heard a really fantastic quote. It goes a little something like this: ‘take one small step every day, and at the end of the year you will have taken 365 steps”, says Hana Ali with smiley eyes. Based on her experience, consistency is the best advice she can give to anyone willing to join the entrepreneurial world. “A lot of people feel discour...
Title: Auxiliary Police Officer
Country: Canada
Course: Management Practices for Safer Roads: Toolkit
In 2002, the town of Drachten, in the Netherlands, removed nearly all traffic lights and road marks in the name of road safety. The aim was to reduce accidents and improve the town’s quality. The paradoxical experiment worked, and despite increases in traffic volumes, accident numbers fell from 8.3 per year between 1994 and 2002 to an average of just one per year in 2005.
If traffic signs are supposed to make traffic flow safer, how did the experiment work? The answer lie...
Lucretia Dreyer, a South African disability inclusion advocate, completed the 2023 UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme.The programme showed Lucretia the significant potential of assistive technologies in helping children with disabilities learn coding and robotics.Lucretia hopes to establish an inclusive coding and robotics programme where children with and without disabilities can learn together.The Japan-funded UNITAR programme ran from November 2023 to March 2024 and aimed to prepare 7,000 women and youth fro...
Educator and UNITAR alumnus Mohamadou Bello wants to make learning accessible to more women and young people in Cameroon.
Mohamadou is creating a multilingual e-learning platform, using his experience with digital learning and what he learned in the UNITAR 2021 Strategic Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Empowering the Sahel Region through Digital Reskilling and Upskilling to Enhance Productive Sources of Livelihood and Employment training programme.
The programme, run by the UNITAR Division for Prosperity, helps professionals from the Sahel region transform their ...
Kuena James Dak Kuena, Entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist South Sudan Kuena James Dak Kuena is a South Sudanese entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist who seeks to empower local farmers and advance the agricultural sector by using the power of technology. He is currently an ICT and communication assistant for an NGO that promotes youth livelihoods, peacebuilding and education among vulnerable communities and refugees in Uganda and South Sudan. Kuena joined the UNITAR programme Great Ideas Space for South Sudan 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovat...
Thai diplomat Manchulika Wongchai participated in the 10th Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training Programme in Hiroshima in February 2025.Manchulika highlights the importance of considering the effects of emerging technologies on disarmament.What she has learned from this training programme has immensely strengthened her preparation for the Third Meeting of the State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Manchulika was encouraged by connecting with other diplomats in the region and aims to inspire young people to pursue careers in diplomacy...
UNITAR initiated the “Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training Fellowship Programme” in South Sudan in 2015 to improve the capacities of young professionals in post-conflict countries. Implemented by the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, the programme aims to strengthen hard and soft skills of young professionals in the fields of entrepreneurship, project planning and implementation, and leadership. More specifically, the programme offers training in the design and implementation of organizational needs assessments (ONA), environmental analysis, stakeholder identification and ...