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7 September 2021, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office successfully implemented its two-day training, the “Transition Workshop for the 76th Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA),” in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Ecuador, Finland, and Malaysia. This workshop was organized to support the Office of the President of the General Assembly in its transition between the 75th and 76th OPGA, and to specifically facilitate opportunities for existing, former, and incoming OPGA staff to share exper...
Name: Pierluigi Sinibaldi
Organization: OXFAM America
Functional Title: Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist
Country: USA
Course participated in: 13th International Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management
Pierluigi Sinibaldi is a Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist at OXFAM America. He took a course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
Pierluigi has worked in the humanitarian sector since 2002 in a variety of areas, including food security, emergency response, a...
11 April 2022 - Policymakers and Data producers tend to work in silos, disconnected from one another, preventing them to benefit from the synergies and benefits collaborative efforts would bring, especially to advance the SDGs and ensure No One is Left Behind.
To address this disconnect, UNESCAP, PARIS21 and UNITAR respectively developed EPIC, ADAPT and StaTact, three free-standing and complementary data-planning tools intervening at different stages of the data production process and concerned with multi-stakeholder collaboration.
This session of the Asia-Pacific Stats...
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) are delighted to collaboratively launch the new edition of the innovative Executive Diploma in Anti-Corruption and Diplomacy (EDACD). This programme is specifically tailored to explore the intricate connections between Multilateral Diplomacy and Anti-Corruption endeavors in our increasingly interconnected world. This modular training is conveniently conducted online, over the course of five months, offering a unique opportunity to gain valuabl...
3 May 2019, Nadi, Fiji - Following its application by 16 countries, including Caribbean Small Island Developing States, StaTact has been successfully introduced to SIDS countries in the Asia-Pacific region during regional workshops that ran from 23 April to 3 May 2019 in Sydney, Australia, and Nadi, Fiji. The workshops are part of the one-year training programme aimed at strengthening the statistical capacities in the Asia-Pacific Small Island Developing States in the context of SDG monitoring requirements, and implemented in partnership with UN Statistics Division, Se...
27 January 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Between 18-27 January 2021, UNITAR, UNESCAP, UNDP, and UNDESA jointly organized a Subregional Introductory Training for Countries of North and Central Asia on Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) for Sustainable Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis and for Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
With the beginning of the decade of delivery for the 2030 Agenda, mobilization of finance for the SDGs remains a challenge. The Covid-19 pandemic and the economic disruption it has caused has exacerbated this chall...
Expert technical services to develop sound costing and financial analysis for the National Multisectoral Non- Communicable Disease Strategy and Action Plan for The Gambia (ungm.org), UNITAR’s procurement is carried out in accordance with the United Nations Financial Regulations and Rules, the General Conditions of Contracts for the Provision of Goods or Services and the UN Supplier Code of Conduct. These guidelines are governed by the Principles of Best Value for Money, Transparency, Integrity, Effective International Competition and the interest of the United Nations.
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21 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The need for an integrated approach to financing is greater now than it has ever been – to build forward better within the context of deep socio-economic impacts and rapid changes across the financing landscape that have been triggered by the COVID-19 crisis.
Building on the successful experience of the pilot training held for North and Central Asian countries in January 2021, UNITAR, ESCAP, UNDP, and UNDESA have teamed up - in collaboration with the country-led platform Asia-Pacific SDG Finance Facility (APFIN) - to create a...
3 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The year-long global fight to contain and eliminate the threat of SARS-CoV-2 overshadowed international efforts to achieve the SDGs of Agenda2030. The world needs the brightest minds to step into leadership roles at the forefront of the transformational change required to realize the ambitious goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the field of science, technology and innovation, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Targets 17.6 and 17.8 respectively, aim to “enhance North-South, South-South and trian...
On 13-15 November 2019, UNITAR with the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governance (DPIDG) of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as partners on board conducted a training workshop on Integrated policies and policy coherence for SDGs for the Caribbean SIDS.. This three-day regional event held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, aimed to strengthen the capacities of senior government officials to promote an institutional shift in their countries from linear plannin...