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The UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day was first launched in 2016 in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The programme targets women from around the world but particularly those living or from Pacific SIDS. The UNITAR Hiroshima Office, echoing the Government of Japan, underscored that a gender-focused perspective to DRR. The Programme aims to “help focus attention on the distinct gender-specific capacities and vulnerabilities to pr...
Next addition dates to be announced soon. In the mean time, please contact multilateralism@unitar.org for further information., During the upcoming year, UNITAR is delighted to deliver the first edition of our 5-day field visit to Nairobi – the seat of the UN offices at Nairobi (UNON), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat. We will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into the host city of these key UN agencies and thereby gain first-hand experience of the United Nations.UNITAR will host most of the activities on the premises of the UN Offi...
4 July 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - A Framework of Cooperation between the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Group of Fifteen (G-15), a grouping of developing countries focused on South-South cooperation, was signed on 4th July, 2016 in Geneva.
Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, Chairman of the Personal Representatives of the Heads of State and Government of the G-15 and the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva signed the Agreement on behalf of the G-15 while Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secr...
1 June 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – Post-COVID workspaces involve interconnectedness from around the world. Thanks to resilience, creativity, and innovation, we have overcome the challenges presented by the pandemic. Alongside this global realignment, UNITAR adapted its professional and learning solutions to ensure quality content delivery, regardless of obstacles.
UNITAR offers education resources to bring professionals together in any environment. With this goal in mind, after a year-long hiatus to reframe the programme, UNITAR is delighted to announce that the Executive ...
13 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland — On 7 May 2025, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Geneva and the International Law Association (GCC Branch), hosted a High-Level Dialogue on Justice and Capacity-Building in International Law this week at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.The event brought together diplomats, legal scholars, and practitioners from around the world to examine how Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and Small I...
10 February 2023, Geneva, Switzerland- The latest annual edition of the Geneva Interfaith Dialogue, hosted by UNITAR in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations in Geneva, took place in early February. The event convened a diverse panel of Ambassadors, high-level representatives of the world's major faiths, and the International Geneva community to engage on the links between faith, politics, and society. The Annual Geneva Interfaith Dialogue serves the purpose of commemorating World Interfaith Harmony Week, establish...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu left Tonga to join her children in the US and to care for a sick sister. She has since been waiting for Tonga’s borders to reopen so she can continue her work in Tonga.
When a large part of Texas lost power in February 2021 due to three severe winter storms, it made Lavinia reflect.
Big countries have the opportunity and the resources to prepare for things like this. But it’s not on their mind,
she says. Tonga, on the other hand, may not have such resources, but “they’re always preparing, they’re a...
15 December 2022, New York City, U.S.A. – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research New York Office lead the annual Orientation Course of the Economic and Social Council for 2022-2023. The day-long training was held in a hybrid format, with majority of attendees joining in person in the ECOSOC Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters and more attendees connecting through Webex. , Consisting of nine courses and lasting from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST, the orientation course addressed several topics such as the working methods and structure of the ECOSOC, the...
The Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative (GLH) welcomed five prominent plant scientists and experts to observe and study hibakujumoku, atomic-bombing survivor trees.
GLH aims to disseminate worldwide the message of peace and the many green legacies of the hibakujumoku.
The Initiative, established in 2011, currently works with close to 130 partners in 40 countries.
, 28 November 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – In early November 2022, Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative (GLH) hosted five plant scientists and botanic garden experts from renowned institutions in the United States to ob...
This initiative is part of a global momentum towards sustainable and multi-partner development.
Today, public-private partnerships and sustainable development have become part of everyday vocabulary and the number of public-private partnerships concluded in the last decade has grown exponentially.
Business engagement is crucial to the advancement of the Post-2015 development agenda, which will be officially adopted in September 2015:
“Governments, acting in concert, will need to lead, but a truly effective global partnership will have to enlist as active partners all of...