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Together with our partners the Clean Cooking Alliance, UNITAR’s Humanitarian Energy team hosted the first ever gathering of practitioners dedicated to improving and expanding access to clean energy in humanitarian settings. The two-day event took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 31 July and 1 August and brought together over 180 representatives from 31 countries.
Participants agreed that access to clean energy is essential to provide vital services to displaced people, such as health and education, to spur entrepreneurship in humanitarian settings, and to reduce...
Established in 2023, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Portugal (CIFAL Cascais) is hosted by the Nova School of Business and Economics located in Cascais, Portugal. The centre provides a range of learning opportunities for empowering and training people through the transfer of knowledge and best practices, encouraging cross-sectoral collaboration through world-class training courses and research to contribute to a sustainable future.Scope: Portuguese-speaking countries.Thematic areas: Blue Economy & Water ManagementHealthMigratio...
28 April 2025, Miami, USA – CIFAL Miami is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of the Disaster Preparedness Seminar. The event will take place on 22 and 23 May 2025 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This event highlights CIFAL Miami's commitment, as part of the CIFAL Global Network, affiliated to UNITAR, to emergency preparedness and risk management. The seminar is a collaborative initiative with the participation of several CIFAL Centres and the CIFAL Global Network.Recognizing the strategic role that a country's points of entry play during emergencies, CIFAL Miami ha...
As part of the AGFUND and UNITAR Global Learning Platform on Financial Inclusion initiative, two e-workshops were organized to enhance the capacities of professionals in the areas of financial inclusion and sustainable development. The e-workshops "Financial inclusion and sustainable development" and "Training of Trainers for financial inclusion" were delivered in November and December 2020, over four weeks each. The e-workshops targeted professionals working in microfinance or financial institutions from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)....
Cambodia’s public officials are wising up to increase domestic climate finance flows as part of a national campaign to combat the effects of global warming that are currently plaguing the country’s economy.
By Sara Tchaparian // 14 November 2016 // Climate Finance
Almost a year ago, the Eiffel Tower lit up with the phrase “No Plan B”, as delegates from 195 countries gathered to sign the landmark Paris Agreement, affirming their belief that climate change is the greatest threat to humankind in the 21st century. The agreement sets out a global plan of action to reduce…
In a change of focus determined by the conclusion of search and rescue operations in Haiti, UNOSAT closed its Rapid Mapping activation and embarked at the request of UNDP on a comprehensive damage assessment analysis over Port-au-Prince and neighbouring cities. The analysis, which builds also on parallel work performed by the European Commission JRC, French company SERTIT, Germany’s DRL/ZKI, Italy’s ITHACA and others, will contribute substantially in firming up the number of buildings affected by the tremor and will lead to a more precise estimate of the resources required ...
06 February 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - In the framework of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland from 21 to 24 January 2020, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with AB InBev renewed its collaboration to continue to “Strengthening Road Safety - A partnership to build capacity, drive innovation and deliver meaningful impact”.
The partnership is aligned to the call from the United Nations General Assembly during its seventy-fourth session[1] in which invited all relevant stakeholders, internatio...
Credit: The Innovation Society, May 2016
Governance of nanomaterials: Scientific insights as a basis for regulation
UNITAR’s senior expert, Georg Karlaganis, attended the 10th International Nano-Authorities Dialogue, presenting on UNITAR’s activities, the work on nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials as a SAICM emerging policy issue, and the SAICM governance process up to 2020 and beyond.
Georg’s presentation (in German)
The dialogue took place on 18 and 19 May 2016, at the invitation of the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland. More than 5...
On 20 April 2022, New York, United States (Virtual) – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York office, in partnership with AABGM Inc. - a Microsoft and EC Council certified leading company in the Cybersecurity field, kickstarted the event on Cybersecurity Awareness Training. This is a newly developed training programme which comprises of two sessions: (1) Cybersecurity Fundamentals, and (2) Advanced Cybersecurity.
The event began with Mr. Marco A. Suazo, Head of the UNITAR’s New York office. Mr. Suazo highlighted the importance of cybersecur...
Established in 2023, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Lebanon (CIFAL Lebanon) is hosted by the Global CEO Alliance, located in Beirut, Lebanon. It offers diverse learning opportunities, and promotes knowledge exchange among global public servants and leaders, enhancing capacities, fostering informed decision-making, and advancing sustainable development.The capacity development activities of CIFAL Lebanon will focus on the following thematic areas:Sustainable DevelopmentBest practices, tools, and resourcesSocial inclusionGender equalityEnviro...