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June 2020 - Interested in financial inclusion and financial management and want to upskill yourself? Our joint AGFUND-UNITAR Global Learning Platform on Financial Inclusion has a range of upcoming courses to help build your skills around key finance topics. We've already received thousands of applications from around the world for courses on the platform and are excited to be announcing new courses which will be starting soon. , Upcoming courses that you can apply for include:
Leadership Skills for Finance Managers
Fundamentals of Anti-Money Laundering: International St...
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...
Design and delivery of learning experiences
We create learning experiences that are rooted in the needs of our target audience and organisations aiming at improved performance on the long run.
Training of trainers
We empower trainers to be more effective and engaging in order to enhance and transform the knowledge, skills and attitudes of those they work with.
Learning reinforcement
Learning does not stop at the end of a training event. We create long-term follow up systems that support the integration of learning and the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes ...
15 May 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR and Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) launched its first joint online course on Fundamentals of Microfinance as part of a series of online courses aimed at supporting financial inclusion initiatives across the Middle East and Africa. Thanks to the financial support of AGFUND, these training courses are made freely available to the participants.
This joint initiative with AGFUND recognizes financial inclusion as an enabler of sustainable development goals including eradicating poverty; achieving gender equality and ec...
23 September 2019, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth, attended the UN High-Level Meetings (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) during the 74th United Nations General Assembly which was held at Trusteeship Council on Monday morning.
The HLM theme ‘Moving Together to Build a Healthier World’ aims at mobilizing maximum political will to harness all the necessary resources needed to “package the entire health agenda under the umbrella of UHC and sustain health investments in a harmoni...
15 January- 12 February 2019, Malaga, Spain - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Malaga (CIFAL Malaga) jointly with Centre for Teachers of Malaga and Art and Sustainability Organization hosted the course “Art and sustainability at the Museum” to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through art. This five-day course was addressed to 25 teachers from the province of Malaga.
Its main objective was to design sustainability projects in the classroom with pedagogical materials and art pieces of the Museum of Malaga. Additionally, partic...
30 April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (NAZAHA) successfully hosted a 4-day workshop on Leadership and Anti-Corruption in Kuwait City, from 24 to 27 March 2019. Effective leadership, transparency and anti-corrupt structures are fundamental to efficient organizations. The uniquely tailored workshop covered these essential topics and allowed selected staff from different departments of NAZAHA not only to enhance their leadership skills but also to raise their a...
4 July 2019, Geneva, Switzerland - On the 10th and 11th of June 2019, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research successfully hosted a Workshop on Digital Diplomacy, which marked the last workshop in its series of Core Diplomatic Trainings for the 4th Edition of the Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice. 19 participants were in attendance including diplomats, international development specialists, entrepreneurs and professionals from the private sector.
It was facilitated by Mr. Shaun Riordan, an expert consultant and Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace of t...
Our Capacity Building Advisory Services empower universities, international organizations, governments, and private sector partners to strengthen health education, workforce development, and institutional resilience. Our expertise ensures that non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, digital health integration, and health system sustainability remain at the forefront of global efforts., Strategic advisory and policy support – High-level policy guidance, multi-sectoral collaboration, and technical assistance on NCD financing, digital health governance, and health syst...
On 06 January 2022, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Mr Anurag Thakur, inaugurated the pilot phase of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) Youth Volunteers Online Training Programme. Organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MoYAS) in collaboration with The Defeat-NCD Partnership, UNITAR, and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), the initiative was coordinated by the Capacity Building Commission, Government of India.Mr Anurag Thakur highlighted the Indian government’s commitment to skilling India’s yo...