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April 2024, Bonn, Germany - UNITAR's Sustainable Cycles (Scycle) Programme published the National E-waste Monitor for Namibia and Botswana. This reports outline the current status of e-waste management in those countries and highlight significant challenges facing the countries in this regard. , Botswana currently lacks the capacity to efficiently monitor e-waste, which complicates tracking efforts and obstructs the establishment and evaluation of crucial targets necessary for transitioning to a more sustainable and circular economy.
To quantify e-waste stocks and flo...
New York, USA & Geneva, Switzerland, 07 July 2022 – The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) unveiled a new interactive map of religious sites in Sweden. The map is available online for public consumption through this URL: https://forsafeworship.org/sweden/
, A total of 4,438 religious sites spanning 13 denominations are represented in the map, which allows users to zoom in and out of geographic locations as well as access key data points of places of worship in Sweden. Users can also toggle betwe...
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policymaking. Its members include: the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The Partnership supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around sustainability to foster economic growth create income and jobs, re...
10 September 2021, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR Division for Prosperity has released its first Global Impact Report on the performance of the Educate All open online course library. The Division’s first-ever interactive report summarizes how many lessons were downloaded and completed in 2020.
Imagine being able to curate your own library of mobile-first courses, for your own professional development or to share with others, all for free. This is precisely what EdApp and UNITAR offer through Educate All.
EdApp and UNITAR joined forces in 2020 to open this Educate A...
26 August 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – Today, selected participants of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) begin their week-long study visit to Japan. There, they will meet with survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and host their own youth-led conference. The YLF programme, funded by the Government of Japan and managed by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), seeks to engage a diverse cross-section of future leaders from non-nuclear weapon States and States that possess nuclear weapons, develop their capacit...
Tabu Elder and Baria Johnson Kibo are two of nearly 100 young South Sudanese professionals who took part in the 2020–21 UNITAR Building Bridges: Entrepreneurship and Project Planning in South Sudan Programme.
The online programme is financially supported by the government and the people of Japan and conducted with the institutional support of the government of South Sudan.
Tabu is now passing on what she learned through volunteer teaching of entrepreneurs and hopes to create a community project in water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Baria ran a needs assessment in her...
Facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration is essential. This initiative seeks to mobilize public-private sector collaboration to implement local demonstration projects that help cities reduce deaths and injuries caused by traffic crashes.This Partnership aims at contributing to advance road safety targets by:Increasing public awareness of road safety risk factors.Building capacity of government authorities to implement holistic, evidence-based approaches that improve road safety.Promoting the development of public-private partnerships to accelerate progress., The Toolkit...
29-31 July 2022, Bali, Indonesia - UNITAR, the University of Geneva and Open Geneva organized the first SDG Open Hack! Bali on Tackling Waste Management through Innovation, from 29-31 July 2022.
Hosted by the Jimbaran Hub, in collaboration with the Meaningful Design Group, the SDG Open Hack! Bali aimed to leverage collective intelligence and community building to find innovative and practical solutions towards waste management for Bali. Students, activists, and professionals took part by proposing critical waste management challenges to be collectively addressed ...
30 March 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - As nations grapple with the effects of climate change, inequality and injustice, and other global issues, young people have stepped up as change-makers within their local and regional communities. However, despite the positive actions of many, their creative solutions need to reach a wider audience. To give the youth the voice they deserve, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research is partnering with Barbara Harrison Media and Kids Speak Out to launch the project: Through the Lens of the Youth Documentaries by You...
Microlearning based courses aimed at increasing public awareness on risk factors causing road traffic deaths and injuries, as well as on post-crash and emergency response techniques.The World Bank estimates that 44% of the world's population owns a smartphone. Providing road safety education through mobile microlearning based training to reach a broad audience is a key objective of the Road Safety Global Training Initiative., Statistics show that between 30 and 50 percent of total deaths occur in the next 5 minutes after a road traffic crash. Knowing what to ...