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13 February 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland - The campus of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) played host to the first meeting of the new AP-Swiss initiative launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with the Swiss Space Office.
The mission of AP-Swiss is to help the Swiss industry be more competitive on the international market of satellite applications with a special focus on integrated solutions. Integrated solutions involve creating services for various user families by combining the functionalities of space applications areas…
UNITAR Afghanistan Fellowship Programme 2016 Cycle Finishes Strong in Hiroshima
18 May 2017, Hiroshima, Japan -- The UNITAR Afghanistan Fellowship Programme: Inspiring Transformation concluded with Workshop III, held over two weeks in Hiroshima from 17 to 29 April 2017. The Fellowship, which teaches project development, management, and leadership skills, honed Fellows' by-then extensive knowledge by focusing on team development, change management, conflict resolution, leading project implementation, and ethics and values in relation to social entrepreneurship, among other…
Introductory e-Course on Climate Change, Now Available in Arabic
The UN CC:Learn free Introductory e-Course on Climate Change is now available in seven languages, including Arabic.
25 April 2018, Amman, Jordan - Did you know that more than 400 million people speak Arabic? From today, Arabic speakers will be able to join the community of over 90,000 people that have already started learning about climate change and its impacts. The Introductory e-Course on Climate Change is part of the UN CC:Learn global initiative; a partnership of more than 50 countries and…
While ballots from the Southern Sudan referendum are sorted and counted in the presence of election observers, the UN Security Council on 18 January welcomed the conclusion of voting in the referendum for the self-determination of Southern Sudan, describing the voting exercise as “largely peaceful and orderly” and urged both parties to Sudan’s peace agreement to respect the outcome of the poll.
The week-long referendum, which ended on 15 January, was part of the process to implement the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended two decades of civil war between…
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) - which is the main forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making between key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners - and UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully concluded the first online course on information management. Forty-four (44) professionals from key UN and non-UN agencies successfully completed this course which aimed at improving their knowledge of how information management can enhance humanitarian action, thereby contributing to improved decision-making in the inter-agency…
21 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - After initial assessment, Humanitarian agencies are in agreement that Tropical Storm Mahasen that hit Bangladesh and Myanmar last week spared local populations any serious impact. What is more, the emergency was a positive test for inter-agency coordination for emergency response. The Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar underlined that both the government and UN agencies involved had been proactive in responding to the threat of the storm. In Myanmar, over 100,000 people were moved to safer places and are now beginning to return to their…
July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - The project ‘Map Your School’, a joint initiative between UNOSAT, UNICEF and the Panamanian Government has moved to the next stage in its development, as it begins a pilot test phase in the Escuela Puerto Rico, in Panama City, Panama. Initial feedback has been very good “The children understood very well how to use the platform, with no previous guidance on how to use it!“ exclaimed Heidi Peugeot, a Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist and the UNICEF focal point for the Map Your School project.
Map Your School is an online…
5-7 Febuary 2013, Osaka, Japan - The International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC UNEP), in collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), is working on an initiative to produce and implement "Guidelines for the development, review and updating of national waste management strategies." It responds to UNEP Governing Council decisions 25/8 and 26/3 calling on UNEP to support national implementation of integrated waste management and to the Rio+20 call for development of comprehensive national waste management strategies (paragraph…
UNOSAT Analysis Reveals Nepal Earthquake Damage
27 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - The 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Nepal on 25 April has quickly taken the proportions of a major disaster with many destroyed buildings in Kathmandu and large rural areas severely affected. Official figures indicate over 4,000 deaths, a toll probably due to increase.
The damage in Kathmandu is important and clearly visible in the first satellite images released by UNOSAT on 27 April 2015. According to initial estimates from the UN in the country, eight million people in 39 districts have…
Twenty-Four Young Iraqi Fellows Complete Workshop on Needs Assessment and Effective Communication in Istanbul
14 December 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has successfully completed the second workshop of the UNITAR Iraq Fellowship Programme: Entrepreneurship and Youth Leadership Training, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 7 – 11 December 2017. The Fellowship is a six-month specialized capacity-building programme that examines entrepreneurship and youth leadership in the context of Iraq. It is comprised of four face-to-face workshops and is…