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UNITAR TICAD VI Panel on Capacity Development for African Youth
27 August 2016, Nairobi, Kenya - As part of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) VI Summit being held in Nairobi, Kenya, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office successfully held a side event focusing on "Capacity Development for African Youth: Lessons Learnt and Future Prospects". Featuring experts and youth representatives engaged in capacity development in Africa, the event reviewed the lessons learnt from activities undertaken to date by multiple organizations, and explored the challenges…
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29 September 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - Significant opportunities exist for developing and developed countries to achieve long-term and sustainable economic development by diversifying their economies and benefitting from the growing global demand for green goods and services. In this context, sustainable trade can serve as an effective means to advance an inclusive green economy.
To meet the learning needs and build capacities of national stakeholders, UNITAR and UNEP are collaborating within the…
The role of road safety in achieving sustainable cities
18 October 2016. Quito, Ecuador. Globally, 1.24 million people die on the roads as pedestrians, motorists, passengers, public transport users or commercial vehicle drivers. As urban areas flourish and become rampantly inhabited around the world, by people and vehicles, road safety must be a critical element for consideration when planning for sustainability.
UNITAR jointly with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety hosted the session titled “the role…
SDG-Fund Launches 2016 Report with UNITAR in Attendance
12 November 2016, New York, USA - The Sustainable Development Goals Fund launched their 2016 report on “Universality and the SDGs: A Business Perspective”.
Ms. Paloma Duran, Director of the SDG-Fund, gave the welcoming remarks and brief introduction of the SDG-Fund and the report. She mentioned that one year into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the report aims to grapple with the concept of universality and the opportunities and challenges it creates for the private sector as partners in…
South Sudan: Achievements & Challenges - 86th UNITAR Hiroshima Public Session
20 January 2016, Tokyo, Japan - The 86th UNITAR Hiroshima Public Session on the topic of "South Sudan: Achievements and Challenges" was successfully held at the United Nations University, Tokyo on Wednesday, 20 January. Organized on the occasion of the second workshop of the UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme being held in Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan, the session was attended by over 90 people, including members of diplomatic missions, international and NGO organizations, and…
BADEA and UNITAR Partner to Build Capacity for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
20 January 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – An Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) mission consisting of H.E. Dr. Sid Ould Tah (Director General) and Mr. Mohamed El Aïchouni (Head, Technical Assistance Division) visited UNITAR’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 20 January 2016. The Director General of BADEA and the Executive Director of UNITAR signed an aide-mémoire outlining their cooperation strategy.
The purpose of the visit was to review the results…
UNOSAT GIS for Disaster Management Course Ensures Practitioners Equipped with Key Skills
29 February - 18 March 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – UNOSAT successfully graduates 15 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) professionals who undertook the Master in GIS Course on Geo-Information in Disaster Situations offered by UNOSAT in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. This is the sixth edition of the training specifically designed for master level students and GIS professionals who are keen to effectively utilize geospatial tools for emergency response mapping.
The…
Workshop on Airport Cities and Competitiveness in Central America
31 March – 1 April 2016, San Salvador, El Salvador – UNITAR’s affiliated training centre in San Salvador (CIFAL El Salvador) hosted the workshop “Promoting Airport Cities for Competitiveness and Economic Development,” which aimed at providing a venue for the exchange of best practices on how to transform airports located in world-class airport cities that generate economic development and growth. The workshop took place from 31 March – 1 April 2016 and was jointly organized by CIFAL El Salvador and the…
22-23 January 201, Nairobi, Kenya - Over 70 participants coming from the member states of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), international organizations, UN agencies, the private sector, academia and the media met in Nairobi to discuss how to strengthen the action of IGAD and its member states to build resilience and response to disasters in the region. The event was organised by IGAD together with UNITAR/UNOSAT and Wilton Park, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The conference comes at an exciting juncture between two key…
12 June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - The UNOG Library Talk of last week in Geneva was dedicated to the launching of the new UNOSAT study on Piracy. This report is the result of five years of research in the area of geospatial information applied to piracy. The research, conducted by UNOSAT experts is the an attempt to look at piracy globally from a geospatial angle, combining mapping and satellite observations to reveal trends and patterns that can only be observed when “looking from above”.
The launching took the form of a panel discussion with the participation of the…