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15 March 2024, Geneva, Switzerland - To celebrate International Women’s Day, UNOSAT hosted on 8 March 2024 a powerful webinar aiming at promoting gender equality by inspiring young women to pursue careers in GIS. Let us have a look back on the insightful discussions and fruitful advice given to young women desiring to commit to a career in this industry during this special event.
Kicking off the webinar with a message of empowerment, Olivier Van Damme, senior programme specialist at UNOSAT, declared,
A woman's place is wherever she wants to be!
This sentime...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the final workshop of the 2023 Cycle “Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day” from 5 to 11 March 2024 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
The programme empowers women leaders in the Pacific and other small islands developing states and Asian countries with practical expertise and insights to spearhead disaster risk reduction management initiatives that are both gender-inclusive and oriented to the whole of the community.
The top 20 learners selected from more than 200...
15 June 2022, Geneva, Switzerland – For the past twenty years, UNOSAT has been developing its expertise in using Geospatial Information Technologies to promote evidence-based decision-making for peace, security and resilience. The relevant and objective information provided to UN agencies, programme and Member States helps inform recovery activities, investigations and overall peace processes. , Damage assessment, population movements, monitoring borders, accessibility status of remote areas,.. these are some of the ways advanced geospatial analysis can help monitor t...
UNITAR's national committee in Japan, with its secretariat in Hiroshima, Japan, UNITAR Association held an SDGs Seminar on 5 June 2023 with its members.
As of June 2023, UNITAR Association has 44 individuals and 25 organizations as members.
UNITAR Association’s Sustainable Development Goals Seminar offered Hiroshima-based companies the opportunity to collaborate and share best practices towards achieving SDGs.
, 14 June 2023, Hiroshima, Japan – On 5 June 2023, UNITAR Association held a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Seminar for its supporting members in Hiroshi...
14 May 2021, London, Great Britain – In anticipation of the UN Road Safety Week, UNITAR together with Diageo has today launched a hard-hitting, new anti-drink driving e-learning module to help people understand the consequences of drink driving.
With recent figures estimating there has been the highest causalities from UK drink-driving in a decade[1] and 5-35% of all road deaths worldwide believed to be alcohol related[2], ‘WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD’ is a unique, interactive experience that allows people to have a conversation with a real drink driver to help them understand ...
03 February 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - Mr. Alex Mejia, Director, Division for People and Social Inclusion at UNITAR, Head, CIFAL Global Network, presented an update on the online Knowledge Hub on Migration and Sustainable Development, on 25 January 2021, in the framework of the Open Space of the 13th Summit of the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD). During this segment of the Summit, there was a wide participation from all regions, with representatives from States, private sector, academia, and civil society.
As part of the core aspects of this tool, i...
What does it take to rebuild a nation shattered by war? More than just bricks and mortar, reestablishing the socio-economic foundations is a vital part of the process, one that is particularly important for restoring people’s sense of opportunity, dignity and hope. However, accomplishing such thing depends largely on the nation’s capacity to retain talents that will contribute to efforts towards enabling the state to be fully functional again. Hussein Naeem Hasan Naser is, without a doubt, one of these rare talents!, Born in Southern Iraq, Hussein moved to Baghdad to study,...
9 – 11 December 2019, Kigali, Rwanda – UNITAR collaborated with the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) to host a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on Anticorruption and Sustainable Development in Kigali, Rwanda from 9-11 December 2019. In the framework of this event, UNITAR also signed a partnership agreement with the State of Qatar and the Government of Rwanda, aimed at future joint anti-corruption training activities.
The workshop focused on residents from Africa and other parts of the world, as part of the ongoing global efforts to build capacity in figh...
Limited slots are available in this course and will be subject to a selection process conducted by FAO and UNITAR, taking into account in particular, the geographical distribution and gender balance. A certificate of completion will be issued to participants who successfully complete all course-related assignments and assessments.
For more information and online registration, please visit UNITAR’s website at: http://www.unitar.org/aita-ru (the website is in Russian and English, the course will be delivered in Russian). Registration deadline is 22 April 2019 or while slots ...
In April-May 2019, Small Island Developing States in the Asia-Pacific region will use StaTact: a new web-based tool developed by UNITAR and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) to support short-term statistical planning leveraging SDG, regional and national indicators. Country groups of officials from National Statistical Offices, Planning, Finance and selected line Ministries as well as representatives of non-traditional data sources will carry out action planning to address pressing SDG data gaps in the context of StaTact workshops to be held in Sidney and Nadi from 23 April...