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To carry out a wide range of training programmes in the field of peace and security as well as social, environment and economic development.
To carry out result-oriented research, in particular, research on and for training and to develop pedagogical materials including distance learning training packages, workbooks, as well as software and video training packs.
To establish and strengthen cooperation with other inter-governmental organizations, faculties and academic institutions, in particular for the development of research and training activities.
To conduct…
OUAGADOUGOU -- On 31 March 2010, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Municipality of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso inaugurated the new headquarters of the International Training Center for Local Actors (CIFAL Ouagadougou). Funded by the Municipality of Ouagadougou, the new headquarters is comprised of a training room with a capacity of one hundred training places and many offices for running the training center’s daily operations.
The CIFAL Ouagadougou is part of the international network of training centers set up by UNITAR which aims at…
“Sustainable energy—energy that is accessible, cleaner and more efficient—powers opportunity.
It grows economies. It lights up homes, schools and hospitals. It empowers women and local communities.
And it paves a path out of poverty to greater prosperity for all.” (UN Sustainable Energy for All)
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL (SE4ALL) is an initiative launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and guided by his High Level Group inviting key actors to…
10-11 October 2013, New York, U.S.A. - The international community audience in New York is more accustomed to policy debates than to technical talks. Yet 150 experts from 20 countries and 85 organizations attended the second annual conference “GIS for the UN and the International Community”, an event organised by UNOSAT and Esri to raise awareness of the potential of GIS in all areas of international action and to bring together experts, ideas and users. This year, the World Bank Institute joined in as co-organiser, while industry sponsors included famous satellite data…
N’Djamena, Chad, June 2012 - The largest UNOSAT capacity development project so far has formally begun operations in Chad in June after months of preparations involving the Swiss Development Cooperation and local partners in the country. The project, named "ResEAU: water resources mapping of Chad", is part of a visionary initiative by the Swiss government for which UNOSAT was selected as the expert team for implementing activities on the ground, along with other centres of excellence from Switzerland.
During the inaugural phase the first meeting of the Steering Committee…
October 2012, Munich, Germany - At an award ceremony in Munich in October 2012, AnsuR Technologies of Norway, a long standing partner of UNITAR/UNOSAT, won the ESA App Challenge, part of the GMES Masters European Earth Monitoring Competition. The ASIGN crowd-source app, developed by AnsuR and partners within the EU research project GEO-PICTURES, allows citizens worldwide to automatically upload and share geo-referenced pictures, videos and other data.
The application works on Android and iOS operating systems and has been tested by UNOSAT in operational contexts during…
6 December 2012 - Tropical storm Bopha (Pablo locally) cut through the Philippines on 5 December causing death and destruction so intense that it is difficult to assess them with traditional methods. During the passage of the storm, thousands of people in the affected region have exchanged images, footage and comments regarding its impact. However the data is not always geo-tagged and the sheer amount of messages makes it impossible for one entity to sort information.
The digital volunteer community worldwide has been mobilised in an attempt to help. In one example,…
8 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – As Thailand is still experiencing its worst flood in 50 years, UNOSAT and its partner Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), based in Bangkok, have been intensifying their efforts to monitor flood waters since the onset of the crisis. In line with its growing involvement in collaborative mapping and crowd sourcing, UNOSAT has facilitated the introduction in current crisis monitoring activities over Bangkok of a new application capable of using input from local volunteers to add useful information to satellite derived mapping.…
UN CC:Learn Partners with Jordan and EDAMA to Provide Climate Change Knowledge in Arabic
07 October 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - The UN CC:Learn Secretariat recently signed a letter of collaboration with the Ministry of Environment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the EDAMA business association, agreeing to work together for the dissemination of climate change learning in the Arabic world.
The collaboration includes the following elements:
Translation of the UN CC:Learn introductory e-course on climate change into Arabic
Organization of a launch event in…
UNITAR Hosts Meeting with Dominican Republic Migration Institute Representatives
12 December 2016, New York, USA – In collaboration with the United States Department of State’s Office of International Visitors, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s (UNITAR) New York Office (NYO) hosted four representatives from the Dominican Republic’s Instituto Nacional de Migracion (National Institute of Migration). The representatives were part of the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The Program is the U.S. Department of State…