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Name: Nafissa Dia
Organization: Senegal Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Planning
Functional Title: Head of the Environmental Affairs Division
Country: Senegal
Course participated in: Private Sector Development course with PFTP
Nafissa Dia is Head of the Environmental Affairs Division at the Senegal Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Planning. She took a course on Private Sector Development organized by the Public Finance and Trade Programme (PFTP) at UNITAR.
Nafissa’s background is in International Commerce. She went to the International School o...
Franklin University Switzerland and UNITAR organized a joint event during the Open Geneva Hackathon Festival. The online Hackathon "Food as a nexus for synchronic urban and rural development" offered a platform to generate innovative ideas to rethink and improve food as a linkage for development in rural and urban areas. The hackathon lasted three days and was delivered entirely online, allowing participants worldwide to join the event.
The event included the participation of UN-Habitat, FAO and UNITAR experts to facilitate workshops and group work activities. Four w...
As part of the AGFUND and UNITAR Global Learning Platform on Financial Inclusion initiative, two e-workshops were organized to enhance the capacities of professionals in the areas of financial inclusion and sustainable development. The e-workshops "Financial inclusion and sustainable development" and "Training of Trainers for financial inclusion" were delivered in November and December 2020, over four weeks each. The e-workshops targeted professionals working in microfinance or financial institutions from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)....
Responding to an unexpected crisis has always been a challenge for policymakers. Health-related crises, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, are no exception. With the aim of increasing public officials' response capacity to develop and implement effective policies and actions in health emergency contexts, UNITAR and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations have organized the e-learning programme, "Responding to crisis: strengthening finance and trade resilience to global pandemics and health emergencies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)". The programme was fi...
UNITAR learner and entrepreneur Maureen Nduta empowers women in her community by involving them in her start-up farming business by the coastal region of Mombasa, Kenya and applying what she learned from the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa.
Maureen sets an example of breaking barriers and limitations on cultural perceptions and societal expectations of a woman by being hands-on and engaging on her farming business.
UNITAR Division for Prosperity's partnership with Unilever and Absa Bank targets to provide 5,000 wome...
Since 2016, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, in collaboration with the Government of Japan, has organized the “UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day”. The programme's objective is to strengthen women professionals’ knowledge of tsunami-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) to better prevent, prepare, confront, and recover from tsunami-related disasters. It also develops skills in women’s leadership, inclusive approach to DRR, effective communication, and development of multi-stakeholder coal...
Dr. Hajar Abulfazl, UNITAR alum and former co-captain of the Afghanistan women’s national football team, is passionate about breaking gender stereotypes and creating opportunities for women and girls of Afghanistan.
Hazar shared her advocacy work in women’s empowerment through sports in an online seminar organized by Ange Violet Hiroshima, Hiroshima City University, UNITAR Association, and UNITAR Hiroshima Office.
She recalls her learning experiences during the UNITAR Leadership and Communication Training Programme.
Hajar continues her mission to advocate for wome...
メキシコ出身のFranco Escobarさんは、博士課程の学生であり、広島平和研究所の研究員として、核軍縮への若者の参加を活性化させることを目指しています。2023年、Escobarさんは国連軍縮部主催の「ユース非核リーダー基金（YLF）」の一環として、国連ユニタールが実施協力したYLFの日本スタディツアーに参加しました。Escobarさんは、核軍縮に関する初の若者のアーカイブを作成し、若い活動家の経験などを記録・収集し、未来の歴史家、活動家、そして一般市民のための資料として活用できるようにすることを目指しています。, 2024年11月3日、広島 - メキシコ出身の広島平和研究所の研究員Franco Escobarさん（博士課程）は、核軍縮への若者の関わりを記録する使命を持っています。彼は、冷戦が終結して以来、多くの人々が核戦争はもはや重要な問題ではない、と考えていると認識しています。Lawrence Wittner教授などの歴史学者の研究によれば、1960年代や1980年代の活動の活気と比べると、21世紀に入ってから、若者の平和団体への参加は激減しています。この傾向は、若者の間だけでなく、社会全体での意識が低下していることを示しており、核紛争のリスクの高まりや軍備管理条約の弱体化と鮮明な対比を成しています。Escobarさんは、若者の参加...
トンガの国家災害リスク管理局の書記官のLuisa Taungaさんは、災害への備えと対応を専門とする研究・訓練部門を率いています。Taungaさんは 2017年に国連ユニタールの津波防災に関する女性のリーダーシップ研修の最初のグループに参加し、2023 年には同研修事業に講師として参加しました。トンガは災害に対して脆弱であり、特に資源が限られた離島では、大きな課題を抱えています。Luisaさんは、研修事業の一環として日本を訪れた経験に触発され、地域コミュニティの意識を高めるために、子どもや若者向けの防災ワークショップを企画・運営しました。, 2025年02月19日、広島 - Luisa Taungaさんはトンガの国家災害リスク管理局の書記官であり、研究・訓練部門の責任者として、災害対策や訓練・対応戦略に重点を置き、地域社会が緊急事態に対処できるよう努めています。彼女は、国連ユニタールの災害リスク軽減研修事業が始まって間もなく、2017年に同研修に参加しました。その後、災害に対する地域レベルでの備えとレジリエンスを構築するリーダーとなったLuisaさんは、2023年の国連ユニタールの防災研修に、講師として迎えられました。, 2017年、Taungaさんがまだ災害管理の分野の新人だったころ、国連ユニタールの第2回津波防災に関す...
Olga Devic is a translator that joined a team of young women to translate a course on AI and human rights into Serbian.
The course is “Defending Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence“ and was created by UNITAR and UNESCO in English with original translations in French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese.
Recently, with the support of the SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI), youth translators have volunteered on bringing the course into 20 additional languages.
Working on an all-female team of translators, Olga was i...