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UNITAR’s headquarters are located in Geneva (Switzerland). Three out-posted offices have been established in New York (USA), Hiroshima (Japan) and Bonn (Germany) to strengthen skills of beneficiaries through programme development and delivery of regional activities. Read more.
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13 April 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Flooding is the most frequent type of disaster, affecting more than 2 billion people in the 20 years between 1998 and 2017 alone. When disaster hits, it is of vital importance to quickly know which areas have been affected in order to assess the potential damage and inform humanitarian relief efforts.
Within the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) supports teams on the ground to assess the impact of floods through its rapid mapping service. How this...
UN CC:Learn 2014-2017 Implementation Phase: Recommendations and Lessons from the mid-term evaluation
The mid-term evaluation found that the project has been an efficient and effective initiate, and highly relevant to its targeted users at both the global and national levels. The project is well on track to delivering its agreed outputs and outcomes, with good evidence to suggest that the work is already contributing to long-term impacts. The project is clearly building understanding of climate change amongst its target audiences and – more importantly – there are early signs that UN CC:Learn-supported resources and processes are triggering a degree of positive behaviour ch...
Before she participated in her first UNITAR training, Ms. Syeda Bushra Binte Amin was working at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), a regional organization focused on disaster preparedness in Bangladesh.
Ms. Bushra was working on Multi-Hazard Risk and Vulnerability Assessments Project, which analyses the impacts of 8 hazards including flood, landslide, tsunami, cyclone, earthquake, and others. As a Geographical Information System (GIS) consultant at ADPC, her work was to perform analysis for risk assessments of 5 components - housing, livelihood,…
UNITAR organizes training in the form of workshops, seminars and fellowships where participants, mostly professionals from developing countries, learn from each other and share their experiences and the common issues they are facing. This can be done through face-to-face events as well as online courses.
Image: the rain accumulation map elaborated by UNOSAT analysts, showing a peak in the areas affected by the flood....
UNOSAT delivers training courses based on modules derived from high level standard training and its unique experience in producing excellence in satellite data analysis. Courses range from dedicated in-site and off-site classes of 7 to 20 participants and also a Master level course hosted in Geneva during three weeks....
2 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – Ambassadors and representatives of Permanent Missions in Geneva were invited to join our 5th Friends of UNITAR Meeting, to learn more about UNITAR, its activities and our new Strategic Framework 2018 - 2021., The two Co-Chairs, Her Excellency Ambassador Terhi Hakala (Finland) and Her Excellency Ambassador Beatriz Londono Soto (Colombia) opened the event followed by a welcome message by UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNITAR Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth., During this meeting, five short presentations covering UNITAR’s thematic and...