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24 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - On 24 September 2020, 50 participants took part in a four-hour webinar on the topic “Sustainable Development Goals in the Private Sector”, organized and implemented by UNITAR and the Global Institute of Excellence in Hong Kong. In a short introduction, UNITAR’s executive director Nikil Seth explained how the Sustainable Development Goals and the private sector are ultimately connected and how the business sector has an immense influence on the impact of climate change and the ecological footprint. Especially now, in the mi...
21 June 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and PwC Middle East join forces to brief private sector entities on why COP28 in the United Arab Emirates is a watershed moment for involving businesses in the region and around the world in the climate talks.
The UNITAR-PwC interactive training session at the PwC’s Dubai Experience Center on 21 June 2023 supported attendees’ understanding of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) annual Conference of the Parties (COP) with a view to stren...
Design and delivery of learning experiences
We create learning experiences that are rooted in the needs of our target audience and organisations aiming at improved performance on the long run.
Training of trainers
We empower trainers to be more effective and engaging in order to enhance and transform the knowledge, skills and attitudes of those they work with.
Learning reinforcement
Learning does not stop at the end of a training event. We create long-term follow up systems that support the integration of learning and the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes ...
Multilateral Diplomacy - Building capacities in the area of gender, women’s leadership and mentoring
In a bid to enhance efforts towards attaining gender equality and women’s empowerment across societies, UNITAR has held five online workshops on gender, women’s leadership and mentoring. The main objective of the workshops was to foster the implementation of gender equality in the participants’ workplaces through increasing women representation in leadership roles and to forge partnerships with other actors in the field of gender, women’s leadership and mentoring. The workshops also sought to build leadership skills and the capacity of women to participate in all levels of ...
1 November 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR’s Women’s Leadership Programme in partnership with UN Women and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) held a Leadership Workshop for the female delegates accredited to the Radiocommunication Assembly (RA) and the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). The workshop was opened with remarks by Mr. Francois Rancy, Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau at ITU and Mr. Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNITAR Executive Director.
Both speakers outlined the need for such a workshop, Mr. Rancy acknowl...
18-19 March 2019, Beirut, Lebanon. UNITAR hosted the third workshop of the year on negotiation strategies and techniques for the diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of the Lebanese Republic. During the workshop, expert, Mr. Marwan Mery, founder of ADN Group, a large company of professional negotiators, provided the young diplomats the essential skills and tools needed to negotiate effectively in diplomatic settings.
Mr. Rabih El-Haddad, Director of the Division for multilateral diplomacy engaged the participants over the next day with simulation exe...
3 March 2020, New York, USA – During the first two days of the working visit to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhil Seth, completed several meetings with United Nations high-level officials and Ambassadors. The visit is taking place from the 2nd to the 6th of March 2020. After a coordination meeting at UNITAR Office in New York, with a brainstorming on the future of training and an introduction by the new office members, Mr. Seth met with the Under Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Ms. Rosemary Di...
Focused on SDG 5, Unicamp has a gender and diversity commission in the human rights executive board. This same board has programs for refugees, accessibility, indigenous peoples and ethnic-racial diversity, aimed at achieving SDG 10. Also, in line with SDG 10, Unicamp has a quota system in the student selection process that sets aside 25% of the vacancies for black and brown candidates, indigenous entrance exams and programs for public high school students.
Unicamp's campuses are being monitored by a territorial master plan based on the 17 SDGs, linked to projects of effic...
4 February 2019, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and its Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth, welcomed ADEC Innovations’ CEO, Mr. James A. Donovan in its offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Discussions with the Division for Multilateral Diplomacy and other divisions were followed by the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding.
ADEC Innovations, as an impact investing company that designs, develops and delivers a diverse data management and technology portfolio of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Solutions, will...
30 November 2018, New York, United States – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York and the New York based music education company Time Ranger Inc. co-hosted a one-day seminar on Music Education and Sustainable Development on Friday, 30 November 2018 in the United Nations Headquarters.
UNITAR firmly believes in the value of inclusive arts, and cooperating with the Time Ranger Inc. offered us a great opportunity to promote sustainable development goals, especially on Good Health and Well-Being (Goal 3), Quality Education (Goal 4) and Redu...