Launched in 2016, UNITAR Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction for Small Island Developing States aims to empower professionals – especially women from small island developing states – to help their countries and communities better prevent, prepare, confront, and recover from disasters.

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As one of the UNITAR Hiroshima Office’s major local engagement initiatives, the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Programme provides an opportunity to learn about the United Nations system as well as careers in diplomacy and international affairs through participation in UNITAR events.  The Programme selects approximately twenty students each year from local high schools in Hiroshima to learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and connect globally with international experts in different fields.

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Launched in 2021, the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme aims to empower high school students in Hong Kong and various cities in China, as well as in other Asia-Pacific countries, to help our world build back better, greener, and stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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UNITAR supports countries to achieve SDG5 by enhancing the skills of their people and empowering them to take locally tailored action. UNITAR – with the support of UN Women and the Cypriot Government – ran a 10-week online training programme from March to May 2021: Gender Empowerment Now: Building Capacity to Mainstream Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment into the Government Policy of Jordan and Lebanon.

Learn about the Gender Empowerment Now Programme in Jordan and Lebanon